Modern City, realization and frustration of a long dream on maze - Focusing on the detective novel of Kim Nae-Seong, ���Ma-In���

This study was aimed at analysizing the diverse aspects of new self-consciousness of modern city-space, creating shapes of detective. In detective novels, detective have good command of demanding inductive reasoning and scientific knowledge to solve the crimes, because they had been based on the genre pattern of the western classical detective novels. The strained relations between inductive reasoning and crimes, is valid for crime-space. This study makes a feature of emphasizing the way one thinks of insight not the representations of modern city-space in ���Ma-In���. The number of crimes in 1930`s Gyengsong is on the increase, variety of provinces of the modernity be piled up one on another. It is no accident that detective novel is coeval with the construction of the new housing form in modern city. The shape of detective is entirely the product of modern city. First, on the theory of Tuan, figuratively speaking, ���space��� means movement, opening and threat, on the other hand, ���place��� means quiescence, safety and stability. That's detective's share of work to convert space to place through reveal a secret of space. ���Ma-In���'s main character, Yu-Bulan, conceiving detective, communes with city-space in the concrete. He traced not only city's surface but also city���s glittering facade, makes a strong appearance of the ���Flaneuse���, collector, thinking machine, is defined as an his ability to figures out the cryptic clues with independent rationality and individuality. However, the Japanese colonial period in the 1930`s, physical conditions of modern city is allowed as a mere formality, but practical experience and edifice, ���substance of place���, is in poor condition. As a major text, Gyengsong that is no such thing as a purely specific origin and identity, that could well are very disorderly to decipher the codes of space elements. Both writer and main character are searching not only for reality, but what lies beyond this, because so many things in their own age has failed them. Korean detective novels in the 1930`s was fated to be on the horns of a dilemma that be enforced to engages in creative writing on poor setting of the story. This study tries to display the distinctive feature of the detective novels in the 1930`s through the analysis of ���Ma-In���. To study this character of ���Ma-In��� can be a try to find the identity of Korean detective novels. The readers can find out features of the Korean detective novel through the indigenous detective novel in 1930`s. In conclusion, ���Ma-In��� is the story of ���detective of end in failure���. Detective can't rescue the a lot of victims, not find out crime-tricks. In some way, it is natural for him to failure, because space of ���Ma-In���is made up transcendental cognition