李光洙의 『無情』論

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to identify the writer's ideological attitude, which is communicated through the phase of narrative techniques and narrative discourse of Mujeong by Lee, Kwang-soo. In this novel, animated feeling and the sense of reality are enhanced via a variety of focalization techniques. In other words, the depiction of detailed scenes and activities through external focalization offers the sense of vividness and reality. In addition, psychological conflict and ideology of the characters in transition times are more realistically portrayed utilizing an internal focalization technique at the backdrop of focuser-character narrative situation. The way of narrating analepses creates characters' personalities and grants rationality to their inner consciousness. In some way, an aesthetic effect is drawn by pursuing the transformation of descriptive structure through reservation or retroactive provision of specific information. Also, The way of narrating analepses plays another role of logically explaining the result of cognition and activities. Meanwhile, authoritative attitude of writer-narrator contributes to uniformity of the conveyance of a theme, that is social enlightenment, as a description strategy to express the writer's ideological attitude amid transitional social and historical setting. On one hand, however, we cannot deny that reality of this work has been damaged, due to excessive authoritative description attitude. It is a indefensible drawback of this work that this descriptive attitude has overlooked or promoted the reality of heteronomous modernization (colonialization) and the distorted view on Japan. In conclusion, Mujeong is the work of literary tension in which the writer's ideological attitude was portrayed through various narrative techniques.