김원우 소설에 나타난 신경증과 윤리적 태도 연구 ―「짐승의 시간」을 중심으로

Abstract

This study is to interpret the chastity of the 1980’s Kim Won-Woo novels from an ethical attitude. In the Korean modern and contemporary history, the 1980’s are defined as an era when there was an active movement of the citizens to achieve democracy. The desire for democratization at the time was a social regime including all classes. Therefore the Korean literature during the 1980’s is also closely related to the dominant passions of the time. This thesis will look further into the growing passions at the center of the and the continuous discord of Kim Won-Woo’s novels during the 80’s. If, from any perspective the ‘desire for democracy’ was the dominant ideology at the time, that itself could have become a sort of ‘ideal model’ beyond field of the subject’s free judgment. Meanwhile, we must not overlook the fact that the subjects of the 80’s are a generation of people with an attitude that pursued the ‘real Subject’. The word that defines the subject of Kim Won-Woo’s novel showing a temperamental reaction is ‘impetuous’. The subjects in Kim’s novels all suffer from being impetuous and meet with the spirit of the age in a dubious manner. The thesis will define this as denying the ‘already materialized’ passions, and fighting to find the subject’s self ethical place. By running into the physical body of the dominant ideology and trying not to lose the voice of the inner self, the attitude that Kim’s novel’s main characters take on is a kind of chastity. As the characters in the novel deny the ceremony and tried to uphold the true independent consciousness, the chastity in Kim’s novels can be defined by the subject’s ethical stand.