Previous studies about Oh Young Soo(1909-1979) mostly focused on the lyric characteristics and naturalism of his novels. Recently, there`s a tendency to read his writings from the viewpoint of ecological criticism. This suggests that the novelist is being researched in a new direction other than before. The purpose of this study is to reconsider Oh Young Soo`s literature. For the purpose, this researcher examined how the novelist started his career as a literary man and how his idea of literature was formed, especially from the viewpoint of genealogy. Underlying the novelist`s literature were so-called the Greater East Asia War(the Pacific War) and his own view of the world which was opposed to the foresaid violent image of the world. Anti-modernism, anti-urbanism, homeland, nature and life were the main themes of his literature. Ideologically, Oh Young Soo belonged to the genealogy of organicism that was pursued by Kim Dong Ri, Cho Yeon Hyeon and so on. But unlke them, Oh Young Soo practiced non-separation between literature and life by returning to the farm. This is because his literature became what was considered from the viewpoint of ecological criticism. Anti-modernism found in Oh Young Soo`s literature was to criticize modernity by means of the beauty of nature. In this sense, his literature might be criticized as an epigone of aesthetic modernity. But since he tried to embody his own agricultural view of the world, his literature can be reevaluated as having led ecologism. In association, much attention may be paid to the novelist`s inner sense of place suggested in his literal works. Contrast between homeland and city, place and space or experience and practice is an effective way to explain Oh Young Soo`s literature. His literature oriented a place that could arouse an inner sense of homeland or existence. In other words, his literature oriented and tried to maintain so-called the world of collective experience. Keeping in mind a certain permanent, mythical place he mentally experienced in the homeland, Oh Young Soo provided a way to another place that could be truly meaningful while enduring unfamiliarity and non-humanity he faced in the city. or Oh Young Soo, the power to create literal works was closely related with his own inner sense of places of insideness. On conclusion, his novels orient lyricism about the collective experience of place and stories that share such experience.