한국 해양소설의 기호학적 해석 가능성 - 이청준, 김용성, 유홍종 소설을 중심으로

Abstract

The possibility of semiological interpretations of Korean sea novels is boundlessly open. However, discussions developed thus far on this subject have been the opposite. This is because discussions of these novels put too much significance on whether or not the experiences embodied by the authors truly existed. As a result, the chance that maritime experience can itself be an object of recognition has been excluded, and the ocean as the basis of such novels has been read only as the visible ocean itself, without its hidden meanings being detected. The problem with such myopic interpretations is that it is inevitable that authorial experiences and reproductions in novels concerning the sea need to be open and candid. Moreover, the ocean groundings in these novels cannot be intact oceans. Instead, they are interpreted and recreated oceans. This study began from an awareness of this issue and analyzed maritime novels through the semiological interpretations of Lacan, Saussure, and Perice. This analysis makes it possible for us to not only pay attention to the overlooked lives around us, but also to find out what the literary contribution of maritime novels are, particularly in Korean literature. For this, I completely accept Deleuze's contention that a "symbol is not an object of contemplation, but an object which stimulates the mental system to initiate our thinking. "Care was taken, however. Efforts were made to make sure that inducing semiology into studies on sea stories reconsidered and inproved upon the shortsightedness of old research rather than bolster-up an excessive theory for interpretation. The ultimate goal of this research is to scrutinize the relationships between the ocean, maritime experiences, and other things in life, and to discover the various meanings found in sea novels through the use of some semiology theories.