현월(玄月) 문학의 토포스에 관한 연구 ―‘이카이노’ 서사의 특징과 서사 전략에 관해―

Abstract

This paper examines the topos in all of Gen Getsu’s novels. Specifically, it focuses on the process of constructing the “Ikaino” as a topos and analyzes the characteristics and strategies employed in Gen Getsu’s “Ikaino”. The narrative in Gen Getsu’s “Ikaino” is characterized by the repetition of the same space, the resemblance of the dominant structure inside the space, and the similarities that appear in the character modeling. In addition to the narrative about the incidents and its subject, which are the driving force of the novel, the narrative about the place where the incident unfolds also significant. As a result, the place, which should remain in the spatial background, becomes the dynamic foreground of he plot, as if the place itself is the main character while the incidents unfold. Set in “Ikaino”, the novel depicts a cursed land where the forces of evil are in play and the violent incidents caused by the cursed people born there. These narratives are becoming a strategy for recalling the memories of “Zainichi”, who came to be non-visible in the Japanese society. The narrative used in Gen Getsu’s “Ikaino” is a literary method of resisting reorganization of space and oblivion, and at the same time, new narrative strategy talking about “Zainichi”.