우울과 몽상- 포스트-IMF 시대 한국소설의 표정들

Abstract

Melancholy and Daydream - The Expressions of Korean fictions in Post-IMF era Kim Young chan It is the commonsense of the loss that captures Korean fictions in 2000's. At first, young writer's literatures, in which jokes, lies, plays and daydreams develop themselves lightly are products of melancholy in the Post-IMF era. For all that, their cosmos of fictional imagination paradoxically shows the possibility of new fiction that cope with melancholy which they originate in. There are practice of imagination will to relieve and realize the value of minorities who pushed or been alienated voluntarily from the center, and are exploration for opening the space of new value. For example, new possibility of Yun Seonghee's literary minimalism which has been grew in the soil of unhappiness and sorrow of minorities in this era, exists in that context. Her fictions allusively show us a point on which jokes and daydreams can meet subjective ethics that open the new way bearing and digesting the actual trauma, not remain in the self-sufficient microcosm which bury its head in the sand. And in that aspect, it is an interesting phenomenon that the change of Eun Heekyeong's fictions which had been in the center of Korean literature in 1990's are piled on the characteristic tendency of young writer's fictions at that point. And in different way, Chung Jia and Yun Daenyeong's fictions are developing their own literay exploration which can change the commonsense of the loss to the soil of possibility of new literature. Maybe the possibility of new Korean literature in Post-IMF era would come out from these various groping and exploration of fiction.