Spatial Imagery and Northern Writing in the Blue Island

Abstract

Anatoly Kim’s collection of novels, The Blue Island, takes Sakhalin Island as its geographical background and constructs a unique literary spatial image. From the perspective of literary geography, this paper analyzes the multiple connotations of Sakhalin Island as a geographical space, cultural space and spiritual space, as well as explores the characteristics of its northern writing. The study found that Sakhalin Island is not only a symbol of multi-ethnic integration, carrying the writer’s utopian ideals, but also a spiritual carrier for the writer to fight against death and pursue immortality. Through the spatial narrative of virtual and real coexistence, Kim completed the cultural reconstruction and philosophical thinking of the Korean ethnic group in the northern border.