Cinematic Techniques in Park Tae-won's “One day of Mr. Gubo as a Novelist"

: Influence from Ulysses

Abstract

　Park Tae-won was an important member of Kuinhoi, which was a Korean modernist literary group of the 1930s. In addition to free-indirect speech, he applied cinematic techniques such as “overlap" and “montage" in his masterpiece, “One day of Mr. Gubo as a novelist". James Joyce's Ulysses was eagerly read by the members of the above-mentioned group. And although Park himself did not fully recognize it in his essay, “Expression, description, technique", in Ulysses there are many passages where those techniques are adopted. The style of Park's work offers a strong resemblance to that of several episodes of Ulysses, especially ‘Calypso', ‘Lotus-Eaters', ‘Aeolus', ‘Scylla and Charybdis' and ‘Wandering Rocks' . In view of these facts, it is highly probable that he was under the influence of Joyce's novel while writing “One day of Mr. Gubo as a novelist".

　The fact that Park Tae-won paid chief attention to cinematic techniques of Ulysses is noteworthy, because his Korean coteries and Japanese contemporary writers regarded it as a psychological novel. “One day of Mr. Gubo as a novelist" of Park is no mean achievement in the history of Korean modernist literature.