북한 과학환상소설의 환상성과 인물의 형상화 방식

Abstract

Literary studies and criticism concerned with North Korean science fictionare much inferior in both quantity and quality to other genres of North Koreanliterature. The cause customarily assigned to this would be the realistic effectsof the novel. The fantasy in North Korean SF is scientifically realistic andutopian but Western SF is usually absurd, unrealistic, and pessimistic. NorthKorean SF offers readers scientific paradigms and knowledge. They have a repertory of the hero, the heroine, the villain, and thehumorous character. There are positive characters and negative ones. Thepositive characters are depicted as independent characters struggling for utopia. The negative characters can be divided into hostile characters and passivelyhostile ones. The differences between positive characters and hostile or passivecharacters expand into differences between good and evil or man and beast.