In this paper, I want to show the accomplishment and the limit of lee tae joon’s literature through the structure and logics of the art in his novel. Lee’s novel was against to the philistinism of modern capitalism. His art was one of the main rea...
In this paper, I want to show the accomplishment and the limit of lee tae joon’s literature through the structure and logics of the art in his novel. Lee’s novel was against to the philistinism of modern capitalism. His art was one of the main reaction to that, so the art had the meaning including recognition and practice of that. But before researches approached that just as a formal skill, so they could not explain of lee’ art well. In lee Tae Joon’s novel, the concept of art includes a contradictory idea for collective nations. Because he understand the unfairness of modern philistinism as the same realities of the colonial, he regarded art as a true practice for peoples who supper from the japanese colonist. Therefore his concept of art combines with nationalism ‘in the beginning’. That regulates the quality and achievement of his art. After the mid 30’s, lee tae joon was in pursuit of art in earnest but the inner world that included enlightenment impetus regulated critical tension of art. His novel was in pursuit of the images and spatial structure which against the cognition of the modern capitalism. however that could not go ahead to the level of ideology. Late in the 30’s, Lee’s novel certainly showed the impetus for enlightenment. But that did not maintain critical insight, so his novel went wrongness.