17세기 소설의 새로운 대화 국면-「雲英傳」․「要路院夜話記」․『九雲夢』의 경우-

Abstract

East Asian classics in their dialogue formats usually chose the form of conversation between ‘I’ who had the light of veritas and ‘You’ who did not have the light of veritas. As the result, dialogues in a number of works actually were concluded with monologue that enlightened ‘I’ educated unenlightened ‘You’. Three 17th-century novels, on the other hand, showed the best form of communication by presenting a new phase of dialogue. Dialogues between prince and court ladies in Unyeong-jeon雲英傳 were oppressive one-sided conversation at first, but they began to communicate by the extreme moment which put court ladies to death. So the master and slaves had a conversation in an equal position, and the absolute weaker party revealed their true hearts in front of the absolute power. Yorowon-yahwa-gi要路院夜話記 showed a typical model of equal dialogue by capturing the trend of the relationship between interlocutors delicately. Two main characters got to an equal relation through the false conversation of the first half, and reached a true dialogue and communication by respecting the opinion of the opponent and admitting their errors each other. Guunmong九雲夢 presented the ideal dialogue situation between the strong and the weak. Dialogues of Guunmong showed that if the consideration of the strong is required for conversation, it could reach ‘unconstrained agreement’ in the rigid hierarchy through rational discussion in equal relationship.