자기희생의 구조 - 이광수의 『재생』과 오자키 고요의 『금색야차』 -

Abstract

This paper was written to clarify the ethical structure of Yi Kwangsu’s self-sacrifice through analyzing his novel, Jaesaen(재생). It is worthy of notice in that it was published at the beginning point of great change in his career as a writer and that the idea of self-sacrifice emerging after that time in his novels was launched at that novel. The idea of self-sacrifice is formed in the place of reversal between a victim and a perpetrator. A will to be a subject equal to perpetrator make a victim to come over to the place of that willing to be a voluntary and a ultimate winner-perpetrator-repenter by the moral energy of self-sacrifice. Jaesaeng is a novel full of uncanny energy of resentment and a will to be a voluntary victim. Yi Kwangsu’s male characters had been moving from the place of a betrayer to that of a victim and self-sacrificer in the chronicle of his novels. This is mainly because of the female resentment that uncovers the fantastic core of male betrayer-modern-subject. I put Jaesaeng by the side of Konkikiyashya(금색야차) and Changhanmong(장한몽) in order to elucidate the core structure of Yi Kwangsu’s moral idea and to approach to the morality of modernity itself.