1960년 전후 박경리의 글쓰기에 나타난 역사의식 -『내 마음은 호수』,『노을진 들녘』을 중심으로

Abstract

This study set out to investigate Park Kyung-ni`s political senses and historical consciousness in her writings related to 4·19 Revolution, which is one of the historic events that happened since she started writing. The 4·19 Revolution took place when she published her novel titled My Mind Is a Lake serially in Chosun Ilbo. On the same page as her serial novel, she published a long writing to mourn the many deaths of young students and ask for no more victims after the event broke out. In April, 1962, she wrote a column that sharply criticized the "return of Syngman Lee," who fled to the United States, on the front page of Kyunghyang Sinmun where she published another novel titled The Field at Sunset serially. Those days she worked for Seoul Newspaper and Catholic Newspaper as a reporter. It was during the period that she included scenes of political abduction and torture, which were not found in her previous works, in My Mind Is a Lake and detailed descriptions of "demonstrations before Gyeongmudae" where the 4·19 Revolution broke out in The Field at Sunset. However, she was the widow of a man who died serving in prison for leftwing ideology. Experiencing the Korean War, she realized the nothingness of political ideas. Later she had to endure the hardship of prison life under political oppression. There is no denying that those experiences must have worked as a huge obstacle to her revealing her political consciousness in her novels.