21세기 한국 소설의 라틴아메리카 소설 경향 - 황석영, 임철우, 김연수, 박형서 소설을 중심으로

Abstract

The objective of this thesis is to unfold Latin American trends overlapping with Korean contemporary novels as an interesting scene in the circle of Korea literature at the beginning of the 21st century. This study was conducted largely in two directions. One is examining how long novel A Guest of Seok‐yeong HWANG, a representative realist writer in Korea, and another long novel One Hundred Years Motel (Baeknyeon Motel) of Cheol‐woo IM, a writer who has expressed Korean shamanic flowering as his fictitious characteristic since the 1980s, meet and interact with the world of magic realism in long novel One Hundred Years of Solitude of G. G. Marquez born in Colombia, Latin America,and the other is discussing the fictional techniques of H. L. Borges overlapping with short stories in novel collections The Age of Twenty and Fictions of Midnight by, respectively, young writers Yeon‐soo KIM and PARK Hyeong‐seo who displayed a unique world of fictions in the 2000s. For these purposes, we developed the points of discussion from the viewpoint of ‘the meeting of two essences’ for Seok‐yeong HWANG and Marquez, of ‘the meeting of two ‘hundred years’’ for Cheol‐woo IM and Marquez, of ‘novel writing as the finding of the original’ for Yeon‐soo KIM and Borges, and of ‘novel writing surrounding fictions’ for Hyeong‐seo PARK and Borges. Around 2000, the trend of Latin American novels emerged as a phenomenon in Korean novels. It was probably a natural consequence of contemporary writers’ struggling with genres and post‐genres, the overturn of the center and the periphery, and blurred boundaries. Seok‐yeong HWANG, Cheol‐woo IM,Yeon‐soo KIM, and PARK Hyeong‐seo borrowed the contents and techniques of Latin American novels, but further research is required on how continuously their works internalized the characteristic properties of Marquez‐style, Borgesstyle or polyphonic Latin American novels and, by doing so, how much they expanded or determined their own line. This is why this study has been performed productively out of vital importance. In every age throughout history, there have been the phenomena of encountering and sympathizing, and overlapping and spreading with foreign novels. This study is meaningful in that it illuminated the aspects of Korean contemporary novels in the flow of world literature through tracing the origin and reality of the trend of Latin American novels emerging conspicuously through overlapping particularly with Korean novels published in the 2000s.