생태학적 사유의 기원과 신화적 상상력 연구-윤대녕 소설을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper makes clear of the existential problem, mythological imagination, and criticism of reality in relation with the ecological thinking, which is the characteristics of Dae-Nyeong Yun's novels. It also shows that new methods of novel, such as superiority of image to narrative, return to the origin, madness and hallucination come from the refusal of absolutism of modern reason. This thought is based on the ecological thinking which is life-centered. Dae-Nyeong Yun's novels are characterized by the original questions of existence and world, unique embodiment method of capitalistic 'daily occurrence', literary style of poetic sensitivity, outstanding making and plentiful imagination. His novels are produced in the process of pursuing the life-coexistence between human and nature damaged in the modern space. After all, the mythology Dae-Nyeong Yun embodied is to pursue the world where there were no conflicts before modern civilization, and to embody the world where human and nature are mixed to one entity in which boundary between the subject and the other becomes null. In addition, Dae-Nyeong Yun's ecological thinking shows the critical viewpoint of the reality which demolishes the matrix of imagination, the 'mythology'. This doesn't deny the contemporary current. Somehow, this remembers the past and comes from the utopian wish of dreaming the return to the origin. Yun-Sik Kim has called it 'physiological imagination of vital image'. So, his writing in mythological imagination doesn't revive the precedented event and experience but deconstructs the distortion of experience woven by memory. This effort to approach to the essence of existence shows the Dae-Nyeong Yun's strong desire to get out of the daily occurrence of no essence and recover the authentic subject.