이청준 소설의 알레고리적 욕망 -『당신들의 천국』을 중심으로-

Abstract

This article explores how the totalization of meaning is possible while the desire of the reader and the writer and characters interacted through the narrator, focusing on Lee Cheong-jun's Your Heaven. In order to achieve this purpose, the method of salvation pursued by allegorical desire and its possibilities are explored by interpreting Brooks' concept of 'plot' and Benjamin's concept of 'allegory'. The figurative meaning of this work is first, the desire of a freedom fo Jo Baek-heon, that starts from the ruler's desire and gradually discovers a human-like life order and pursues an altruistic life, and the idealistic libertarian Lee Sang-wook's desire that transcends the relationship between domination and subjection, and the desire of presbyter Hwang Hee-baek, a realist who aspires to a community of self-sufficient and free life, forms a counterpoint topology. Second, the main character, Jo Baek-heon, transforms from a ruler who rationally manages leprosy and hospitals to a powerful politician for the reconstruction of Sorok Island, and eventually fails and leaves the island, and returns to the form of a free man who practices altruistic love. make an escape By creating a 'good fascist' called Jo Baek-heon, the artist not only echoes the reality of the Yushin dictatorship in the 1970s, but also pursues the three-term constitutional reform and permanent rule of the Yushin system, even though Park Chung-hee achieved technological modernity after May 16. It prophetically allegorizes the tragic history that follows the same process. Third, the desires of Lee Sang-wook and Hwang Hee-baek are complementary rather than opposite to desire of Jo Baek-heon. Each of these three characters desires the fate of a desirable community in their own situation and position. Finally, Lee cheong-june repeatedly uses the recursive structure of failure and frustration, leaving and returning as a narrative motive, mise-en-abyme, to realize the artist's desire for 'free order'. As Jo Baek-heon embraces the contradictions of domination and liberation, the desire of free people to overcome the contradictions has become a core theme pursued by Lee, cheong-jun after this work.