‘처용’이라는 화두와 ‘벽사(辟邪)’의 언어 －김춘수의 무의미시론에 대한 새로운 해독－

Abstract

In the thesis, ≪Che-yong-dan-jang≫written by Kim Choonsoo on the background of 1950s~1960s of Korean literature circle with interest for ‘tradition’ and the traditional aspect of his poetry that has been researched generally from the anti-traditional angle through Buddhistic interpretation on the meaningless poetics were reviewed. Largely, those who study his poems and poetics comprehend them from the anti-traditional point of view that breaks the norm of lyrical verses, however, in order to have ≪Che-yong-dan-jang≫ be appreciated, it is essential that the serial works of ‘Cheyong’ prompted by the concern toward the tradition of modern poets and the aesthetic corelations coming from the <Che-yong-ga>, one of Koryo folk songs should be considered. Kim Choonsoo planned to write the serial works of ‘Cheyong’ from as early as 1950s, and in the course of creating the series of ≪Che-yong-dan-jang≫ from 1960s to 1991, he dived into the profound study of <Che-yong-ga>, a Koryo folk song, grasping ‘Cheyong’ for the subject that he interpreted as ‘bodhisattva of long-suffering’Going through his theory of insignificant poetics minutely that was completed into his comprehensive work can be confirmed to lead to the fact that the Buddhistic transience that turns the true-life logic into nothingness and the deeper comprehension on the language of exorcism revealed in the <Che-yong-ga>, a Koryo folk song, is harbored in his outlook of this world and in the way of narration. The Buddhistic speculations that Kim Choonsoo detected through the <Che-yong-ga> suggests that the ‘conventional tradition’ forms a crucial foundation in trying to have the modernity and experimental feature of his poems to be properly appreciated.