『금오신화』, 「취유부벽정기」에 나타난 민족의식과 낭만성

Abstract

This writing regarded 「Chiyububyeokjunggi」 as part of a larger text Geumoshinhwaand considered its theme, aesthetics and relations with these two. 「Chiyububyeokjunggi」,placed in the third or middle of the five chapters collected in Geumoshinhwa, connectsthe previous two chapters in relations between characters, unreal nature of characters,background in time and space, process of ending, etc. in lesser emotional intensity toprepare the two subsequent chapters. While the previous two chapters are the story aboutthirsting for each other in human desire, heroes of this chapter gets over this to stand beforehistory of a people. Though admitting that the brilliant history of Chosun and Goguryeohas passed away with only a crumbled trace left, Hongsaeng and the fairy grieve over itstransience to reveal the tragedy. However, these people look back on the trace of the oldcapital, feel self-esteem from the past and miss it. The fairy represents the past while Hongsaeng the author. Though the past is over, the author exercises his imagination and calls out the personified past―the fairy. In this way, Bubyeok-roo becomes the space in rapport between the past and the present, the heaven and the earth, which manifests romanticism. The aesthetics of this chapter lies in fusing tragedy and romanticism by means of a people. Unlike the previous two chapters buried in personal relations, the epic that has come out into the plaza of a people’s history has finished the readiness to proceed to the subsequent two chapters of governing dream and cosmic order.