염상섭 소설에 나타난 소문의 서사화 전략 연구 - 『이심』의 스캔들화된 여성을 중심으로

Abstract

This study aims to reveal how the scandals about women works as an important power source in novel, and the meaning of scandalized women and it’s narrative in Yeom Sangseop’s novel focusing his novel Yisim(『이심』). Before Yisim, the scandals in his novel were used as a kind of narrative device with which reveal the truth behind the event and represent the reality more vividly and realistically. However, in Yisim, the scandals become a principal which makes narrative and futhermore a literary reality as such. Then deciphering the ‘scandalized women’ in novel Yisim is necessary to understand the inner narrative logic and its meaning of the ‘modern girl’, which works as a narrative kernel in Yeom Sangseop’s novel since 1920s. To reveal this, I examine the scandalized women focusing on two level of narrative logic, the plotting and forming character. At first, the level of plotting, the plot of Yisim is be comprised of a strange structure of repetition in which the untruth becomes the truth by the scandal. And the level of forming character, the narrative of Yisim is unfolded with ‘socialist’ and ‘prostitute’ as the double as its center. The ‘prison’ and ‘prostitute quarters’ in which they locked, have a homology in the way that they are the wasteland of narrative in which the narrative desire are made impassible. In that sense, socialist and modern girl are homologous characters in the narrative of Yeom Sangseop’s novel. In the end of the novel, Yeom Sangseop reach novel of manners but rather popular novel by denormalization of the normal scandal, and that achieve was possible by various plotting and the meeting with multilayered reality.