부활과 혁명의 문학으로서의 ‘시’의 힘 －최인훈의 연작소설 「총독의 소리」를 중심으로－

Abstract

This paper investigates Choi In-Hun’s recognition of ‘Poetry’ and ‘Poet(Dichter)’ shown in the series of Chong-Dok-Ye-So-Ri(The Voice of a Governor). In the process of investigation, this paper examines Chois’ views on the relationship between the reality and literary representation. Choi tried literary representation about the problem of reality through fantasy. Choi makes a reproduction of a better world by the media of imagination. This world is impossible here, however, it is the most universal and ideal world. In background of Choi’s view, there is seeking for the ‘Poetry’ which is the origins of art existed in pre-modern. In this respect, ‘Poetry’ is an expression of the desire to lead the community in a better way by reproducing the collective emotions. In this literature, ‘a word’ and ‘a power’ are not separate. Furthermore, a lot of people have shared values about the community, and they have faith in potential possibility into the world through the imagination. That is what Choi seeks the power of poetry. On the one hand, Choi In-hun’s literature also is formed in the context of contemporary Korean literature. Choi criticized for strict application of the rules of socialist realism on Korea literature. Choi puts in more value on the role of the author to reveal the ‘Reality(實在)’ by observing the perceptible world. Choi think that this is a real sense of realism. In this respect, the vision of author has a close relationship between literary representation. Choi had a burden of representation similar to the reality. Here, it is increasingly accepted ‘difference’ that appears the representation of the given world through the unlimited expansion of the imagination. ‘The difference’ is obtained a universal truth by presenting the transcends verity in contemporary at conceptual level. Thus Choi In-hun’s recognition of ‘Poetry’ and ‘Poet(Dichter)’ have a decisive effect on Choi’s view of literature.