김승옥 소설의 언어와 형식 연구

Abstract

Kim Seung-ok wrote on individual subjective conditions mostly. Most of stories in 1950's (before Kim Seung-ok) mainly described outward surroundings, but Kim began composing of inward consciousness in earnest. The conscious world excavated by this writer was referred not to substantial reality but to obscure atmosphere caused by individual psychological state. The consciousness came into ‘a world’ by Kim Seung-ok who did not record his inner life but configurate an inner world. To configurate an inner world is to compose it in words. It is contrary to ‘describe’ one's thinking. It is to ‘invest’ one's inner life with configurations. When it is configurated in words, it is also different from narration. This kind of lingual form constructed by Kim Seung-ok could be considered as consciousness-structure itself. When you write about events happened to people, you should use a word descriptively. However, when you write about inner world such as your feeling and thinking, you should create an object in words because inner worlds do not have visible forms. Kim Seung-ok's sentences created a new structure for an inner world as an established form. His stories are writings ‘constructing’ certain consciousness, not ‘about’ consciousness. Therefore Kim Seung-ok's texts are not the representations of the visual world. His language is not representative, too. There has not been articles about lingual formation and signifying language of Kim Seung-ok's writings. This article has two subjects to look into. ⑴ How the words in Kim Seung-ok's writings invested one's consciousness with configurations ⑵ What constructed the world configurated in words.