Abstract

The purpose of this study is to reveal which character makes short novels written by Lee Tae Jun to the impression as the paintings by Renoir, Cézzanne, Gogh. This paper analyses the relationships between his novels, his theory of paintings and theory of literature. This study shows that his short novels are influenced his theory of paintings and literature. Lee Tae Jun gave great emphasis on all kinds of arts description as the main essential elements. And he put emphasis upon all kinds of arts expression of painter or writer's individuality. So that his short novels as like as O-Mong-Nyee, Dal-Bam, Ga-Ma-Gyue, etc are composed stylish, imaginary, fine sentences more than narratively accidents. He had expressed bad feelings, wrongdoing, miserable things with bright, beautiful, warmful scenes in his short novels. Lessing insists paintings are not shown continuously to the spectators substantially in his book Laokoon. Because unpleasant feelings are continuous in spectators's mind received from suspended images. And the specific character of short novels written by Lee Tae Jun are composed spacial arrangement with episodic accidents not related dependence of effect on causes. This is the specific characters of painting. That's why short novels written by Lee Tae Jun gave us inspirations of impressionist's figure paintings or landscapes. In the middle of 1930's some of the pictorial beauty of a short novels are produced in Korean peninsula. A violent gale of Fascism as the situation of the world came driven on that time in Korean peninsula. Some of Korean writers could not produce distinct novels with narrative. Because those are based historical vision and confidence of the subjects.