종말론자 김중혁의 소설 속에 창안되는 이야기 공동체

Abstract

When discussing the achievements of Korean novels, the keywords that have received the most attention are the other. communication, community, solidarity etc. Exploring the possibility of forming community solidarity through communication with the other was certainly one of the main tasks that Koran novels in 2000s had undertaken. But they did not carried it out, just staying at the line confirming the work because they did not ask the possibility and the way of extending individual's bondage to communal solidarity. Joonghyeok Kim looks for possibilities and methods of building the community solidarity instead of imagining it. He has recorded and described the time we have now and here, because solidarity basically has a publicity and “shared responsibility of shared future” as a key feature. For him, human solidarity is not like a value or ideological thought but a physiological desire, because this time he has found out is a crisis just before the end of mankind. Joonghyeok Kim took the task to read the sign of crisis, to inform it to readers and to make an imaginative blueprint for inventing human solidarity. His novels have a narrating style like talking to an individual reader instead of talking to a number of readers, which style may come from the intention to lead readers' responses toward being aware of crisis and building solidarity. And he believes that his novels can do a role as a forward base for building a common world as the foundation of new solidarity. In front of the threshold where the era of crisis that the world has never seen before, is coming, Joongheyok Kim imagines and proposes the building of a common world that will spread through community of stories or discourses.