<최고운전>과 <금돼지 자손>의 부부위기와 해소 – ‘지하국대적퇴치설화’의 구조적 변이를 중심으로 –

Abstract

Gowun Choi Chi won(857 ~?) is a real person who has remained in history. All information about him concerning his study abroad in Chinese Tang Dynasty, a famous writer of <Geokhwangsoseo(檄黃巢書)>, a well-known policy maker of <Simu Xiangjo(時務十餘條)>, a poet author of <Gyewonpilgyeongjib(桂苑筆耕集)> and a hermit with unknown end, is not clear at all. He is an obscure person because history does not record about him completely. There are two fictitious narratives that model him. One is an old novel <Choigounjeon>, whose author and date of writing are difficult to accurately estimate and the other is <The Golden Pig Descendants> that has been worded and handed over through oral literature by common people. In all branches of literary genre, there is a considerable gap between the fictional and the real characters. It is assumed that the narrative of <Choigounjeon> precedes <Geumdwaeji Jason>. These two narratives have the common structural framework of <Jihagukdaejeoktoechi-seolhwa> as key structure but the results of the frameworks are different. Matrimonial crisis occurs in both stories of <Choigounjeon> and <Geumdaweji Jason>. In case of <Choigounjeon> not the Choigoun couple but their parents suffer the crisis. The parents’ crisis is transferred to their children completely as their children’s crisis. The narrative structure used to resolve this crisis is ‘the tale of foolish husband and wise wife(Ubu-Hyeonnyeo)’. The underground monster defeat narrative, inserted into the fictional narrative dealing with Choi Chi-won, made a considerable structural shift. Such processing and mutations are the source of marital crisis, 'Ubu Hyunyeo: the tale of foolish husband and wise wife' was added to resolve this epic. In the literature narrative, the proper distance is set between Choi Chi-won and the gold pig, but in the oral narrative, Choi Chi-won and the gold pig are set to 'dad and son.‘ In <Choigounjeon> Choichiwon's crisis comes from his parents' crisis, but as a measure to solve the crisis, Choi Chi-won is set as the son of Choi Chung, not the son of the golden pig, which is a key framework of literature narrative. On the other hand, the contents that all the difficulties that Choi Chi-won suffered as well as the talents he had end in as a hermit, reflects the consciousness of the common people that intends to turn them into the merits of sons of gold pigs. That is the story of <Geumdwaeji Jason>.