1950년대는 한반도를 충격과 비극으로 몰아넣었던 동족상잔의 비극, 즉 전쟁으로 시작되었다. 전쟁은 인간이 먼 미래로 밀쳐 두었던 죽음과 생존의 문제를 눈앞에서 맞닥뜨리게 한다. 죽음이 난무하는 전장 속에서 인간은 철저히 생물적인 존재가 되고 생과 사는 한 순간에 갈린다. 뿐만 아니라 이는 결과적으로 조국의 분단을 고착화시킴으로써 한국 현대사의 흐름을 크게 결정지었던 사건이다. 이와 같은 전쟁체험은 50년대 및 그 이후의 한국 소설에 있어서 문학적 상상력의 한 원천으로 작용되었다. 현실의식을 갖고 있는 작가들은 전쟁으로 인한 공포와 절망, 자기소외와 인간성 상실 등 사회적 문제를 작품 속에 담기 시작하였다. 이러한 현대사의 흐름아래, 당시의 시대적 상황을 자신만의 독특한 문학적인 방법으로 형상화시키고 있는 작가가 바로 손창섭이다.
Son ChangSeob is one of the Korea’s representative writers in the novelist’s literary history. Most of the existing studies on Son ChangSeob are focus on the characters type in his novel and the psychoanalytic research. In addition, most of the space study about Son ChangSeob’s short stories are not clearly defined the concept of space. And they use the words which is similar to space mixed with space. The purpose of this study is to review the space concept in Son ChangSeob’s short stories more in depth and multifaceted. Chapter Ⅱ proceed with the theoretical review of the space before clarify the meaning of space in Son ChangSeob’s short stories. Because analyzing the works of Son ChangSeob cannot go beyond the scope of postwar literature which is the same as other writers. For this reason, it should be the first to find out the fundamental concept of postwar literature and space problems in the postwar literature. And also to see what kinds of research achievements has been made by examining the thesis of domestic and foreign researchers. Then to determine which position is the space theory placed on for studying the contemporary literature. After that the work of the actual text analysis has been preceded. Except for the small number, there are unique spaces setting in most of Son ChangSeob’s works. A lot of living space which is poor or abnormal can be found easily. Images of space appear repeatedly also hold a large majority. Standing on the relevant aspects of work space, this paper examined the living space and symbolic images of space appeared in the Son ChangSeob’s short stories by turns.In Chapter Ⅲ, the work of synthesizing the stomach contents has been done to analyze the meaning of space in this paper. The question like what is the background and causes that formed living space of these characters and what did the writer want to say through these space settings can be solved. Finally, the meaning of the spatial structure settings in Son ChangSeob’s short stories has been found out. For the research result, this paper is designed to investigate the fictional space of Son ChangSeob which is not free from the pain of the times and the tragic history. But unlike the initial purpose which to explore all of the Son ChangSeob’s short stories, the discussion was developed to fit the theme of this paper. So it will be a limit that did not clarify the meaning of space setting in all short stories. Therefore, I want to leave the even a full-scale study of space about the Son ChangSeob’s short stories to future challenges.