지식인 소설의 새로운 양상

Abstract

In the Korean history of convulsions, intellectuals made an effort to improve the irrational society according to their ability. The intellectual's novels which responded to such circumstances were the fruits of their desire to embody an opened society through criticism of the intellectual's practical intelligence and an attitude of idle ease. But the rapidly changing social situation made them cease to exist as a matter of course from the novels one by one. Finding an intellectual as the characters in such novels were by no means common because many novelists were interested in an everyday experience and the world since a middle period in the 1990's. This society still is as full of inconsistencies as the past. The more complicated problems than the past days seems to lie scattered about the world of a microscopic living. It is effective in the point that the intellectuals to bring up a question are a necessity under the present circumstances, too. But, it is the demands of the times that a way for their being could arrive safe at a living world to get rid of a past ideology oriented aspects . This thesis found out such an intellectual's image and aspects to practice on the spot or assume the attitude of an onlooker through the literary works of Yang, Kwi Ja, Lee, Yoon Ki, and Kim, Won Woo. In the process of study, firstly the present writer was attracted by a novelist, who suffered from some mental conflict without discarding the ideology of the old era. Through this study this study has clarified that there are the aspects with some retired educator of dignified presence as a classical scholar, and some intellectuals of bourgeoisie to lead an independent life to keep up with the times. Also, it found even a professor's aspect to lead a life of idle ease disregarding the reality. It seems that though some contradiction in reality is in a stark existence, the intellectual's novels will be not a rosy future. Though such a matter, the intellectual's novels would be demanded in the changing times as the intellectual's characteristics with a sense of mission. People's power has greatly increased in their power that they have ever been the past, however the intellectual's mission is because they who have a good knowledge of morality and expertise must bring up a question and propose an improvement against various irregularities.