유현목 각색 영화에 나타난 이야기 정체성 고찰 - 원작소설의 영화적 전유를 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study investigates the ‘narrative identity’ shared by original novels and movies based on movies adapted by Yu Hyeonmok. As a method of analyzing the text, the interpretation theory proposed by Paul Ricoeur was applied. Ricoeur said, “the world is composed of symbols and interpretation is to unravel symbols. Narrative identity means identity created by a story of someone. The author discovers his or her identity while writing a story while the readers discover their identities by identifying with the characters while reading the story. In hermeneutics, a reader’s reading is seen as an event. Text is a product of creating a story based on a historical event, and interpretation of text is to clarify the symbolic meaning. In this process, readers look back on the history and find their own identities. Narrative identity shared by an original novel and adapted film can be examined by applying the text interpretation theory to the relevant adaptation process, and this allows us to approach the essence of the story. Adaptation as an event is carried out because of clear determination of the adapter. In this study, I compared the novels <Obaltan> and <Martyr> and the movies based on these novels and directed by Yu Hyeonmok by applying the theory of narrative identity. <Obaltan> depicts a life in which an individual identity is damaged in the desolate postwar environment. In <Martyr>, the protagonist who experiences identity crisis through events that took place during the war regains ethical identity through religious faith and humanism. Both stories deal with the catastrophe of the Korean War. In other words, they visualized historical events through fictitious stories. The history is formed into images through metaphor and symbolism, which are interpreted by the reader, adapter, audience, and analyst. Historical fiction is important as it can recall the neglected past to the present. It differs from historical record of facts. History is record of facts but becomes blurry in memory as times passes. Fictitious stories can be always brought out and reconstructed because stories convey life and words of a human being. The story today that revealed that the modern history of Korea is based on oblivion and distortion is awaiting our interpretation as a grand symbol. I believe one of the roles of literary research is to find the point at which the lives of real people and history meet based on fictitious text, i.e. literature and films, and unravel the relevant metaphors and symbols.