최인훈의「옛날 옛적에 훠어이 훠이」연구

Abstract

In-Hoon Choi is a very creative and unique writer having an eye of a research worker on history of modern korean literature. The ultimate goal he took as an object was authentic acquisition of korean modernity and its artistic accomplishment pulling up with western literature and thoughts. An awareness like this is a motive power he had gotten a great artistic accomplishment as creating drama. This thesis is written to study Chioi's modern creative accomplishment on korean literature intending main text「Long long Time Ago, Whai Whai」in his several dramas. In my opinion,「Long long Time Ago…」is a very important text proving he got literary modernity in his private career as well as korean literary history. Choi producted series of parody novels concentratively like『dreams of nine clouds』,「Yul-Ha diary」,「Nol-Bu story」,『Seoyoogi』before he put his right hand to drama work. These novels were pointed out anti-realistic or far outed because of its difficult and experimental figures. But These are products of his intellectual and methodological effort to find out unique korean cultural mode and to get its artistic accomplishment. 「Long long Time Ago…」is a drama gotten material from korean traditional tale and its theme comes from our traditional thoughts - Confucianism and Buddhism to save the bitter human world. We find love for one's family and neighbors during development of affair in drama, but we feel it more seriously from denouement of this drama. A sacrifice of main character's family to save themselves and neighbors originates from love of Confucianism and Buddhism. We know familism of confucianism and karma of Buddhism might expanded into humanistic love and cosmic savation. Choi gets his theme and material from our tradition and accomplished dramatic language use, plot and stage setting successfully in the view of dramatic skills. Choi is a refugee from north korea during Korean War. He integrated his rootless situation into national problem to find out korean identity. Finally, he found out korean speciallities and expanded them into cosmic salvation and also achieved artistic accomplishment. We call him a great research worker as well as creative writer for this reason.