이문열 『황제를 위하여』의 전통 서사(양식)의 변용 양상

Abstract

This article starts from the idea that the meaning of the novel cannot be captured properly the novel Hwangjerul Wihayo (황제를 위하여), written by Yi Munyol. As we know, ‘novel’ is a product of perception that prerogates the West and modern times, a concept derived from a point of separation from the previous narrative. In East Asian tradition, ‘小說’ is an narrative that does not have a fixed meaning, but rather has a more extended network of meanings that can put Western novels into the subgenre. In this regard, the novel Hwangjerul Wihayo (황제를 위하여), the text should be approached with a more flexible attitude regarding the categories and concepts of novels. In the text, the point of the text related to the traditional narrative (form) are explained in three broad sections. The first is the interdependence of speakers and readers who persuade and entice the reader to the story scene through active intervention by the speaker, the second is the intertextuality of combining, mixing and updating traditional texts in a dialogue relationship, and the last is an counter- discourse form that reveals ridicule and resistance to the ruling culture through non-mainstream classic texts such as Jeonggamrok (정감록) or Dodeoggyeong (道德經). This characteristic is mainly the narrative extension of parody, based on a critical consciousness of modern, or Western discourse.