김춘수의 『들림, 도스토옙스끼』에 대한 시론(試論)적 연구

Abstract

Chun Soo Kim said that he had been read Dostoevsky since his youth. Every time he read Dostoevsky, he said, he was obsessed by this great russian author. His anthology Deulim, Dostoevsky presents to us poetic imagery of his obsession by Dostoevsky. Chapter I of the anthology is composed by letters written by the characters of Dostoevsky to others. The senders are poetic narrators. The poetic narrators are transfigured and refracted by the prism of Kim's consciousness. Now I attempt to analyze how the characters of Dostoevsky are transfigured into Kim's. Raskolnikov of Kim shows repentance his sin in the letter written to Sonya. His repentance is done through Sonya's sacrifice. Kim represents Sonya as his angel. Image of angel for Kim is associated with his kindergarten days and his college days. Angel is poetic theme for Kim, and he creats various poetic transfigurations of angel. Sonya is one of them. We can conclude that transfiguration in Sonya is simultaneity of the good and the evil or one of divineness and profaneness. Then, Kim shows that Sonya can not be completed as a angel without encountering with Raskolnikov. That is why we can meet the figuration of Kim's angel, who is reflected by Dostoevsky's cosmos, through Kim's Raskolnikov and Sonya. Kim's Ivan watches God at the eyes of Alesha. That leads patricide to be a funny thing for Ivan. Murdering his father, Fodor for Ivan has similar meaning, like Rakolnikov, to killing himself. On the other hand Dmitry loves the life and nature in exile, confessing repeatedly that he killed his father. So to speak, in Kim's Ivan and Dmitry we can read the deepened Dostoevsky's theme which is that the patricide indicattes his suicide and recovery of love for life. We can meet the problems of 'history' and 'salvation', the long poetic theme of Kim in "Redundancy(Sazok)" and "History" at Chapter III, "The Iteration of Stavrogin". In this case coexistence of Stavrogin and old woman Liza becomes a metaphor of salvation. According to Kim, history is composed by this coexistence and simultaneity. Simultaneity connoted in his meanings of 'history' is conditions of Salvation for Chun Soo Kim. At the end, we can conclude that Kim's themes, for example, history, salvation and angel, are transfigured by Dostoevsky, as Dostoevsky's characters be done by Kim.