씨부라파의 소설 <삶의 전쟁> 속의 상처와 치유

Abstract

A Wounded Heart and Cure in the Novel Songkhram Chiwit of Sriburapha Choi Nan-Oak The novel Songkhram Chiwit by Sriburapha deals with the social change of Thailand before the 1932 revolution when Thailand began to usher in the democracy and constitutional monarchy. Accordingly, it depicts main causes of the social change at that time. The thirty three letters between Raphin and Phlun, who both are the poor intellectuals in the novel, reveal that love is also carried away by money as well as the society is full of the chaotic state of value. The world of inability and hypocrisy leaves the poor people devastated. The extreme disparity in wealth makes more bitterly the poor's heart destitute. Even Buddhist alms nothing but for the Land of Happiness after death can not take care of people who are suffering from hunger and chill so that religion fails to soothe the poor people and to provide the good spiritual nutrition for them. Rapin, who goes through the agony from the disparity between the rich and the poor, gives away his extreme unstable mental state. He desires all people are rather poor under same roof. Sriburapha's novel offers a way how the wounded heart by others can be cured. The very key does human have. There are pursuit of happiness by sharing in each other's sorrow and happiness, pleasure of life through recognizing diversities in human being's value and having his(her) own wishes realized. The author demands that confirming the identity with confidence is a basis of life.