어머니 독자와 김만중의 소설 창작

Abstract

There are many ways to study the meaning of the fact that Kim Man-jung wrote a novel for Mrs. Yoon in the exile. This paper approached it as a concept of 'maternal reader' considering the internal role in the family and relational features that the female reader had. As a socio-cultural background for novel writing, I discussed the phenomenon of maternal readers in the 17th century, revealed the aspect of Mrs. Yoon's reading, and examined the aspect of considering maternal readers in Guunmong and Sassinamjeonggi. The maternal readers appeared in some families of Sadaebu in the seventeenth century. The female reader of the family read, copied, shared, borrowed, and preserved books of novel. These maternal readers influenced not only women who read novels together but also relatives of family members. The fact that the son of Sadaebu cherished his mother's handwritings has the meaning of accepting the life of his mother who made the novel reading a pleasure. Kim Man-jung's mother, Mrs. Yoon, lived her life as a reader. She was interested in history and character stories and cultivated her personality through reading. Kim Man-jung would have wrote Korean novels that could correspond to Mrs. Yoon's reading concern, culture, knowledge, and personality. In the case of Guunmong written on the exile, he would have been conscious of his mother and demanded high literary and in-depth themes. In Kim Man-jung's novel, there is a pattern considering the mother's reader. In Guunmong the presence of mother behind the relationship between men and women is revealed, and the daily life of high-level reading and evaluation centered on mother has been depicted. In Sassinamjeonggi the virtues and hardships of women are emphasized, and the collapse and recovery of the family has been taken a corresponding composition between first and last part of the work. This is the meaning of the support for the life of mother and woman along with the desire of the writer for the restoration of his family. The writing of novels by the writer of Sadaebu was recognized as part of the filial piety for the maternal readers, and it became a certain cause for novel writing and enjoyment. From the standpoint of the writer, it was also a wide range of creative areas between the interest in fiction and the presentation of Confucian ideology. Considering the relationship with the maternal readers, the writer intends to communicate with readers, providing them with a memory of reading from his life with a high-quality female reader, rather than teaching women unilaterally through novels. Under the socio-cultural background of the maternal readers of the 17th century, high-quality Korean novels came into existence.