蔡万植(1902-1950)是韩国现代文学史中,通过讽刺手法真实反映当时社会现实的代表性作家。在日本对韩国进行殖民地法西斯统治的黑暗时期里,他的小说以十分机智和幽默的笔触,对20世纪30年代以后朝鲜半岛的殖民地现实进行了迂回揭露与抨击,具有强烈的民族意识和历史责任感。《水田的故事》是蔡万植以韩国农民解放后的生活为背景,全面反映农村现实问题的农民小说。因此,考察这篇小说,对于再现韩国农民近现代生活的历史,对于了解蔡万植讽刺文学的价值具有重要意义。 Tsai Wan-sik (1902-1950) is a representative writer in Korea’s modern literary history who realistically reflects the social reality through irony. In the dark period of Japan’s colonial fascism over Korea, his novels witnessed the colonial reality of the Korean Peninsula after the 1930s with a very witty and humorous brushwork, with strong national consciousness and historical responsibility . The story of paddy field is Cai Wanzhi’s peasant novels that fully reflect the problems of rural reality with the background of the life after the liberation of Korean peasants. Therefore, the study of this novel is of great significance for the reproduction of the history of modern life of Korean peasants for understanding the value of Cai Wan-si’s satirical literature.