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Kim Hak-iron Novels Of The 20th Century Myth "

Posted on:2008-06-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S R YinFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360215991932Subject:Asian and African Language and Literature
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Kim Xuetie (1916~2001), a Korean National Minority modern writer, had a legendary life experience and creation career. He composed the heroic epic of "an East-Asian organic whole"revolutionary fighters based on North Korea, China and Japan. He visualized the life and the struggle of North Korean Volunteer soldiers'. And he set up the milestone for the brave North Korean Volunteers warriors who were treated coldly because of the factionalism. The charm of Kim Xuetie creation is based on the revolutionary optimism's humor and the pungent satire. In a word he has created the multi-dimensional and opening narrative structure based on the mass literature.From the spring of 1964 to May, 1965 Kim Xuetie created the novel-the 20th century myth secretly. This book aimedto criticize the Chinese Great Leap Forward movement and the personality cult of Mao Zedong. His latent: writing the 20th century myth is the representative works in Chinese latent literature.Kimproposed a series of social issues about the nationalism, authoritative principle, political authority and remnants of feudalistic society appearing in the early years of the new nation in his works. And he made a multiple perspectives analysis about the individual worship for Mao Zedong, simultaneously he carried on the pungent satire about the reasons for this kind of chaotic time. This article uses "the latent writing" and "cuts off in the relapse" to analyze the theme and the art value of this novel.The novel-the 20th century myth criticizes China's counter- right wing struggles, the Great Leap Forward movement and the crazy for a while modern age of making the god movement occurring in the mid-20th century. And this novel dared to expose degeneration of human nature under the political struggle and the economical collapse. But at the same time, the works also proposed the hope for the new social and the return of human nature, and set up the revolutionary optimism model.This works also has the latent writing's inherent anti-reality characteristics. Using the art expression means, such as the irony, humor, satire and imitation, Kim Xuetie disintegrated the political authority, and alternately narrated two viewpoints. Furthermore he affirmed the historical development inevitability and emphasizedpeopte's strength as the historical main body.Generally speaking, thenovel-the 20th century myths is the representative work in the latent literature which appears in our country earliest. This novel together with "Concentration camp Literature", and "DifferentPolitical view Literature" belongs to a socialism literature circle. Therefore, this novel is Kim Xuetie's literature essence of critique spirit. And more important, it is playing a continuation-opens rolein the Korean minority literary arena during its ebb tide time (1957-1976).
Keywords/Search Tags:Kim Xue tie, the 20th the century myth, "the latent writing", "cuts off in the relapse", "imitation"
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