한국 현대소설에 나타난 악과 폭력의 문학적 형상화

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the configuring of evil and violence that shows the resistance to the socially dominant rules and orders in korean modern novels. This research investigating the figure of evil and violence are intimately related to establish the concept of aesthetic modernity opposed to the process of social modernization. Choi, In-ho's novel <a model tale> figures ironically the cruel fate that Moirai as devil impose outrageously on human life. The writings that pursue the characteristic of evil at the human behavior lost the legitimacy are I, Mun-yeol's <Philon's pig> and I, Ho-cheol's <various case of internal conditions>. These works similarly treat evil and violence from the viewpoint of collective power, on the other hand Jeon, Sang-guk's work <imperishable seed> from the viewpoint of patriarchal moral. Meanwhile many works figuring evil and violence tend to criticize the structural conflict of modern society. I, Dong-ha's <violence research> takes adhesively interest in the violence that is filled in korean after-war society. Kim, Seung-ok's <dryness> deals with the violence in the process of initiation as the socialization. The other type of works makes a critical denial to capitalistically governing ideology and system. In this type, the main characters appear as a criminal, the maladjusted, the vanquished. Jeon, Sang-guk's <idol's tear> inclined to Baudelaire's cultural satanism tells the story that a idol called devil goes to ruin and eliminates from the society by the name of humanism. Also, I, Dong-ha's <a remedy for violence> shows that an egoist only as a deviator who frequently denied the social criterion becomes to be a sacrifice under the social criminal control system. And to conclude, the investigating research of the configuring of evil and violence in korean modern novels is correspond to effort of restoration of the unidentified Other that suppressed and excluded in the modern society governed by instrumental reason.