황석영 문학과 대화의 종교

Abstract

This essay is about research of the religious problems in the Hwang, Seok-young’s novel and especially about communicative part of the religion. The research of the extreme literature flows to the religion. Hwang, Seok-Young’s literature’s pursuit is giving the place to communicate with the conflict problems in the actual world. But the world is not only for alive human. It’s supernatural and super-historical place that live and dead people are coexist. The Guest is the literature about inviting dead spirits by Jin Oh Kui Koot and comforts them. Also listen to their unsatisfied desires. The dead spirits are looking back through their life and explain their situation and reflect on their faults. The place called a literary work and the muti-propertied place that writer designed, the spirits are exposing their unsatisfied desires and put down their desires and sins. This novel gathered individual insistence, as one of the characters in this novel says, “If those kinds of spirit shows up then don’t pray but listen to them.” Not Saying but Listening. It makes this novel looks historical arranges, like “The History of 6.25 War” or “The History of Church in North-Korean Area.” Not like existed descriptions. On the other hand, in religious sight, this novel let us listen to the God’s voice of providence through the historical tragedy. “Yo-Sub” main character of this novel, who is a spiritualistic medium. He lead the communication between Dead and lives and he find the secret and circumstances of the “The Massacre of Shin-Cheon“. The writer’s creation has structural identity with the novel and the writer become another spiritualistic medium, and tell us the story. So for Hwang, Seok-Young, “the writer” is not someone who make the story but someone who tell the story. The conversational stregedy which make silenced Dead start speak, who become silenced because of the separated social situation. It shows the thought of writer that eventually “The Writer” is communicator of the world. However in the novel Barideki the writer found the savior who suffered from the Seosamuga’s culture and formed it to the novel and he showed the model of the female, as “Bari” who suffered from the multiple-fetter, which around universal capitalism. Those novels let us find “Bari”. Also, through the writer who suffered from the separated social situation and stand over intense life more than anyone else. Also become political refugee or imprisoned and conception imprisoned. Then who is the writer? This question make us think again that the writer is also the suffered savior and might be the spiritualistic medium who let Dead and Live communicate and also the past and present by exorcism, called as novel.