웃음, 혹은 저항과 타협의 양가적 제스처 ―1950-1960년대 조흔파의 명랑소설(성인) 연구―

Abstract

This paper examined the structural characteristics of Cho Huen-pa's comic novels for adult, the world-view of the author, and the process of change of the author's works from the 1950s to the 1960s. While examining Cho's comic novels for adult, I tried to expand the horizons of the study of the writer Cho Heun-pa by expanding the scope of the research that had been centered on the children's novel, particularly the well known Yalgaejoen (the bad boy). His lifetime religion Christianity and his active and mischievous experience gotten from the early modern school system together gave him the two major consciousness of his works: 'the consciousness of freedom', 'confronting position to the oppressive and customary formal norms'. With these two and his innate 'humorous language ability and joyful imagination' were the driving force of the narrative world of Cho Huem-pa. The gesture of resistance to the negative world had created a distinctive laughing narrative through the artist's ingenious imagination and language ability. The writer's narrative of laughter created a unique world of contradictions in which the consciousness of resistance and the opposing gesture of compromise united together while he reconciled with the object of rejection which was felt unjust for the writer in the beginning. This secular narrative of the writer's laughter, whose secular desires were displayed without any hesitation and the various voices of different hats spread equally, had embodied a world of laughter spread over the boiling expectations of an uncertain but hopeful object of democratic future. Cho’s literature could be said to be the text of a laugh of jouissance that generated uncertain joy through the unequal and fluid semantic structure through ambiguous and unclear expectations from within.