현진건 소설의 극적 소격과 타자성의 지향

Abstract

Hyun, Jinkeun made strenuous efforts to create the format of novels in which incorporating his criticism for colonial realities and resistance for conventionalities. As a result, he was able to establish dramatic estrangement(Verfremdung), and literary pleasure and lesson which is merging into each other. The effects of dramatic irony and estrangement of linguistic play revealed in Hyun's novel is as follows; First, dramatic irony enhances reader's recognition through dissolving stranger orientation with the point of view of an unfamiliar scene and dramatic arrangement of events. Second, estrangement of dramatic linguistic play presents recognition to realities of disillusioning through showing physical and emotional expression unfamiliarly. This effects of dramatic estrangement enhances the potentialities of making variety of Korean humor(Hae-hak) fully understood by global citizens. His works are of great significance from a standpoint that his achievement is the result of his continuous efforts to transforming the system of Korean humor but to borrow the technic of foreign novels. In short, Hyun shows new open world to readers with dramatic estrangement.