한국 근대소설과 ‘의식의 흐름’-베르그송, 제임스, 아인슈타인을 중심으로

Abstract

The stream of consciousness that was used in the Mujeong contributed greatly to the formation of the modern self. However, Lee Gwangsoo, who made the leading character get out of the physical time zone for experiencing the epiphany in the train, reinstated him to the homogenized time zone that is the center of the civilization, the future, and the evolution after the Samnangjin. The psychological time that would not be standardized by the law of the modern time and the afterimages of colorful memories that exist in the deep consciousness, that is, the literary explorations into beings that are isolated and excluded from the course of enlightenment have been seriously dealt in the Maeumi Yeoteun Jayeo and Pyobonsilui Cheonggyeguri. ‘K’ that blindly had followed the modern way of life took a step for finding true self by unexpectedly restoring the lost memories of the childhood after the failure of free love and ‘X’ that had repeated the sleepless nights finally started to find own true self by recalling the image of the dissected frog that had seen eight years before. However, in the novel of Lee Sang which had done most avant-garde experiment on the stream of consciousness, the past memories that emerged from the consciousness of leading characters could not be sacred any more. The triumphant achievement of Nalgae of Lee Sang could be won by the endeavor to re-appropriate the stream of consciousness through the discriminated way from the forerunners.