전(傳)과 소설의 관련 양상 ― 이문구 소설을 중심으로

Abstract

The influences of ‘Jeon(傳)’ during formation process of the Korean Novel are very great. It proved with the fact that first Korean Novel written by ‘the Hangul’, follow the format of ‘Jeon(傳)’. After that, Both of quality and quantity of Korean Novel has developed with creative succession of traditional Korean Novel format, ‘Jeon(傳)’. Lee, Moon-Gu is a writer who gropes for the possibility of the Korean Soseol(小說)'s character and the modern succession, when almost Korean writers followed to the Western literary methodology of imagination and creation. He didn't write his novel by Western viewpoint but traditional one, and had much interest in modern transfiguration of traditional narrative form like a ‘Soopil(隨筆)․Jeon(傳)․Yousa(遺事)․Manpil(漫筆)’ etc. He prefer a traditional narrative form to western mode, because he think that the basis of the narrative is a story. The main characters in Lee, Moon-Gu's Novel which follows traditional Korean Novel format, ‘Jeon(傳)’, are classifies to two types, ‘the exemplary character(師表的 人物)’ and ‘the parasitic character(寄生的 人物)’. He achieves a harmony between Korean narration and Western Novel with the challenging experiment in his novel. And now, his works and his experiments are evaluated that they suggest the direction of Korean novel.