Because of war, exhausted economy and violently changing political situation, the life style of the survival of the fittest was rambling in Korea early in the 1960's when Kim Seung-ok began to write novels. Moreover, in those days a value system or a social norm from which an individual judges his o...
Because of war, exhausted economy and violently changing political situation, the life style of the survival of the fittest was rambling in Korea early in the 1960's when Kim Seung-ok began to write novels. Moreover, in those days a value system or a social norm from which an individual judges his or her life and behavioral process went to ruin under the indiscreet flood of western civilization. It can be said that people were facing the dilemma that they had to defend themselves from the escapism in the discordance between moral and existence unconditionally, or give themselves up in order to survive. A leader in 1960's, Kim Seung-ok, recognized the reality which laid on the extension line of the 1950's as the crisis of the moral. He thought of such crisis situation as a personal crisis situation, which was not restricted to political or economic confusion, social norm and normal value absence, but threatened self-defence of the individual subject and principle of the unity.
A desire which would not only preserve himself but realize the subject living positively in reality is inherent in Kim Seung-ok's literature world which would seek a new order as literary question form. The desire starts from the study on the subjectivity in the Kim Seung-ok's novels. Kim Seung-ok would express and realize the subject which was neither stable nor self-regulating and didn't have perfect world. In the end the world which the identification of 'self-world' is formalized as a sphere in the Kim Seung-ok's novels gets to be unstable, painful and dizzy, because it is made up of the artificial and nefarious method receiving the negativity of the reality and a stranger. But these subjects having 'self world' are 'exclusive self' negotiating and communicating with the reality constantly so as not to escape from the reality unconditionally but to live in reality actively. There is a significance in that a stranger is regarded as the same subject as himself, and a new cognitive change, so called 'individualism', is come into visible through the reflective self-consciousness and training.
Since 1965 Kim Seung-ok's literature world has brought to change as capitalistic systematic flow was spreading into the whole society according to the industrialization. His novels set the goal at the social reality like an object through the microscopic pursuit of the aspects bringing about human neglection and loss of self rather than the individual's inner world. This change can be confirmed not only in the literary subject but also in the method of the language expression that makes considerable recognition about the life and the every affair. Kim Seung-ok's novels in a transitional period still have a critical mind on the 'ethical crisis' including the crisis of the subject and are not different from the novel at the former term. But after entering into the latter literature in the late 1960's, they show broken figure being different from the former one. Although some of his latter novels used to pay attention to the industrialization, and aspects of the social change revealed in the excellent literary achievements in the 1970's literature, they got to be on the road to a falling tendency by and large.
Kim Seung-ok is a writer who has made modern literary achievement of 'discovery of an individual' in the Korean literature history. Because he would like to resist against the fact that the whole society pressed down the individual's life through the silent violence, he has pursued the value of individuals in his novels. The pursuit of the value of the individual is neither on the simple exposing of the unsatisfaction nor on the satisfaction with self-confident and self-consolatory life. That was an attempt to create order which feels stranger's pain as self pain. He thought it could be possible through the act having constant attention and affection toward the life for an individual to live with humanity and own value. He knew that social system itself had to be dealt as a problem through the individual's prism in order to do that.
Although he lost all writer's passion due to facing up to the stream of the industrialization, and furthermore stopped writing by losing the way toward the authentic literature, his achievements are still great and profound in the Korean literature history.
Because of war, exhausted economy and violently changing political situation, the life style of the survival of the fittest was rambling in Korea early in the 1960's when Kim Seung-ok began to write novels. Moreover, in those days a value system or a social norm from which an individual judges his or her life and behavioral process went to ruin under the indiscreet flood of western civilization. It can be said that people were facing the dilemma that they had to defend themselves from the escapism in the discordance between moral and existence unconditionally, or give themselves up in order to survive. A leader in 1960's, Kim Seung-ok, recognized the reality which laid on the extension line of the 1950's as the crisis of the moral. He thought of such crisis situation as a personal crisis situation, which was not restricted to political or economic confusion, social norm and normal value absence, but threatened self-defence of the individual subject and principle of the unity.
A desire which would not only preserve himself but realize the subject living positively in reality is inherent in Kim Seung-ok's literature world which would seek a new order as literary question form. The desire starts from the study on the subjectivity in the Kim Seung-ok's novels. Kim Seung-ok would express and realize the subject which was neither stable nor self-regulating and didn't have perfect world. In the end the world which the identification of 'self-world' is formalized as a sphere in the Kim Seung-ok's novels gets to be unstable, painful and dizzy, because it is made up of the artificial and nefarious method receiving the negativity of the reality and a stranger. But these subjects having 'self world' are 'exclusive self' negotiating and communicating with the reality constantly so as not to escape from the reality unconditionally but to live in reality actively. There is a significance in that a stranger is regarded as the same subject as himself, and a new cognitive change, so called 'individualism', is come into visible through the reflective self-consciousness and training.
Since 1965 Kim Seung-ok's literature world has brought to change as capitalistic systematic flow was spreading into the whole society according to the industrialization. His novels set the goal at the social reality like an object through the microscopic pursuit of the aspects bringing about human neglection and loss of self rather than the individual's inner world. This change can be confirmed not only in the literary subject but also in the method of the language expression that makes considerable recognition about the life and the every affair. Kim Seung-ok's novels in a transitional period still have a critical mind on the 'ethical crisis' including the crisis of the subject and are not different from the novel at the former term. But after entering into the latter literature in the late 1960's, they show broken figure being different from the former one. Although some of his latter novels used to pay attention to the industrialization, and aspects of the social change revealed in the excellent literary achievements in the 1970's literature, they got to be on the road to a falling tendency by and large.
Kim Seung-ok is a writer who has made modern literary achievement of 'discovery of an individual' in the Korean literature history. Because he would like to resist against the fact that the whole society pressed down the individual's life through the silent violence, he has pursued the value of individuals in his novels. The pursuit of the value of the individual is neither on the simple exposing of the unsatisfaction nor on the satisfaction with self-confident and self-consolatory life. That was an attempt to create order which feels stranger's pain as self pain. He thought it could be possible through the act having constant attention and affection toward the life for an individual to live with humanity and own value. He knew that social system itself had to be dealt as a problem through the individual's prism in order to do that.
Although he lost all writer's passion due to facing up to the stream of the industrialization, and furthermore stopped writing by losing the way toward the authentic literature, his achievements are still great and profound in the Korean literature history.
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