옌롄커(閻連科)의 『사서(四書)』 연구

Abstract

Yan Lianke's novel 『四書』 is set in the context of the anti-right struggle, the Great Leap Forward movement, and the Great Famine. State violence is dealt with through intellectuals who were subject to labor reform in the Wishin District along the Yellow River. On the other hand, we considered the human dignity of not being dominated by animal instincts for survival in extreme situations where violence is rampant. In the novel, the general causal relationship is collapsed, and reality and unreal appear in a mixture. This collapse and mixture is a novel device. The search for a mixture of the unreal and reality of this novel can be said to be the starting point of this article. First, in 『天的孩子』, the novel device of religion was analyzed, focusing on the character 'The Child’. Second, in 『故道』, the mixture of unreal and reality was examined through the narrative of wheat grains that grew like corn grains after eating blood centered on the character 'writer’. Third, in 『新西绪弗神话』, the 'The Myth of Sisyphus’ was analyzed focusing on the character 'the scholar’. Through fables, the Chinese people who were placed in the bond of repetition from the past to the present were considered.