법률이야기(legal story)의 정치성과 가족주의 이데올로기 - 최찬식 신소설을 중심으로 -

Focusing on the narrative structure of Choi Chansik's Shinsosul (a new-style novel) which represents the perception of law from courtroom stories of the time, this paper argues that a 'judicial improvement‘ under the politics of the Japanese Government General had an intention to implant imperial law and order, and nurture national grounding in Korea. In shinsosul, law often punishes antagonists who try to threaten the foundation of family, while leading to family members' reunion in the process of trials against them. The law described in Choi Chansik's shinsosul also empowers a modern family to pursue stability and solidarity among the members, and strengthens a family system. Based on this orientation, Choi Chansik's shinsosul shows that the value of family could be recovered under the politics of Government General with colonial law and order. In addition, Korean people could join the empire as imperial people also within the judicial protection. While Choi Chansik's shinsosul celebrates the birth of a new family in a nation-state, the resettled family and revisited familism under the colonial law and order reveals how his fantasy was created by blind loyalty for imperial law, and how he was captivated by the Government General's political plan based on a judicial improvement.