1980년대 장정일 시의 종교성

Abstract

The distinctive writings of Jang, Jung-il have been discussed mainly based on his growth background. However, not much research has been conducted on the religious consciousness of poet, which had crucial effect on the growth of poet Jang, Jung-il and appeared frequently in his poems. Therefore, in addition to a previous study, this paper examined the religious consciousness of the poet appearing in “self-reflective writing”, one of characteristics of Jang’s poems. The religious imagery and symbols appearing in Jang’s poems are distinguished from “Jesus” symbolism of 1980s poets such as Jeong, Ho-seung and Kim, Jung-hwan. At that time, because the poets revealed their desires through Jesus, analyzing Jang’s poems in the religious context of 1980s poetry meant shedding light on his heretical mindset. It was ascertained that the heretical mindset of the poet stemmed from the religion of young Jang, which was intentionally hidden and alienated from the society as it was regarded as heresy by the orthodox Christianity. This provides an answer to a question, why Jang’s poems in 1980s are read as meta-poems, rather than to a question, why the isolated writer who exposed the private inner side wrote the meta-poems. By self-mastering a guide of using an instrument called book-reading, “Jang, Jung-il” escaped from the atonement device of literary field in 1980s. The religious imagery and symbols of his poems contained the poet’s struggle for continuously maintaining the autonomy of poems and the desire of the poet who wanted to overthrow the power that poems could possess. The religious symbols in Jang’s poems, which are represented by “Jesus” is a symbol of question for existence of physical body in the literary field of 1980s and can be read as an escaping religious heretic.