예술가 소설로 본 『바베트의 만찬』

• 영문명: Babette's Feast as an Artist Story
• 발행기관: 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
• 저자명: 진명희(Myung-Hee Jin)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미연구』제25집, 133~154쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2011.12.31

영문 초록

Babette's feast, one of Isak Dinesen's most deft and exquisite works, juxtaposes the self-sacrificing art of Babette's cooking with the health-harming art of the writer's creation. Babette's feast, in which theprotagonist invests all her lottery money, signifies a kind of communion and an Easter mass which transubstantiate the table guests into new beings of joy and bliss. At the feast every participant experiences, if temporarily, a happy communion of self-extension and ecstasy. Babette's self-consuming feast alludes implicitly to the ideal reading experience through which the possible reader eats up every letter and leave of a book and nourishes him/herself on them. In this story, Babette's dainties are transformed into the writer's creation. Babette is the mouthpiece and double of Dinesen's integral creation and devotion. Both Babette and Dinesen let themselves eaten up by their self-enjoying consumers. This feast of self-sacrifice is rather comic in that it enhances a sense of community based on communion. Through the feast every villager purges his/her repressed and silent past and comes into the light of talking and community. For this comic effect, the author employs such narrative techniques as fairy tales, fantasies and biblical allegories that transcend the boundary of verisimilitude. These narrative techniques provide the writer with a point of comic relief. So Babette's Feast , a fantastic product of Dinesen's imagination, is quite purely a comic and fanciful work, originally intended to be evanescently light as if played on a flute.

목차

Ⅰ. 들어가는 말

Ⅱ. 아이작 디네센의 예술적 욕망 구현

Ⅲ. 끝맺는 말

인용문헌

Abstract

키워드

아이작 디네센 바베트의 만찬 예술가 소설 희극적 감각 영교 Isak Dinesen Babette's feast artist story comic sense communion