이청준 소설에서의 자의식적 서술과 자기반영성 : 『축제』(1996)를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper is to study about the self-conscious and self-reflexivity in fiction by Lee, Chung-Joon, focusing on The Festival. Especially this paper pays attention to the properties of metafiction. It constructs the dual structure: the writing of story and the story of writing. This structure is the narrative device that betrays the expectation of illusion and disturbs the absorption toward the virtual world. Besides the meta-narration and self- conscious narration lead to the world the border which separates between the real and fiction. In self-conscious metafiction, the narrator becomes a character, a critic, a theorist and an author. In The Festival, there are the first person narrator and the third person narrator but the aspects of narration by the narrators are undiscerned. So the same meaning and interpretations are emphasized repeatedly by the self-conscious and meta narration in a frame structure. In film, there are cinematic self- conscious devices instead of eliminating the critical narrations belongs to fiction. Especially an fairy tale inserted in film shows the cinematic self-reflexivity interfering illusion. While fiction is the genre where the language of the narrator governs the narrative, the dominant factor in film is the visual image. The narrator dominates the narrative in fiction becomes weak in film and other characters come to the surface. Also as a cinematic device, the frame in outer frame leads to different ending scene from ending of fiction. These differences in fiction and film extend the reception esthetic of readers and audiences.