수용미학 관점으로 본 「만복사저포기」의 환상성

Abstract

It can be said that 「Manboksajeopogi」’s fantasy is the effect originated from the reader having a feeling toward a surreal event. The aesthetic distance between the main character and the reader is made either close or far by the narrator to show fantasy. Such hesitation or aesthetic distance is realized through the narrative method of an independent dimension, that is, the aesthetics of reception after all. 「Manboksajeopogi」 uses multiple viewpoints to set up a real world and fantasy world at the same time. This functions as a device to induce reader’s hesitation and be directly connected to fantasy. This hesitation is described by the narrator as a feeling toward a fact and sometimes as a doubt, so readers, too, are induced to feel the same way. Therefore, the aspect of creating fantasy flowing over the entire work of 「Manboksajeopogi」 always supposes and describes even the reader’s style of reading. Yangsaeng in 「Manboksajeopogi」 copes with fantasy events with realistic methods, and this aspect is shown by the narrative method of an independent dimension. The fantasy indexes all through 「Manboksajeopogi」 are realized for the purpose of creating reader’s fantasy. This is attributed to the narrative method which the narrator intended in advance. Here, we can deem that even though fantasy elements are included, the reader is unwilling to have doubts over the features of those elements newly. Thus, fantasy should be probable in reality, and it should exist within the reader’s epistemological range. Therefore, the fantasy of 「Manboksajeopogi」 is indispensible to keep the readers in mind for narration, and the author’s consciousness of theme is expressed by the fantasy mechanism, hesitation, and aesthetic distance.