1980년대 임철우의 소설에 대한 한 가지 독법 -단편소설에 나타난 서정성을 중심으로-

Abstract

Beginning of 1980s was opened by Gwangju Democratization Movement. Shock against savage violence a state pumped into its people as it pleases invited diversified responses at every corner of the society. In particular, as far as an area of novel is concerned, any writer who faithfully performed a response against such savage violence like Lim, Cheol-woo is hard to find. That's why Lim, Cheol-woo is acknowledged to deserve a privileged status in visualizing a symbolic subject of 'Gwangju'. Rhetoric of so-called 'A writer of May' given to him well reveals this background. Of course, in view of his literary journey, such rhetoric must be an obviously required and appropriate expression. However, the problem is that he wrote a lot of lyrical novels based on unequalled writing skill while persistently expressing guilty consciousness against 'Gwangju' in his novel. Origin of these lyrical novels is unable to be explained by a rhetoric of 'A writer of May'. This study approached this problem by borrowing a concept of 'Transcendental idea' of Kant. Through 'Critique of pure reason', Kant explored an illusionary idea (imagination) that a reason is hard to defy even though it recognizes its phony nature (false). Among these illusionary ideas, he named a privileged illusionary idea such as "God', 'Freedom', 'Soul' that have been continuously repeated together with human history as 'Transcendental idea'. This idea does not have identity but is able to perform 'Regulatory function' that leads reason when a reason integrates any one incident to a superior level. And so, Kant explained transcendental ideas that was rejected in 'Critique of pure reason' is 'required' in our practical area in 'Critique of practical reason'. In case of Lim, Cheol-woo, he explored virtual status in every corner of his novel. In particular, this trend is prominently represented in his guilty consciousness based novel and characters in novel recognize their individual reality as a false of their own accord but maintain such notion by referring illusionary idea of which effect is unable to be ignored. His viewpoint for a relation between this imagination and reality helps understand key point of his lyrical novel submitted by him. He identified his own lyrical novel as a 'requested' virtual world and advocated reconciliation that was rejected in guilty consciousness based novel. Actually in a space of his lyrical novel, mostly undamaged genetic purity is prominently represented. In other words, it is said to be a space equalled to real image of Gwangju not damaged by governmental violence. Like this, lyrical novel plays a role of an essential function in maintaining guilty consciousness based novel that tried to ceaselessly depict general image of Gwangju and repeated its failure. It seems that he pulled through 1980s by taking lyrical novel and guilty consciousness novel as two axis. This may be named after a Lim, Cheol-woo type balance. However, this balance is encountered with a crisis of new reorganization as a situation of 1987 was entered. In this study, while observing novel world shown by Lim, Cheol-woo in 1980s, a condition of implementing to "Spring days', a full-length documentary novel, by disintegrating his balance is intended to be observed at the same time.