프레카리아트의 실존과 주체의 구성 - 손원평의 소설 『서른의 반격』

Abstract

The bipolarization of the society and instability of life are crucial issues that we encounter. The controversy of ‘gold spoon’ and neologisms such as ‘Hell Choseon’, ‘No dap society (society with no solutions)’, ‘No-o-ryeok (much efforts)’, and ‘~ choong (a word meaning an insect)’ that have widely spread recently show that sociopolitical discussions and improvements on employment, income, consumption, distribution, and justice are desperately in need. In this era of neo-liberal globalization, we are all in the status of ‘refugees in the labor market’. The fear of survival overpowers life, and especially the rapid flexibility of labor market will produce the precariat, a new class which is expected to expand more. This paper addresses the existence of precariat and the issue of its subject constitution focusing on Son Won-pyeong’s novel “Counterattack of Thirty”(2017). It first examined the existence of precariat, an instable hierarchical being, based on Guy Standing’s discussion of precariat, and examined how the precariat form revolutionary subjects according to Foucault’s concept of ‘parrhesia’. Through this, this study reveals that the literary review of precariat is a narrative of rage towards an irrational society and a narrative that seeks critical thinking and practice at the same time.