「메밀꽃 필 무렵」의 소설과 오페라 대본 비교 연구

Abstract

Lee Hyo-seok’s novel, When Buckwheat Flowers Bloom is considered to be the representative work of the artist, being evaluated as compressively containing the essential characteristics of Lee Hyo-seok’s literature. In other words, the two keywords, human instinct and affinity with nature, are combined properly. In addition, his works stand out with his sensational and sophisticated style, close harmony between nature and nature, figures and events, and detailed composition of time and space. As such, When Buckwheat Flowers Bloom was a relatively short novel, but various narrative media were interested by drawing a longing of people’s lives and longings for their families against the backdrop of beautiful scenery. In this way, various works such as TV dramas, cartoons, plays, and operas were used as the original works, resulting in new creations. In this paper, I will compare and analyze the novel and opera scripts of When Buckwheat Flowers Bloom. In particular, we will look into the changes of 「Tak Gye-seok script」 and 「Lee Seung-won script」. When the same narrative starts from a novel and is converted to another style, the biggest change is the change of the plot. In general, when a literary work is used as the basis for an opera script, the entire plot remains intact, but the plot changes according to the characteristics of the medium. In this paper, we compare and analyze the plots of Lee Hyo-seok’s novel, When Buckwheat Flowers Bloom and the script of the opera, and what each piece is trying to convey by examining the personality of the characters and the way of accepting the motifs. The purpose of this study is to examine how the changes in media are caused by differences in media. Since the opera script presupposes a performance, all the events in front of the audience are presently present. The novel freely divides the events and arranges them according to the artist’s intentions, moving back and forth between the past and the present. In contrast, the opera must be performed before the script becomes a reality. However, the present representation has the advantage of being able to convey concreteness and liveliness directly to the audience. According to this style, the novel When Buckwheat Flowers Bloom was constructed based on the temporal momentum and plotted the past events in a retrospective manner. Or plot the plot over time. This change in plot brought about a change in the character’s personality, and also the addition and deletion of various motifs. This aspect will eventually be an example of the advantages of each medium in the media transformation of the same narrative.