『此山筆談』에 나타난 욕망의 이중적 양상과 의미

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to focus on various aspects of desire found in 『Chasanpildam』. 『Chasanpildam』 includes works in which deficient characters recognize their situation and pursue their desire intensely. Meanwhile, in some of the works, good deeds rather than actions to attain desire work as a major cause for satisfying desire. Furthermore, in some of the stories, characters not pursuing desire satisfy their needs in the end. The dualistic aspect of desire found in 『Chasanpildam』 implies two things: one is that it reveals the people’s autonomous recognition and awareness of economy and disgraceful deeds, and another is that it is closely associated with compiler Bae Jeon’s circumstances. To console himself, Bae Jeon chose characters relatively deficient from previous tale collections and engaged in writing aggressively. In the process, however, he thinks good deeds towards others form fundamental causes for satisfying needs, but this can be changed to be even more unrealistic than romantic recognition which previous tale collections exhibited. Although 『Chasanpildam』 includes works advocating realism comparatively, it tends to neglect the plausibility of narrative or reveal an unrealistic, peculiar, and extraordinary sense of aesthetics because it should have been attributed to consciousness of compilation.