이병주 소설의 엑조티즘과 대중의 욕망

Abstract

This article focused at exoticism as a feature of Byung Joo Lee's literature. It is started from the culturalism of the author and it is expanded into the global sense and desire to the arts. Firstly, the exoticism of the author was regarded as an extension of the political mind of Byung Joo Lee who was influenced by living in the midst of Japanese politics situation in 1940s which was sensitive to the international situation, by the characteristics of the culturalism education and by approaching to the political decision in the viewpoint of global sense and identification of global political situation consistently. Such global sense has been appeared with the political problems in case of the epic novel which displays the political mind to the front. Secondly, Byung Joo Lee had accepted the culture and intelligence of the western modernism via Japan in Showa age and the characteristics of his world of culture have been expressed in creation of exotic cyber space as a free space contrasting with the suppressive reality. It has been expressed in exoticism and sensitivity of cosmopolitan when these are appeared in novelistic technique appropriate to the mid and short novels. The exoticism of Byung Joo Lee has been connected to the desire to the arts. His desire to the arts which make influence throughout his thought and philosophy has been appeared as a result from the appropriation of Nietzsche's philosophy. His wandering through the world of books and the desire to the knowledge were the same to the missing for the arts like the front and back of the coin. So many classic works which appeared at his works have the same context with the missing to the arts. The culturalism, exoticism and the contents of arts which were displayed at the literature of Byung Joo Lee were the connection to the desire to the culture which was taken place in 1960s and 1970s. The direction of the public to the culture, the habitus in exotic taste and the desire of the public to the political interpretation attracted the highest public acceptance in response to the dilettantism, exoticism and political disclosure. The sociology of best seller in 1960s and 1970s can be drawn through finding the missing for the elite culture and desire to the culture from the public who applauded greatly to the text of dilettantism with the contents of the Byung Joo Lee's exoticism and artistic philosophy.