审视时代的洞察力与内心世界的深度照明--韩国现代作家廉尚燮的殖民地小说创作论

A Critique of the Colonization Novels of Yom Sang-seop:Insight into the Era and Reflection of the Inner World

廉尚燮是韩国现代著名小说家,创作了众多现实主义小说作品,刻画了形形色色的人物,较为客观地反映了日本殖民主义统治下韩国殖民地社会的方方面面。这集中体现在其代表作长篇小说《万岁前》和《三代》以及这两篇力作面世间隙,即1922年7月至1931年1月间的系列长篇小说作品中。作家通过对人物内心世界细致入微的描绘,拓展了韩国小说创作的一个崭新境界,在韩国小说史上具有不可替代的地位与功绩。

Yom Sang-seop is a renow ned modern Korean novelist,w ho has w ritten many realistic novels,depicting various characters and objectively reflecting all the aspects of Korean society under Japanese colonization. The features of his novels are show n mainly by his tw o masterpieces: Man se jun and Sam dae,as w ell as a series of novels w ritten betw een July 1922 and January 1931. This article illustrates Yom 's neutral,objective and panoramic depiction of the colonized society from four aspects: 'an ‘objective'record of modern society','voice of modern society from various characters','the mentality of modern public- a novelistic concern'. Through nuanced descriptions of the inner w orld of the characters,Yom brought Korean novel to an unprecedented level,thus w inning himself an unshakeable and irreplaceable status in the history of Korean novels.