金萬重 思惟의 世界表象 樣式과 『九雲夢』

Abstract

This treatise is dealing with the genuine meaning of nihil(空) or meaninglessness of the world expressed at the end of Kuwoonmong by the grand monk yukguan to which a lot of scholars have attached various interpretative theories but among them there are only two opinions worthy of discussing here. The first one implies that Kuwoonmong should be nihilistic Buddhism novel because it conceives in itself the pessimistic vision of this world. The second rejects this simple minded supposition and argues that the part of double negation of the grand monk Yukguan in Kuwoonmong is just rhetorical decoration have not so important significance. The two opinions, of course, is right in some angle they put in their logical frame. But Kuwoonmong is not religious literature at all though it have the buddhist viewpoint of the world in it. On the contrary, Kuwoonmong is not realistic one, it is an anti-representative fantasy roman. So nihil means the negation of real world exists out of the fictional sphere of reading experience. In other word, that reading and writing experience is that of popularity which originated from the nihilistic character of the author Kim, Man-Jung who expressed his negative inclination to the representation of this world by the form of poems.