2000년대 한국 소설의 생태학적 고찰 －한강, 편혜영, 박형서, 김태용의 소설을 중심으로

Abstract

This theme will be an opportunity to see from Han Gang, Pyun Hey-Young, Park Hung-Sue, and Kim Tae-yong’s novels a scene of ecology that intensely breathes in Korean young novels, which are produced despite the holistic global crisis in the 2000s, and to check the present and future of Korean novels through this. As has been broadly verified, the ecological crisis originated from the course of modernization. The progression oriented industrialization and its driving force, scientific technology are products of the reason, which is separated from the body. Modernity represents the rationality based on the reason and the view of world concentrating on the human being. As modern literature generally realizes such a system of the modern in content and form, the ecological and the modern literary crises form a weird community sharing a common destiny. The human’s blind attachment to modernization brings about an ecological end, which means the end of nature, and of the world. Not to mention humans, history, and literature, there will have been nothing left. The world that the past literature supported with imagination will not gain energy, and then endangered Homo Oecologicuses will float on the gloomy and ruinous earth. From the last century’s novels that were created by writers like Yeom Sangseop, O Yeong-su, Jo Se-hi, Lee Mun-gu, Kim Won-il, and Yun Hu-myeong etc., we can see such aspects in which the great ideologies progressed world-historically and ecological elements in industrialization adaptively percolate. On the other hand, in the 21st century’s novels created by young Korean writers including Baek Min-seok, Han Gang, Cheon Un-yeong, Phun Hey-Young etc.,ecology works characteristically in tandem with the fragmented and itemized subject matters that they intend to. This is especially prominent in novels by the young writers－Han Gang, Pyun Hey-Young, Park Hung-Sue, and Kim Tae-yong. Han Gang dreams of the ecological metamorphosis, Pyun Hey-Young concentrates the destruction of the human and nature, and their grotesque transformations with cruel hard?gore techniques, Park Hung-Sue and Kim Tae-yong use the method of paranoia and fantasy. The novel, which has breathed together with the mankind so far,cannot be satisfied with the function of entertainment is that the 21st century’s young Korean writers including Han Gang, Pyun Hey-Young, Park Hung-Sue, and Kim Tae-yong are connecting themselves with ecology with powerful vital energies that overthrow the ethos of modernization while creating new aesthetics of the novel now.