주체의 장소 만들기와 소시민적 정체성 연구 - 이호철의 「소시민」을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This paper elucidated the writer's insight to go over the identity of place on the basis of Ho-Cheol, Lee's novel, 『Petit Bourgeois』. The writer shows without reserve the daily occurrence of capitalism which dominates the essence of the space, Busan through the process of novel characters' becoming petit bourgeois. So, to consider 『Petit Bourgeois』as a simple record of writer's experience in the early industrial society is to distort the writer's intention to objectify and criticize the postwar space. Ho-Cheol, Lee emphasizes that the temperament of petit bourgeois which fills the postwar space in reality symbolized by textile manufacturing factory in Busan is the real feature of the contemporary subjects. Textile manufacturing factory is described as the space where desires both to get away and to settle down are mingled: this influences the formation of subject's identity significantly. 『Petit Bourgeois』 is the work of showing how the predominating order of capitalism is formed and through which process subject accepts it as a natural daily occurrence. The process of urban subjects' losing their place is another name of becoming petit bourgeois. Experiencing the industrialization and the urbanization in 1960s, Ho-Cheol, Lee embodies the subjects who seek and lose their place to settle down through 『Petit Bourgeois』 and continues to explore implicitly in search of the society to reflect and reinforce the diversity of the meaningful human experience and to have a possibility of developing into a humane place.