바보의 신화화 - 김석범 소설의 바보형 인물

• 영문명: Mythification of an Idiot - The idiotic characters in Kim Seokbum's novels
• 발행기관: 한국문학회
• 저자명: 이재봉(Lee Jae-Bong)
• 간행물 정보: 『한국문학논총』제34집, 235~267쪽, 전체 33쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 한국어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2003.08.01

영문 초록

The novels of Kim Seok-bum, who is a Korean-Japanese novelist, have unique characters. They are idiotic characters appearing from his first novel to the latest novel, Hwasando. Continuously appearing with important meanings in novels, they have been attracting many critics's interest. Until now both domestic and foreign critics can be said only to discover the image of the people and its resistant meaning through the idiots. However the important thing is that the time and space is Jeju Island around the 4·3 incident. At that time Kim Seok-bum was not in Jeju Island and the settings of his novels are based on his collection of data and materials in Japan and the witnesses of those who ran away to Japan for survival. The resistance may differ from that on the scene, and thus the idiots are thought to have metaphorical and symbolic meanings. The idiotic character usually gives a laugh to the readers through his or her ridiculous behavior. Undoubtedly the laugh is not simple, but it may be the laugh in tears as in the characters of Kim You-jung or be the laugh commenting and attacking the evil conducts or the distorted views of others in Chae Man-sik's Satires. Or it may be the cannibal laugh pursuing the liveliness of life by overthrowing the formal authority and order. However the idiotic characters of Kim Seok-bum are different from them. Unlike the common idiots who are be laughed by the misjudgement of their false desire or its results, the idiots in the novels of Kim Seok-bum are the characters of the mythic world in which human beings and nature are in unity, no conflict with the world, and no distinction between the seriousness and the absurdity. They cannot help being the idiots in the world of conflicts and contrasts risking their life and in the world filled with extreme killings. Therefore they don't give laughs to readers in the end. Rather, they are the idiots in the Foucault's meaning who place deeply in the reader's mind and stimulate the forgotten truth acutely. They are recognizers and messengers of the truth that common people do not recognize or forget in the everyday life. For example, the readers can't laugh at Mandeok who is dragged to the execution ground denying the policeman's order to kill the spies because they are not human beings. Rather he is the character by whom people cannot help looking back on their life and thinking of the true meaning of 4·3 situations once again. And thus the idiots in the novels of Kim Seokbum do not die. The swelled old man in Kwandeokjung is alive in the form of rumor even if his role in the novel is nearly over. And Yongbaek in The Shit and the Freedom and seizes the consciousness of Sung Tae-il to the end and controls his behavior. Also Mandeok in Mandeok's Ghost Stories becomes a living ghost and appears among people at any time. Like various kinds of ghosts created by Jeju history, Mandeok, as a mythic being, makes himself known incessantly in people's stories or in people's consciousness.

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바보의 신화화 - 김석범 소설의 바보형 인물

1. 문제제기

2. 김석범의 존재조건과 창작의 의미

3. '바보'의 일반적 의미와 김석범 소설의 바보형 인물

4. 마무리

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