서정주 시의 아상블라주적 상상력과 ‘무등의 시학’ - 『산시』를 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study observes the postmodern view appeared in Poetry of Mountains based on F. Guattari and G. Dleuze's concept of assemblage. In his Poetry of Mountains, Seo Jeong-ju crosses over manifold attributes consisting of various heterogeneous conditions. He also embodies relational thinking and post-dichotomous thinking implicated by the assemblage concept, as well as the symbiotic values of humans and nature. Furthermore, through the new writing techniques in ‘Words of Mountains’, ‘Stories Told by Mountains’ and ‘Conversation with Mountains’, he restores lives of the others, who used not have their own voices, by reflecting them in the name of each mountain. Moreover, using his unique rhetoric, which reminds of Deleuze and Guattari's “Becoming”, he constructs the aesthetics of transactional relations with all things in the world by crossing freely over time and space, heaven and earth, God and men, animals and plants (or things). Seo Jeong-ju's characteristic assemblage imagination can be found in his unique arrangement of mountain names in Poetry of Mountains. For Deleuze and Guattari, assemblage refers to constellation of various paradigme gathered to form a new entity, and this has the same context with the semantic structure of Poetry of Mountains represented as combination of heterogeneous senses. By being free from the conventional poetry writing which pursues arrangement of poetic diction, Seo Jeong-ju introduces a novel and avant-garde poetry writing which is named by himself as ‘the congruity of incongruites’. The voices of repressed entities in the process are restored as the Words of Mountains, and Seo Jeong-ju builds the world of ‘Moodeung Poetics’ based on the harmonious symbiosis of humans and nature.