박완서 단편소설과 말년의 양식에 대한 시론적 검토

Abstract

Utilizing the concept of ‘lateness’ proposed by Edward Said, we tried to look at Park Wan-seo’s last fictions. To this end, the main key words were extracted by analyzing Park Wan-seo's short stories, and ‘the late style’ shown in three works in later years was examined. In the works of later years, the feelings of ‘reflection and awakening’, ‘the positivity of desire’, and ‘compassion and sympathy’ that the artist has crafted throughout his life seem to be destroyed to some extent. Park Wan-seo reflects on the elements that create cracks in this world and make visible or formal reconciliation impossible. Through the double denial, it shows the point where reflection is impossible. In addition, through original sin, the negative aspect of desire is visualized, and through the denial of death, the urge to death that makes others the object of my desire is denied. It is true that the achievements of Park Wan-seo's ‘late style’ in his later years are not exceptional products of the artist, but the result of long deliberation and thinking. Destroying or correcting the style writer has established with writer contemporaries (in other words, the objectification of the writer's overall relationship with her work and the totality expressiveness of writer's work) is a way to maintain productivity as an writer. Paradoxically speaking, if some of Park Wan-seo's last fictions show ‘the late style’, it can mean that Park Wan-seo's productivity of fictions has been consistently maintained. Park Wan-seo's works were finished with these three works, but it can be said with caution that these works opened a new horizon for Park Wan-seo's world.