「薛公瓚傳」의 筆禍와 怪異的 文學觀 (The Affair Brought on by “Seolgongchanjun” and a Strange View of Literature)

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초록

이 글은 「薛公瓚傳」의 필화사건의 원인을 작품 내에서 究明해 보려는 시도였다. 문헌의 기록을 바탕으로 「설공찬전」을 怪異라는 평가에서 비롯되었다고 보았다. 怪異의 연원은 建國神話와 「老巫篇」을 평가한 金富軾·李奎報·一然의 문학관과 관련되며, 기준은 ‘怪力亂神’에서 찾았다. 이규보는 「老巫篇」에서 巫敎를 怪異로 인식하였으며, 「설공찬전」 또한 무교적 성격으로 인하여 筆禍가 야기되었다고 보고, 이를 怪異的 文學관이라 하였다.
다음은 「설공찬전」의 巫敎的 作品內容과 筆禍와의 因果關係를 중심으로 고찰하여, 人間보다 巫神이, 유교사회보다 저승사회가, 황제보다 염왕이 절대적이라는 것이 筆禍의 重要要因으로 파악하였다. 「설공찬전」의 筆禍는 이후의 소설에 巫神 중심의 작품이 창작되지 않는 계기가 되었으며, 巫敎觀念과 관련된 보조인물도 부정적 성격을 지닌다는 것을 설명하였다.

영어초록

This paper attempts to investigate the causes of the affair brought on by “Seolgongchanjun”. In the light of “Paegwanjabgi” and “Jungong- sillok”, we can conclude that Confucianists regard “Seolgongchanjun” as a strange novel. Kim, Bu-sik, Lee, Gyu-bo and Il Yeon recognize the novels about strangeness, extraordinarily strong men, transgressing moral law and ghosts as dangerous things. For instance, Lee, Gyu-bo treats shamanism as one of things strange in “Nomoopeon” and thinks that this strangeness is also discovered in “Seolgongchanjun”. Accordingly, it is natural to see that “Seolgongchanjun” is based upon ‘the strangeness' which is deviated from Confucianism and brings on the affair.
Considering the causal relationship between the contents of “Seolgongchanjun” and the affair brought on by it, we claim that the affair is due to the following descriptions: in the novel, shamans are said to be superior to human, the world beyond is said to be better to live than the world of Confucianism, and the King of Hades is said be more absolute than the King of this world. We also conjecture that a reason of stopping copying the novel is related to the contents of the novel which brings on the affair. The affair brought on by “Seolgongchanjun” has much influence on writing novels since then: the novels in which shamans have important roles are not created any more and the characters representing shamanism are portrayed to be negative.
This paper, contrary to the previous studies in which the causes of the affair brought on by “Seolgongchanjun” are dealt with as political conflicts, has significance in the sense that it investigates the causes of the affair, focusing on the contents of “Seolgongchanjun”.

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