17세기 동아시아 소설의 여성 서사 비교 - <운영전>·<圓圓傳>·<好色一代女>의 경우 -

Abstract

Woonyoung-jeon, a Korean classic novel in the 17th century, dealing with the theme of ‘free love’, raised a significant issue of ‘freedom and oppression’ by assigning the leading role to a court lady. Yuanyuan-zhuan圓圓傳 written by Lu Ciyun陸次雲 and Koshoku Ichidai Onna好色一代女 written by Ihara Saikaku井原西鶴, Chinease and Japanese representative contemporary novels, also layed the heroine in the center of the work. I compared the reality and desire of the heroine of these three works and the vision of three authors. Yuanyuan-zhuan chose the traditional third person point of view. But it failed to grasp the woman’s life and fate delicately in spite of claiming to be a biography of the heroine, because the author could not view the problem from the perspective of the heroine. Woonyoung-jeon and Koshoku Ichidai Onna, on the other hand, told the woman's life with a voice of the heroine. In case of Woonyoung-jeon, it showed the process of realization and frustration of desire from the perspective of the heroine, and transformed an old motif of ‘forbidden love’ to a meaningful social subject of ‘the freedom of the being that was far from free’. In case of Koshoku Ichidai Onna, it also looked back and reflected on a woman’s various sexual experiences from a viewpoint of the heroine, by which ‘human foolish lust’ could be extended to the subject of ‘the fate of human’. Thanks to confessional narrative from the first person point of view of Woonyoung-jeon and Koshoku Ichidai Onna, the woman’s narrative in East Asian novels was able to have a format of telling woman’s life and fate in a woman’s own voice.