This paper aims to reveal sense on the former KAFP writers?s two aspects confronting realities in the turning point. To demonstrate the aim, this paper expresses two aspects confronting realities in novels of Han Seol-ya and Kim Nam-cheon. Two writers had developed methods against the logic of Japanese Imperialism in the turning point. Thus a study on these two writers in this period is important because they can show ways against the logic of state.
After the Sino-Japanese War, Japanese Empire compelled to assign individuals to state. These ways were the face as seen from the front, signifying face that is despotic. According to Deleuze and Guattari, one of the two limit-figures of faciality, signifying face is that the black hole as signification is on the white wall as subjectification. In this way, Japanese Empire called individuals the nation.
Under the logic of Japanese state which is signifying face, some writers were voluntarily subject to that logic. For example, In Jeong-sik accepted the logic of Japanese state as a reality and thus claimed that Japanese Empire gave rights when the nation colonized people in Korea. And he wished that Korean agricultures were extricated from backwardness by Japanese Empire. In this way, he was voluntarily subject to the logic of state in the turning point.
However, some writers had progressed ways against the logic of Japanese state. One of those, Han Seol-ya revealed that contradictions in that logic had in fact excluded some alienated people, though he claimed same rights for all people. And he was maintaining class subjects that he had believed in his past life. In this way, he criticized the logic of Japanese state in the turning point. Yet, he expressed the desire to include alienated people in the course of critique. Thus, he could subsume the logic of state, if it included alienated people. He didn’t reject the logic of state itself, but admitted other logic of state. That is to say, he deleted signifying face that was the logic of Japanese Empire, but drew subjective face that was the other of figures of faciality though it is opposite to signifying face.
On the contrary, Kim Nam-cheon explored the logic of state and the logic of negation and kept on renewing his subjects. Thus he performed self-probing in relation with the other and realities. Under his self-probing, he escaped from the logic of state in the turning point and thus went forward in his ways. In this way, he dismantled the face that is a kind of the logic of state. Then he became a probe-head that performed a veritable defacialization. By becoming a probe-head himself, he could present the way to escape from the logic of state.