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KMID : 0366519980180010201
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Annual Bulletin Seoul Health
1998 Volume.18 No. 1 p.201 ~ p.230
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A Study on the Historical Novel -Park Tae Won’s Kabo Peasantry War-
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Ahn Sook-Won
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Abstract
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The historical novel is a hybrid genre using reality and imagination. It helps us to increase our historical consciousness. It’s more utilitarian than any other novel. Park Tae Won’s novel, Kobo Peasantry War includes an idea against the anti-communism of South Korea(Kobo is one of sixty names according to Chinese Calendar which has each year’s name and repeats it every 60S). But it’s famous for the characterization and social totality in Korean history in 1894. In order to do that, Park described the international political situation, ruling class and the people‘s lives in three dimensions; vertical/horizontal, up/down, and inward/outward. He created a type, 0 sang Min, who is one of the peasantry, too. The novel has been evaluated by many critics for a long time. It also discusses many issues. It showed a historical vision through peasantry war to Korean survival which rejected the ruling class and foreign enemies. It represented instigation and radical discourse due to Stalin rhetoric. It also divided the enemies of the two parts. The parts consisted of the ruling class and foreign enemies. This resulted in the binary opposition of world viewpoints. Park worte that historical novel to reveal the peasantry`s resistance. He expressed their anger and revenge. I call it poetics of anger and revenge. I can’t help discussing this novel which degraded the aesthetic value as a literary text. It’s Park’s dilemma and our obligation to write more about the Korean literary history until the unification of the Korean peninsular.
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KEYWORD
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Historical novel
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