소환되는 역사와 혁명의 기억 - 최인훈과 이병주의 소설을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper is aimed to examine how memories of 4·19 Revolution was represented in novelist methodological and recognitive aspects in novels based on experiences of the event. In these novels, memories of the revolution was inherent in ambivalent emotions of sorrow and hope and tried to reflect antinomic attributes needed inevitably for “hope got paid for death.” The memories splitted into “joy and despair” like this made recall revolution not as historic reality but as ‘fantasy’, and led to style of fantasy novel rather than realistic novel in representation. In addition, 5·16 Que in 1961 made 4·19 into the revolution without emancipation, which repressed representations and memories of 4·19 experiences, and as result literary reflections of 4·19 were indirected and introverted. This led the effect of widening time and space in the recognition of history, which made call historic memories and ideologic problems prohibited because of politic taboo and gave freedom of rethinking and reconstructing them. In special, starting literary writing in the late 1950s and different from writers of postwar literatures who were criticized in reason of the lack of historic consciousness, Choi Inhoon and Yi Beongju were writers whose 4·19 experiences and memories imprinted strongly in their works and lives rather than so called writers of 4·19 generation. They described realities before and after 4·19 revolution, through destructing normal forms and creating intellectual manipulations. Their works incubated in matrixes of 4·19 experiences created rooms of discoursing on ideological taboo, nationalism, nation and unification problems. In this sense, revitalized novelist attribute as epistemological genre, their writing need correct on critic interpretations vesting literary fruits of 4·19 to certain group and its own ideology.