이상(李箱) 문학에서의 여성-동물과 여성-인형의 ‘몸’들

Abstract

The surrealistic metamorphosis frequently shown in Lee sang’s literature, are representing the newly transformed and formed body, instead of a body as an object of knowledge in modern medical science, and a fixed and stabled entity. Especially, it is valuable enough to newly pay attention to metamorphosis in Lee sang’s literature as it is represented through the mediation of woman’s body. In Lee sang’s texts, the imagination of metamorphosis through woman’s body is revealed in the form of woman-animal and woman-doll. In case of woman-animal, the woman-spider and woman-bird are the results of cross-sectional thinking that transcends the species, and representing such grotesque bodies that could run away from the reality. Meanwhile, in Lee sang’s texts, woman’s body is sometimes represented as automata which is a controllable clockwork doll or a puppet with strings. This inhuman body similar to human body is composed of inorganic matters, which represents a terrifying body different from animals. Even though the woman-animal and woman-doll mediate the deconstructive thinking that disturbs the boundary between human and non-human in Lee sang’s literature, the body of woman-doll is not free from the male subject’s desire to dominate others, especially, women. The desire to dominate woman’s body represented into doll, shows that the vestige of being humane the male characters or male subjects could not give up to the end is remained as a trace of masculinity in Lee sang’s texts.