어린이 청소년 SF 서사에 나타난 폐허의 상상력 - 이현, 『로봇의 별・2・3』을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This paper proposes the imagination of ruins as a paradigm for reading science fiction narratives, and examines the characteristics of the community worldview that science fiction narratives aim for by analyzing the meaning contained in the space built by The Star of Robots, which served as a tipping point in Korean children’s and youth literature. The ruins are not just a dystopian landscape, but a place of events that grabs pieces of the fragmented past and invokes the future that will come after the ruins. Therefore, the act of seeing the ruins reflects the aesthetic modernity that distinguishes art from life in an off–modern way, and looks back on how the science fiction narrative of children and adolescents is building the scaffolding of utopia in the remnants of dystopia. The story of triplet robots Naro, Ara, and Neda encounters and overlaps each other on the ruins, and the The Star of Robots, which forms a narrative solidarity in which the story of “I” soon becomes the story of “You,” is a work that transforms the geography of the edge of witnessing a new birth in a destroyed and disconnected ruins into the aesthetics of science fiction. The community of alternative solidarity imagined by The Star of Robots is not possible by discovering a newly emerged, but comes through the ‘act of seeing’ the reality created by repeating the filling and emptying of the ruins. Life and art can break down the boundaries of the fictional world and integrate it when the act of seeing the ruins reproduced by the science fiction narrative continues. The Star of Robots is located at that starting point.