한․몽 소설의 의적 모티프 비교연구

Abstract

This paper through comparative analyses between Heo Gyun’s “Hong Gildong Jeon” and Chardobal Rodoidamba’s “Clean Tamir River” look into the meaning of ‘elegant righteous outlaws’ that are visualized in Korean and Mongolian novels. Hong Gildong and Tumur based on righteousness took properties of rotten bureaucrats or of vicious feudal lords and doled them out to the miserable peasants so that the both were widely supported by the people. Through the embodiments of these righteous outlaws the social ironies of Joseon dynasty and of the circumstance before the Mongolian revolution. However, even though the ‘elegant righteous outlaws’ could provide some shocks to the ironical social order, they could not be the leader reforming the society. Their goal is not to build a new society but to recover the social order of the old regimes. These characters can be found both in Hong Gildong and in Tumur. “Hong Gildong Jeon” and “Clean Tamir River” are social texts, between which is a large spatio-temporal gap. Nonetheless, a comparison through the motive of righteous outlaws finds some structural similarities in them. As righteous outlaws have appeared in human history and various literatures, the motives of the two texts have the same attributes. While the prospects of the two novels differ from each other, the functions working in both are similar to each other. It is because the figure of the ‘elegant righteous outlaw’ defines the heros of both texts. It shows that Korean and Mongolian literatures share the universality within the category of the world literature.