천승세 소설에 나타난 섬 공간과 무속 －「낙월도」와 「신궁」 을 중심으로－

Abstract

The island space and the shamanism in in Cheon Seung-se’s novels need to extract its meaning, not in parallel but mutually. In Cheon Seung-se’s novels, the island is understood in two dimensions. One is a space of feculence[不淨]. The island in feculence is put in a state of disaster called a bad fishing[凶漁]. feculence is mainly caused by human misbehavior, which is attributed to abnormal deaths in Cheon Seung-se’s both novels. Abnormal death is represented by unfair death, which is all related to the exploitation structure of society. The people of the island’s basement in “Nakwoldo” reserve the intrinsic energy that can overcome the disaster of a bad fishing through the mutual sharing of grief[恨], solidarity and sympathy of each other in the field of shamanism, rather than direct resistance. Another spatial characteristic of an island is the space of purification[淨化]. The reason why feculence is going on in “Nakwoldo” is the voluntary sacrifice of the members. However, this is far from solving the social structural contradiction of the island space by the dimension of faith. By the time of “Shingung”, the island shows its potential as a complete purification space. In this work, one of the communitie’s grief that have been accumulated as intrinsic energy is transformed into a direct resistance energy through the shaman priest. It is to punish the enemy of the community directly in the course of the shaman rite. The ‘murder’ caused by the priest (shaman) causes irony due to the sacredness of shaman rites. This is the point where it is distinguished from novels of KAPF Series to end with murder and arson. The transcendent function of shamanism is not undermined, but a grief of the People’s hierarchy is connected to sociality through shamanism.