玉所 權燮의 「夢記」에 대한 고찰

Abstract

Okso(玉所), Kwonseop(權燮) was born rich as a son of noble birth but lived a life full of writing and sightseeing regardless of power and wealth. He is becoming an important person in shedding light on a social history of the 18th art because he broadened the academic interest and left an enormous amount of writing on music, paintings, and topography as well as various genres of literature. This study intended to investigate his inner world, focused on Mong-gi(夢記), the record of dreams, among his various writings. The findings are as follows. First, the descriptive method of dreams mentioned in Mong-gi mostly took syllogisms. Second, Mong-gi was written to exhibit the experience of indications and the material for hanging around and appreciating. Third, Mong-gi hardly showed fiction because the writer's experience of dreams was faithfully written, which was different from Mongyurok(夢遊錄). Fourth, Hwamongcheop(畵夢帖) from Mong-gi mainly covered the content of taking a stroll and reciting poems in mountains and waters. Moreover, the works included in Hwamongcheop chiefly featured the attractive sightseeing of mountains and waters in dreams and took on a character of a documentary literature of mountains and waters. The documentary literature included in Hwamongcheop depicted mountains and waters using the impression-describing method, different from other documentary works of mountains and waters. It seems that Kwonseop deliberately portrayed the key scenic beauty using the impression-describing method, because Kwonseop expressed the scenic beauty of mountains and waters from his dreams in writing and further planed to draw a picture of the scenery. The documentary literature of mountains and waters in Hwamongcheop repeated the image of water and castles: The image of water reflected a desire to leave somewhere and was expressed as a vehicle of pondering upon his life and the image of castles included an unworldliness-oriented meaning. From this, the image of water and castles repeated in Hwamongcheop is considered to reflect Kwonseop's inner world where he continued to pursue the unworldliness.