이 논문은 1949년 황순원의 전향 사실을 확인하고, 이것이 그의 문학에 어떠한 변화를 야기했는지 살펴보는 하나의 방법으로 『기러기』를 재독하였다. 황순원이 밝힌 탈고일에 따르면 『기러기』는 일제말기에 창작되었으나 발표하지 못하다가 1949년부터 잡지에 게재되었다. 그런데 그의 탈고일 습관을 분석해볼 때, 『기러기』는 과거에 써 둔 것이라 할지라도 전향기의 역사적 조건 속에서 개작된 1949년의 산물이다. 일제말기의 탈고일을 표기함으로써 황순원은 일본어로 친일문학을 발표한 문인들과 대별될 수 있었고, 학생예술좌사건이나 『문학』지에 민중지향적 작품을 수록했던 자칫 `불온`하다고 판단될 수 있는 경력에 적절한 대항기억을 주조할 수 있었다. 그래서 자신의 사상이 `대한민국`에 불온하지 않음을 드러내보여야 했던 전향기에 이 탈고일은 매우 위력적인 안전장치가 되었다. 한편 황순원은 전향기의 국가통제시스템이 형성되는 과정에 심각한 문제의식을 가졌고, 이것이 식민제국의 검열, 치안유지법과 구조적 상동성을 가진다고 인식하였다. 이 때 직접적인 발화가 불가능한 상황 하에서 일제말기 탈고일을 부기하여 현재적인 비판을 우회적으로 시도하였다.

This thesis is a rereading of Gireogi (wild geese) as a way of confirming the conversion of Hwang Soon-won in 1949 and of examining what changes it caused in his literature. According to the date of finishing the manuscript revealed by Hwang Sun-won, Gireogi was written at the end of the Japanese colonial rule, but it was not published, and in 1949 it was published in the magazine. But judging from the analysis of his habit of marking the date of finishing the manuscript, Gireogi, even if it may have been written in the distant past, is the product of the year 1949 adapted in the midst of historical conditions of the conversion period. By marking the date of finishing the manuscript as the end of Japanese imperial rule, Hwang Sun-won was able to be distinguished from the writers who published pro-Japanese literature in Japanese, and was able to coin appropriate resistant memories against the career in which he wrote people-oriented works in the Students Arts Troup or Munhak (literature) magazine that might be judged as “rebellious.” So in the conversion period in which he had to show that his thoughts were never rebellious to the “Republic of Korea,” the date of finishing the manuscript became a powerful safety device. Meanwhile, Hwang Sun-won perceived serious problems about the process in which the national control system in the conversion period was formed and recognized that this had structural homogeny with the colonial empire`s censorship and the Maintenance of the Public Order Act. At this time, under the circumstances where direct utterances were impossible, he attempted to express manifest criticism in a roundabout way by marking the end of Japanese imperialism as the date of finishing the manuscript.