재현이 ‘하는 일’(1)：문학적 재현은 실재를 어떻게 지시하고-고정하는가－유미리 「돌에서 헤엄치는 물고기(石に泳ぐ魚)」와 그 프라이버시 소송 사건(1994)을 중심으로－

Abstract

This study began by looking at recent “outing” scandals in the Korean literary circles. Considering the fact (or its possibility) that novels can cause damage to real life existence, focus cannot only converge into “What is an ethical act of representation?” There needs to be some contemplation over what has been accumulated by acts of representation beyond such pretexts as problematic “authors” and “unethical acts.” This study reviews “what was being done” by representations in reality with a focus on novels indicating strong associations with reality (model novels, autobiographical novels, and autofiction). This study focuses its discussions on Miri Yu’s first work A Fish Swimming in Stone published in Japan in 1994 and the privacy cases entangled with it. Rather than “talking” about what parts of her representations were wrong or whether the plaintiff or defendant presented more valid logic, this study deals with what actions would or could result from her representations or how a representative mechanism would work even in the reaction to the action (interrogation and proof in the litigation process). Given the limited space of the paper, however, this study focuses on the former (literary representations) as it developed its discussions. Chapter 3 reviews the expression “fictional facts” used by the plaintiff with a focus on the language of the parties in the suit and examines how a representative work could exist as a venue where the coinage of “fictional fact” was created. Chapter 4 mentions the self-representation of the author who was aware of the coinage specifically and analyzed the digression of “This story was based on a true story” to resolve the verisimilitude of the novel outside of it.