1980년대를 ‘가볍게’ 소비하는 방식들- 1990년대 공지영, 김소진, 김영하의 소설을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Following the 1970’s and 1980’s, Korea's political situation was in an abnormal political situation called military dictatorship. The efforts and sacrifices of those who have a sense of resistance to this abnormal political situation have brought about democratization in the 1990s. Since then, Korea will had a foundation for the expression of 'personal' that was not revealed by the discourse. It was also the postmodernist trend that influenced the expression of this 'personal' that was in the 1980's that led to the resignation of the realism that took its place. characterized of postmodernism is by breaking down the boundaries between high-end and the public. This led to the emergence of 'personal' called the public. Gong Ji-young, Kim So-jin, and Kim Young-ha want to used the 1980’s lightly to reveal these 'personal' characters in their novels. The lightly consumption of their choice of the 1980’s is not just an attempt to caricature the past. Their choice was to establish the identity of the novels of the 1990’s. in addition, through the establishment of the identity of the novels of the 1990’s, the novel was intended to Search for a directional to pursue. There are two ways the three authors chose to spend the 1980’s lightly. The first is to reveal an 'personal' that was weighed down by the big story. By revealing the story of an 'personal' that could not be revealed, it was meant to show a cross-section of the 1980’s. Through this effort, the wanted to give value to the 1980’s. The second is the current point, the 1990s, of summoning the 1980s and consuming them lightly, and looking at the characteristics of the 1990’s. The 1990’s and 1980’s were adopted as binary opposition, and were taken to see what the 1980s meant by the 1990’s. Through these two methods, we are going to look at the meaning of the 'lightness' of the 1990’s novel.