합일(合一)에의 열망과 경주(신라)의 신화적 형상화 - 김동리 장편 역사소설 「삼국기」(상편), 「대왕암」(하편)을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study the significance of a way to overcome separation of consciousness in modern people through the unity between individuals and ethnic group/nation and its fictiveness, analyzing the violent characteristics of a community, Gyeongju(Silla), established as the mythicization of Gyeongju(Silla) embodied in “Samgukgi” (the first volume, 1972~1973) and “Daewangam” (the last volume, 1974~1975) and as time/space of unity. This paper also aims to reveal the experience in modernity, aspiration for the unity between individuals and ethnic group/nation, modern people’s homing ability to the past, a desire to overcome modernity, and the violent characteristics of the ideologies absolutizing ethnic group/nation. Kim, Dong-Lee suggested the perfect unity between individuals and ethnic group/nation as a way to overcome separation of consciousness in modern people. This way originates in fundamental human instinct to overcome anxiety and fear arising from the separation and is closely associated with a desire to revert back to the primitive time/space which is not separated. These Kim, Dong-Lee’s thoughts are most clearly shown in his full-length historical novels, “Samgukgi” (the first volume, 1972~1973) and “Daewangam” (the last volume, 1974~1975). In these novels, a desire for unity is unveiled, mythicizing Gyeongju(Silla), separation of consciousness in a person, and time/space in which with no separation of consciousness caused by death. Kim, Dong-Lee establishes Gyeongju(Silla) as a space for the perfect communication between individuals and an ethical space, and establishes Baekje and Goguryeo as an unethical space. This approach ultimately makes Baekje and Goguryeo separate entities, establishing dichotomous composition of good/evil and establishing Gyeongju(Silla),and Baekje and Goguryeo, as good and evil, respectively. However,Gyeongju(Silla) established as the time/space of perfect unity is, paradoxically,accomplished by individual sacrifice. The ideology justifying this individual sacrifice is loyalty and filial duty. These are irrecusable moral and emotional judgment norms, playing an important role in subordinating the members of a society to hierarchical order. Due the absoluteness of the judgement norms, the individual sacrifice for an ethnic group and a nation is rationalized and justified. Furthermore, the unification of Three Kingdoms by Silla was accomplished in a way of inducing voluntary sacrifice by stimulating the emotion of Shilla people, ‘Shilla people is one”. Thus, “Samgukgi” (the first volume, 1972~1973) and “Daewangam” (the last volume, 1974~1975) suggested a romantic binding process superficially,yet these novels ultimately embodied a pattern in which a person became extinct and was eliminated by ethnic group/nation. Depicted in the novel Kim, Dong-Lee on ethnic / national myth set moderns separation of consciousness to overcome essentially that for the collective interests of the political nationalism, and has the distinction of.