『어우야담』 소재 인물담 연구(2)

Abstract

You Mong In shaped his characters on which his unique recognition as a writer were projected using a variety of cross-over techniques in anecdotes to form character discourses. This paper was pursued to analyze same character discourses and similar-type character discourses among all the character discouses from Er Wu Ya Dam, and evaluate the formative meaning of the person in question and his recognition reflected in it. Character discourses for Kim Si Seup and Jung Sa Lyong were dealt with as ones which have the highest frequency in repeating same character discourses. A meaning code to penetrate Kim Si Seup's character discourses was 'five age/ arrogance,' which was due to his genius and eccentricity his whole life threw certified clues about. While Kim Si Seup's haughty attitude made himself as a 'genius' character isolated from the world, his poetic prose as an accumulative collection of his life unexpectedly resulted in ironical situation to make it possible for his descendents to commune with him forever. Jung Sa Lyong character discourses were focused on in view of his "poetic prose" and 'luxuriant life.' His luxury came to be a driving force to make possible his relationship with great authorities, which decisively played influential roles to the whole scheme of his poetic proses. After his death, however, there were doubts that his secular behaviors could be related to the whole scheme of his poetic proses and his works might not be genuine. Though he was able to enjoy his luxury and his poetic authority with the support of great masters, his snobbish desire spontaneously came to be exposed into the world after he finished his life. You Mong In can be thought to juxtapose, on latent purpose, the contrastive life and posthumous evaluation of two contemporary poets, Kim Si Seup and Jung Sa Lyong, who secured the highest reputation, by repeating discourses related to them. Hence, You Mong In reflected his relative viewpoint of life to both characters that we can't easily reach the conclusion about what is happiness or unhappiness in our life and how success or failure can be defined. Among similar-type character discourses were examined the discourses of characters whose reputation have strong effect upon their conducts. These character discourses were composed of conduct anecdotes basically related to a character in question. A basic standard of their conduct was usually related to a cause. A cause was a solidified guide to them and they were unable to tolerate a rule of conduct without cause. But since a cause couldn't help being variable, it was liable to be revealed into egoistic dogmatism according to the situation; rightness can be wrongness, and vice versa. Moreover, sticking to a inflexible cause gave rise to a violent situation and made it possible for numerous people to be forced to be scapegoats to valueless causes. Rigid and warmthless causes resulted in dangerous, violent, and funny situations all the time. They were only the consequences which were controled by unconditionally unified 'literality[名]', in spite of not satisfying "substantiality[實]." You Mong In who sought after a relative way of thinking strived to put his emphasis on danger, violence, and inconvenience which dogmatic belief in cause might bring about by repeating the discourses of characters who adhere to cause,in oder to make readers informed of it.