같지만 다른 이야기 ― 《醒夢駢言》의 《聊齋志異》에 대한 답습과 변용

Abstract

In reproduction of Yojaejiyi(聊齋志異) into Seongmongbyung-eon(醒夢駢言), it is true that the form and structure of narration and the theme change, but the most obvious and definite change appears in the ‘contents of narration’. The ‘change in contents of narration’ can be characterized in various ways, but largely there are ‘amplification’, ‘reduction’, ‘expansion’, ‘conversion’, ‘addition’, and ‘deletion’. When looking at ‘difference’ as a broad sense, ‘following’ the original work could be included into the expanded range of change. Considered to be at the opposite side of ‘transformation’, ‘following the original work’ has a characteristic of ‘being identical’, while ‘transformation’s characteristic is ‘being different’. However, such being ‘identical’ and ‘different’ do not conflict, but rather they reflect and embrace each other. Unlike ‘following the original work’, which is a narrative characteristic that inherits or maintains the original contents, ‘transformation’ has a narrative characteristic of reproducing the original contents in an artistically different way. In the narration method that modifies the contents from the aspect of ‘transformation’, a character or an event changes, a totally novel character appear, or a unfamiliar content is added. Among the techniques that actively utilize such ‘narrative changes’, there are ‘amplification’, ‘reduction’, ‘expansion’, and ‘conversion’. The procedure in which such methods are actively used can be described to be ‘the beginning of the change’. In ‘the beginning of the change’, there appear changes in the characters and their numbers, actions, and minds ; changes in the points of view, targets of description, orders of the contents, and the subjects of narration; or expansion or reduction of the quantity or story of the work. The ‘change in contents of narration’, which can be considered to be the ‘beginning of the change’, maintains the fundamental structure of the original work as much as possible, so that the description of the contents is similar but still different, and this is related to the author’s so-called ‘narration strategy’, or ‘narration planning’. While maintaining the original contents at superficial level, the author intends to reflect the reactions to the readers and trends and to include the sociocultural needs and change into the contents appropriately. The narration techniques used here are transformed both simply, as in ‘the beginning of the change’, and more carefully and skillfully than the techniques applied directly. Additionally, by arranging the change in narrative contents complexly and organically, the author shows high narrative artistry, and at the same time, he/she changed the contents of the work more multi-dimensionally through a variety of changes in the contents.