2000년대 소설에 나타나는 유령 화자의 의미 -윤성희, 황정은의 소설을 중심으로

Abstract

This study aims to restructure current moral aspect in 2000s by reviewing the meaning of the ghost narrators which appear in the novels of Yun-SungHee and Hwang-JungEun. From the tales of ghost in traditional tales to recent new media narratives such as films and games, ghost narratives have been understood as return of the suppressed, which cannot be irrelevant to the feeling of ‘resentment.’ It is, however, not possible to find this type of resentment in the novels of Yun and Hwang. Theirs are pleasant and indifferent superficially. But, deep under the pleasantness and indifference, the moral attitude of the novels is paradoxically stated which intervenes the current shocking reality. Different from the convention of novel, their ghost narration accepts ‘contingency’ as one of the essential elements and highlights the aspect of ‘occurrence’ hidden in our ordinary lives through capturing the disastrous ‘accident.’ An ‘occurrence’ is something that compels us to decide a new way of existence. As the novel of Yun changes a simple and contingent accident into a situation of occurrence, it presents an illusion of the real through experience of messianic time which pauses our ordinary lives. In Hwang’s ghost narration, the ghost sometimes transforms into another object or an animal, which are vestiges of ‘otherness’ realized in ‘stubborn faces.’ The encounter with others works as a chance to interrogate about ‘myself’ of ‘me’ and makes the ego reborn as an ‘ethical subject.’ The novel of Hwang shows the ethic of novel to live along with ‘The Other’ by giving ‘names’ to these anonymous people without symbolic language and listening to their stories. Although their novels have been considered at a glance as ‘pleasant fairy tale’ or ‘fantastic narrative’ which are irrelevant to reality, they suggest a position regarding ethic of novels by revealing the phantom of the real through the voice of ghost narrator and introducing a ethical subject which responds to the summon of ‘The Other’ The ethical possibility of Korean novels in 2000s has been newly expanded through them.