정비석의 「성황당」과 김동리의 「산화」에 나타난 자연의 의미

Abstract

The aim of this writing is to compare a character of nature in Jeong, Bi-seok's novel, 「SeongHwangDang」 with that in Kim, Dong-lee's novel, 「SanHwa」 and explain a semantic change which appears in the nature. Two works almost are announced at the same time and the people who maintains a livelihood with selling the baked charcoal makes an entrance in those works, also show the people who has an occult belief about nature. Therefore those have a superficial analogy for the time being. But Jeong, Bi-seok's work and Kim, Dong-lee's react to modern process of a change which appears in conception of nature in each other different manner. The former maintains an occult belief about nature and preserves a premodern concept about it. On the other hand, the latter maintains an occult belief about nature just like in Jeong, Bi-seok's novel but includes the narrative idea which leads to new conceptualization in nature. In brief, the nature in Jeong, Bi-seok's work is a space where all things return to recursive unity mediated by sacred existence. However the nature in Kim, Dong-lee's represents a prose conversion that a narrative development in his work throws away the repetitive rhythm into oblivion. That is to say, Kim, Dong-lee's work reveals a character of a secular space where all things are developed in accordance with a linear direction of time. In spite of similar motives, there is a subtle and meaningful distinction in two works.