근대 소설사에서 한글 전도문서의 위상 (The Status Of Korean Christian Tracts In History of Korea Modern Novel)

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초록

이 글은 1890년대 초반 삼문출판사에서 간행한 한글 전도문서가 근대소설사에서 차지하는 위상을 밝히는 것을 목적으로 한다. 삼문출판사는 전도를 위해 다양한 전도문서를 출판했다. 그 중, 『장원양우상론』, 『인가귀도』, 『묘축문답』 등은 문답을 통해 교리를 전하는 양식의 서사문학이다.
이들 작품은 서양인 중국 선교사가 선교를 위해 한문으로 저술한 것을 서양인 한국 선교사가 우리말로 번역한 것이다. 1880년대 후반 근대전환기신문에 실린 문답체 양식의 서사가 근대 소설사의 첫 자리를 찾이하는 것을 염두에 두면 1880년대 초반 삼문출판사에서 출판된 문답체 양식의 전도문서들은 주목할 만하다. 이 글에서는 근대 전환기 신문 논설의 문답체양식의 서사와 이들 전도문서들이 직․간접적인 영향 관계에 있음을 논증했다. 우선 양식의 특성도 그러하거니와 문답체 양식의 서사가 실린 근대초기의 신문들이 주로 삼문출판사와 관련된 기독교 계 신문이라는 점을논증의 근거로 삼았다. 기독교 전도인들이 한글 글쓰기를 통해 기층 민중들을 ‘신자’로 끌어 안으려 한 것에서, 근대전환기 지식인들은 한글 글쓰기를 통해 기층 민중들을 ‘민족’ 혹은 ‘국민’으로 포섭하는 가능성을 찾은 것이다. 근대 소설의 의의를 자국어 글쓰기를 통해 ‘국민’을 호명하는 것에서찾을 때 근대 소설의 형성 과정에서 한글 전도문서의 역할은 간과할 수 없을 것이다.

영어초록

The goal of this paper is to review the relative importance of the korean evangelism document published by Sammun publishing company for gospel preaching in the early 1890s. ‘Dialogue between the two friends Zhang and Yuan’, ‘Leading the family in the right way’ and ‘Conversation with a Temple Keeper’ are a kind of the narrative literature in the form of questions and answers to introduce a doctrine. One of them, ‘Dialogue between the two friends Zhang and Yuan’ recounts twelve meetings between a Christian believer and one of his neighbors and they discuss the major themes of Christian doctrine. The writer places the dialogues firmly within a context. And in ‘Leading the family in the right way’, Mr. Lee has religious beliefs after he met missionary in church. This novel has rich contents because it is a work of doctrine emphasized more than the narrative.
Also, in ‘Conversation with a Temple Keeper’, christian missionary reasons with a temple keeper on beliefs and he finally persuade a temple keeper to have christian beliefs logically. Significantly, these novels influenced on the articles, which had interlocutory style and put in a newspaper in the late 1980s. As written style, the chinese novels written by western missionary living in China were translated into Korean language by western missionary living in Korea. Considering a great deal of weight of narrative literature written in question and answer form published by newspaper at the modern turning point in the late 1880s, the evangelism documents published by Sammun publishing company were worthy of notice. This paper demonstrated indirect and direct relationships between the narrative editorial of newspaper in the form of questions and answers and these novels.
Above all, Considering a description in the form of questions and answers of the newspaper, the early newspapers can be regarded as a missionary newspaper connected with Sammun publishing company.
Though korean language writing, a missionary draw the people as believers and at the modern turning point an intellectual have a possibility to draw the people as a people. Considering the meanings of modern novel as calling names of a people, a role of korean evangelism document can not overlook.

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