연작소설의 구조미학 - 『서편제』 연작을 중심으로- (The Structure aesthetics of a series of novels- Revolve around Chung-joon Lee's Seopyeonje -)

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초록

우리 소설 문단에서 주목되는 연작소설의 형태가 등장한 것은 60년대 후반쯤이다. 연작소설의 증대는 소재가 안고 있는 갈등의 증폭 때문에 단편 형식이 파괴된 현상이다. 그러기에 연작의 증대는 우리 사회가 안고 있는 갈등의 정도에 비례한다. 그리고 연작소설의 정착이 가능해진 것은, 연작소설 탄생을 위한 문단외적 제약이 상당 부분 해결되었기 때문이다. 이른바 근대 문학 내지 현대 문학의 전통 확립, 발표 매체의 안정성과 지속성, 단행본 발간을 위한 문화적 풍토의 조성 등의 문제가 어느 정도 해결되었다. 또한 작가들이 세계를 바라보고 그것을 표현하는 방식에도 변화가 왔다.
어느 정도 장기적 계획을 세워 작품을 구상하고 오랜 기간 동안 그것을 연재 발표한 후, 단행본으로 출간하는 일이 가능해진 것이다. 연작소설은 바로 이 같은 변화의 시대에 각광을 받게 된 중간적인 형태로서, 여러 편의 독립된 삽화들을 모아 더 큰 하나의 이야기가 되도록 결합시켜 놓은 소설이다. 따라서 연작소설은 단편소설의 형식으로서는 감다하기 어려운 과제들을 놓고, 장르 확대의 가능성을 모색하는 과정에서 등장하였다.

영어초록

The purpose of this article is to analyze the structure of Chung-joon Lee's serial novel Seopyeonje from the mythic and anthropological standpoint. In the analytical process I will try to grasp a structural clue to Chung-joon Lee's way of novel writing in which he seeks life's truth and mystery hidden in appearance. The results are as follows.
Han (Regret). an axis of this novel, is subconsciousness which discontinuous absurdities of life and death are internalized into and an earnest wish to reach perpetuity which can be attained through the sublation of Han. Life is composed of numberless contradictory oppositions. The boy's primal experience is composed of endless oppositions. They include temporal and spatial denotations, such as sky(sun)/earth, sea/land, grave/farm, this world/the world beyond, etc. A paradigm of binary oppositions composes the world of Han and thus life itself is all regretful. To sublimate Han with and through song is the way to the highest sense of sound. Singing is symbolic of a decisive action which transcends life's absurdities and returns to the ontological essence of the regretful life. The decisive action causes an irony in which the singer loses her sight and adheres to song more desperately to the highest sense of sound as the pressure of hunger and poverty is getting tougher. It is because the singer should realize the ultimate value through singing.
The ultimate value is perpetuity which is achieved though replacements. The male singer takes the place of his dead father, the daughter takes the place of her mother who died after hard labor, Thus, the relation between the male singer and the daughter takes the place of the relation between dead father and dead mother. Besides, stepson takes the place of the dead male singer which is left vacant and the relation of brother and sister takes the place of the relation of father and daughter. Society remains permanently through these inversions and replacements. This is the mythical and verbal existence which is realized through singing. The mythical and verbal existence realized in the family community is extended to the village community in ‘A Wander in Seonhakdong’.
Thus, the ultimate value of which is symbolic can be said to be ‘the true value’ of the novel and the first motive which gives life to the characters of the novel. Therefore, this ultimate value is the very power which puts in motion the language as the media of the narrative and what is revealed in such language is the mythic structure of the novel Seopyeonje.

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