중국문학의 자국화 방식에 대한 일고찰 - 소설 《허삼관 매혈기》와 영화 <허삼관>을 중심으로

Abstract

This study was to explore the aspects of the conversion of a foreign literary work into a localized cultural text, targeting Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua (余華), a Chinese writer of the time and Xu Sanguan, a Korean film adapted on this novel. Films are produced sensitively responding to the tastes of the public and the atmosphere of the times, since they are the texts that carry the value systems of the society and the cultural symbols. In addition, films adapted on foreign literary works are given their unique adoption strategies to adapt them to the locally cultural territories, and these strategies are decided on by taking into account the social discourses of the time, the cultural codes and the elements of the industrial circumstances around such films. Thus, the film Xu Sanguan used the stories of a father devoting his life for his family as the central structure of the narration, leaning against the wall of a cultural atmosphere that summons the sensitivity towards the past. Also, aware of the emotions of the public, a specific historic time in China which constitutes the background of the original novel was compressed into a certain space and time in Korea which lacks political and social issues. This has brought about the difference in the discourses surrounding the thematic consciousness and the text of the original novel, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant and the film, Xu Sanguan. The former tells the stories of a man who, with the mechanism of selling the blood, not only endures the weight of life given to him in the stream of China’s modern history, but confirms his existence values, while the latter puts its emphasis on the sacrifice of the father, Xu Sanguan who devotes his life for the good of his family, without passing any value judgment on the past era and history. Like the above, a consideration could be made about what the localized text were aimed at and the discourse that it was intended to hold through the process of the cultural conversion of the foreign literary work, because difference arose between the two worlds described by the original novel and the film adapted on it.