قراءة في رواية "القزم يطلق الكرة الصغيرة"ثقافة المعاناة وسيميولوجية المفارقة

• 영문명: The culture of suffering and Semiology of Irony: Perusal of a Korean novel “A dwarf launches a little ball”
• 발행기관: 한국아랍어아랍문학회
• 저자명: Doaa Ghareeb
• 간행물 정보: 『아랍어와 아랍문학』13집 2호, 51~113쪽, 전체 63쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 기타동양어문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2009.10.30

영문 초록

Irony is wrought throughout the novel “A Dwarf Launches a Little Ball”. From the absurd misnomers of place-names to that of the dwarf who is the head of the family with which the story is based. In order to convey the level of which the family and, implicitly, the society, has come to the writer has employed not one but three narrators. In addition he makes use of the stream-of-consciousness method and the discontinuous nature of time, the very essence of memory. This chronological disruption creates a tension parallel to the state of tension in the novel. The dwarf is Kim Bu-li, the head of a family living in an impoverished neighborhood in the outskirts of Seoul, ironically named Happiness District, Paradise County. When the neighborhood goes into redevelopment, the dwarf's home is demolished, and with it, the very foundation of his family's life. What ensue are a tragic tale of economic disempowerment and the resulting loss of human dignity. Through the eyes of the dwarf's three children as they struggle desperately to restore the shattered fragments of their lives, Cho Se-hui sketches the seedy underbelly of a society in the violent throes of industrialization. And the writer makes many characters appear to provide readers with explanations on accidents in more multidimensional and multi-faceted way, not in a single-focused one. By doing so, this novel can restore the voices of the others who are the suppressed in this society. From the fact that the writer tries to deliver a panoramic view of the story through a dwarf who can not be normal, we can steal a glance at the writer’s intention to trespass the line of taboo. The writer uses a dwarf as a symbol of violation, unfolding the stories from the dwarf’s point of view to make readers experience the reality stained with the sheer alienation and hardships the dwarf has gone through. In this regard, we can say A Dwarf Launches a Little Ball connotes an epic strategy that aims at Anti-identification. When it was first published in 1978, “A Dwarf Launches a Little Ball” was passionately embraced by the public. Through the enduring figure of the dwarf, the work managed to give shape to the prevailing sense of individual despair in a climate of political oppression and acute economic contradictions. More than two decades later, it remains one of the most powerful indictments of modern society to emerge from Korean literature.

키워드

Dwarf Irony Multiple Narrators Suffering Exploitation Symbolization Stream-of-consciousness Semiology