문화 텍스트로서 도시 소설 - 「소설가 구보 씨의 일일」의 도시 텍스트성

Abstract

In A Day of the Novelist, Mr. Gu-bo, city(Gyeongseong), if considered as a text reading for the city, the protagonist, readers can be. In this case, the path soon moved his table of contents(contents). The starting point of this paper is a hero(Gu-Bo) to readers 'city' as a metonymy. The protagonist, reading the text, the culture of the city is to be interpreted. In particular, while Gubo, a main character, in A Day of the Novelist, Mr. Gu-bo walks aimlessly among the crowd of people, transportations, and buildings in Kyung Sung, a old name of Seoul, the observation of the crowd works as a thread of the novel that implicates a spiritual aspect of the city, transportations as neural network of the city and buildings as the visual power of instrumental reason represent the exterior features of the city as an urban physical substructure. The city is a text, a composition like a matrix of all kinds of threads. What is important here is to reveal the respective totality of the city in order to show a comprehensive view of the city because the city begins to build its own ideology from the moment of designing the city as space. In other words, derived from the peculiarities of the designed and segmented space, that is, the city, the respective totality work together to make the city function in return.