鼠鼯傳 評釋

Abstract

Seoohjeon is the lawsuit-typed fable novel written in Chinese between rodents, which is the only one that shows the author’s name in the form of “author: jeonjinsa Seo Dal-jeung jinan” under the title of the work. It’s creation time is presumed any time between the later 18th century and the mid-19th century. The purpose of study is to complement the point of the study of writer on the basis of Nusehaengrok which was handed down by the descendants of Park Eung-su, son-in-law’s father of Seo Dal-jeung(1773~?), which was found after the presentation of the past thesis concerned with Seoohjeon, and especially to introduce for the first time the original text, translation and annotation into the academic world. and so the research of overall critical notes of the work was conducted.. I tried to find a significance in complementing the study of writer on the basis of the later-found data and former research results, and to introduce for the first time into the academic world the specified aspects of the work by attaching the translation and detailed annotation of Seoohjeon. This work is seemed to show the expectation of ideal government system and the aspects of an ideal world of the ideal leaders as the local elites by criticizing corrupted, incompetent government officials, and arrogation of gentry and wealthy local farmers, and by realistically reconstructing class conflicts and contradictions of the rural community society widespread by corruption and graft. In consulting a chronicle of sayings and doings concerned with its author, it seems that the author’s consciousness is reflected well in the work, who has had uprightness as a principle and not accepted injustice lifelong since his childhood. I hope that I’ll have an opportunity to extend the range of study of interested researchers and to make up for the incomplete study.