李鈺의 문학에 나타난 자기 패배의 글쓰기

Abstract

This study is to reveal the meaning of self-defeating finals in 「Ji-Ju-Bu」 and 「Hu-Jo-Bu」 of Rhee Ok. Firstly, it finds the writing period of these two works. They had been written before persecution of restoration policy on the basis of records of 「Je-Kyeong-Kum-So-Kwon-Hu」. Then it finds the writing aspect of self-defeating. First of all, in terms of that the object of rebuking is worms, it finds that meaning. Rhee Ok appealed that the humble things can be a good object of human recognition, criticizing human existing concepts. There is a subject in 「Ji-Ju-Bu」 that there are various laws to bind human life, so human carefully should not go astray, expressing many worms in an allegorical way. The meaning of self-defeating final is to be considered with two layers. This self-defeating final does not show the consciousness of the writer, but the writer’s truth, considered more serious by Rhee Ok as his main point of view. Another layer is the high strategics of his writing to attract and persuade readers. The defeat of Lee-Mister looks the defeat of Rhee Ok, in real it is the defeat of existing human concept of that time. The defeat of writer means that worms is equal to human position. Human does not become lower existence by higher level of existence, but stands in the same position as the worms, recognizing his own defaults thanks to the lesson of humble things. The world that Rhee Ok intended to reveal, even with self-denial, is a ‘Mul-A-Kyun-Si’(which means equal viewing self as the things) and the true severe reality bounded with complicated nets. Rhee Ok tried the resistant writing, choosing the way of pulling himself down, of revealing the truth of the world. He chose the way of criticizing himself, twisted common thinking, put the allegorism of criticizing the reality in a secret way. The revelation of humble things by self-denial shows the new direction of his writing.