순수한 자유에 도달하는 길- 이청준의 1980년대 작품을 중심으로

Abstract

Lee Chung-joon was a steady writer who started his work in the 1960s and continued his work until the 2000s. He was sensitive to the realities of contemporariness, as he penetrated human beings under the obvious self-consciousness that he was a novelist. This paper generally agrees with existing views of confrontation and correspondence, represented by “home” and “novel,” but notes that the writer's literary world after 1980 cannot be explained with such a structure. In other words, it is true that he wrote several works based on his experience and many works that put the novelist himself at the forefront, but that alone does not fully understand the world of Lee Chung-joon's literature. Therefore, I critically look at the majority of research views that understand works before the 1980s as the core of Lee Chung-jun's literature, and reevaluate the post-1980 road that Lee Chung-jun walked. This is because the author can read the subtle changes revealed by the writer when he reads about the problems of reality of contemporariness and Lee Chung-joon's work together, not Lee Chung-joon as a literary-ist. Lee Chung-joon's unique style of portraying reality in an allegory way by featuring a specific “model,” which is represented by Your Heaven, no longer worked in the 1980s. It is difficult to find directly in Lee Chung-jun's literature, but rather, a more important point is about the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. In various works written in the 1980s, Lee Chung-jun's perception of reality became fiercer, especially in the way he tried to take a third attitude among the three vertices of “home,” “novel,” and “reality.” Lee Chung-joon's unique attitude to respond to reality through novels, away from the two tyrannical options of participation and escape, later became an important foundation for forming the world of his work.