이청준 소설의 액자소설적 성격 연구 ―「병신과 머저리」를 중심으로

Abstract

Chungjun Lee's attitude of recognizing reality that he understands it in various aspects and explores the truth of life is expressed as a polyphonic discourse of constructing a text and a stratified descriptive situation. In particular, his consideration of the aspect of effective statement is closely related to the question of narrative communication of 'how' to convey the shape of the truth he himself has got, which is revealed through the roles of a frame narrator and readers. The conflict of 'me' in a frame layer forming the main axis of this novel is made the foreground not only in the novel of 'an elder brother' introduced in the layer of the internal story but also in the elder brother who writes such a novel and in a polyphonic discourse through 'Hyein's letter' which 'I' comes to get in a frame layer. Through such a polyphonic discourse I am changed into the reflective subject who slowly confirms the conflict internal to me and deepens it. On the one hand, the internal story controlled by a frame narrator is conveyed to readers through the aspects of various descriptive situations, that is, objective summary description, direct quotation, annotative description and the description as an editor, and the effect of distance control by them. Eventually, his flexible attitude of recognizing reality through objectifying a speaker and his structure of a frame story in which he induces his readers to actively participate in it form one primary feature of his world of novel.