남성적 ‘파토스(pathos)’로서의 대중소설과 청년들의 反 성장서사— 박범신의 70년대 후반 소설을 중심으로 —

Abstract

In the 1970s the popular novels of youth culture generations by Choi Inho, Park Boemshin, etc are the genre of the ‘degenerated melodrama’ that portrays the young man who lost the direction of the life and refuse to get a job, or living a dissipated life or feeling suicidal. The works shows the young heroes participate the lead of the development plan of the administration of the President Park Jung-hee without securing the position of the ‘citizen’ who takes the voice of criticism and strife with the society in a passive approach. As these works were popular novels at the time, the sign of the society criticism consciousness was described into a depression which could not be buckled down to the reality of the society that has not come up with a fresh experimental conscious but the ‘Sociality Melodrama’ emotionally captured the truth of the society of the day and this cannot be ignored as well. Through them, melodrama secures the status of the representative form of narration that contains the emotional realities in the form of the public aesthetic of 1970s. Melodrama is the expression to ‘solve’ the confusion through the modern transition instability and the expression of the anxiety followed by the respond of the mysterious and rare protection utopian myth. The melodramas of the rising generation warn about the capital corruptibility. In this process, melodrama has searched the new concepts of feminity. The heroines in 1970s melodrama are tomboys who are far from the behaved housewives with virtuous conduct of 1950-60s. According to Karen Horney, our culture defines the masculine attributes and rights as the power, courage, independence, success, grades, freedom and the right to choose the spouse, which means the women in melodrama are the traditional standard of the gender and a manly woman, what we call the ‘Modern’ women in the outside. These novels show the drastic adventure of the ‘Modern’ women showing the risk of it. Most of the adventurous women get punished and these romantic novels are reporting the social violence toward the women, on the other hand, punish the women who are outside the patriarchal boundary.