이문구 소설의 이야기성에 관한 두 가지 고찰

Abstract

The first problematic consciousness of this study concerned an approach in Lee Mun-gu's novels in the fields of literary education and history. There are differences between the major reasons and grounds behind the status of his novels educational canons and the evaluations of his novels in nature and status in the history of literature. In general, the status and evaluation of a work is subject to changes in the history of literature. The values of educational canons are not always in the same trajectory of evaluations in the history of literature. Lee's novels are, however, continuously placed outside the mainstream or subjected to dual evaluations in the history of literature despite the fact that they are actively cited as educational canons. His novels are actually recognized for their rich reproducibility, which reminds readers of a museum of life history, their veracity of pursuing the salvation image of man through novels and actual life, and their artistry in his style of writing and heritage that broadened the horizon in the history of Korean novels. However, the center of gravity varies according to the criteria of evaluation. At the root of this situation are the Story and differences in the viewpoint of novels. The second problematic consciousness of the study concerned narrativity and story, which are two aspects used as criteria to assess his novels. Here, the study focused on the process of reaching concepts and evaluations through specific texts rather than theoretical inquiries. The study traced the patterns of his novels based on the oral narrative tradition(or orality) being utilized as grounds for arguments in these two aspects, examining their validity. There are the oral tradition and its modern transformation at the bottom of the Populism of language, which brings in dialects and slangs, and the Episode of organization to connect the lives or praise and censure of individuals. The study demonstrated it empirically with cases of works and signified the points where Lee's consciousness as a writer met the narrative layers, emphasizing a need to broaden the viewpoint of Korean literature for his novels.