한강 소설에 나타난 애도와 원한 연구 - 장편소설 『소년이 온다』(2014)를 중심으로 -

Abstract

The article aims to read the long novel The Boy Is Coming by the Han Gang from the perspective of condolence and resentment. Through this article, the novel is reinterpreted from the perspective of personal resentment and condolences, unlike existing reading, which has understood from the social aspects such as the impossibility of testimony by Giorgio Agamben and the affect theory of the Gilles Deleuze. This paper first notes that The boy coming is adopting the second person narrative in terms of the narrative technique. The second person ’You’ used in the novel is a symbol referring to the main character Dong-ho boy and the constant naming of ‘You’ by people translates into the writer’s intention to evoke the unjust death of ‘You’ and mourn the resentment and resentment of ‘You.’ In this way, this paper’s view is that the novel has literary achievements in summoning and mourning individual resentment before forming a social network such as affect. To illustrate this, Chapter 1 first critically examines two aspects of The boy coming - the impossibility of testimony and the reproduction of memory, and affect as a social emotion. It then sheds light on the narrative effect of the novel as a second person narrative and proves the writing of condolences through individual texts. This paper looks at the ghost theory raised by Jacques Derrida, and states views that the people who were with Dong-ho boy in the 5·18 called the ghost of ‘You’ who died, and the mourning process involved in the task of survival of the subject. Chapter 3 interprets anger and resentment, which are the leading emotions of this novel from the point of view of Jean Améry, who argued for the legitimacy of his resentment as a Holocaust writer. Ameri identifies the resentment seen in victims of genocide, such as 5·18, as an ethical sentiment asking for justice to be realized.