톰 스토파드의 『말퀴스트 경과 미스터 문』에 나타난 History / His Story를 중심으로
History and His Story in Tom Stoppard's Lord Malquist & Mr Moon
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Tom Stoppard's Lord Malquist & Mr. Moon has been buried in oblivion since it had little attention from readers and critics. This essay attempts to inform readers of his unknown novel and to examine it as a metafictional novel to problematize the representations of historical writing based on realistic representation aesthetics. In the novel a historical event of Winston Churchill's funeral is juxtaposed with a person's happenings on the day of a funeral. It is known as one of Stoppard's favorite two devices used in his plays ranging from 1964to 1974. The protagonist Moon is presented as a historian and biographer working for Lord Malquist. In writing his notebook and journal, he distorts and exaggerates the events of the past. By exposing Moon's biased journal in a narrative within a narrative, the novel reflects subjectivity and arbitrariness of historical writing in conflicting with the delusion of objectivity of history writing. Furthermore, two minor characters of the novel. ‘the Risen Christ’and Slaughter, clarifies the fact that the authority and objectivity of history derives from cultural conventions. ‘the Risen Christ’ looks unlike a fixed image of Jesus Christ. A cowboy-looking ‘Slaughter’,an actor playing a cowboy advertising canned peas, is clumsy with a horse. They challenge our stereotypical ideas about Jesus Christ and cowboys stereotyped in Jesus movies and Westerns. And the scene in which ‘the Risen Christ’ asks Moon to write the fifth Gospel suggests that writing Malquist's biography makes no difference to writing Gospels describing the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Stoppard elucidates that writing history is a fictional act of reconstructing the past subjectively.
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Tom Stoppard's Lord Malquist & Mr. Moon has been buried in oblivion since it had little attention from readers and critics. This essay attempts to inform readers of his unknown novel and to examine it as a metafictional novel to problematize the representations of historical writing based on realistic representation aesthetics. In the novel a historical event of Winston Churchill's funeral is juxtaposed with a person's happenings on the day of a funeral. It is known as one of Stoppard's favorite two devices used in his plays ranging from 1964to 1974. The protagonist Moon is presented as a historian and biographer working for Lord Malquist. In writing his notebook and journal, he distorts and exaggerates the events of the past. By exposing Moon's biased journal in a narrative within a narrative, the novel reflects subjectivity and arbitrariness of historical writing in conflicting with the delusion of objectivity of history writing. Furthermore, two minor characters of the novel. ‘the Risen Christ’and Slaughter, clarifies the fact that the authority and objectivity of history derives from cultural conventions. ‘the Risen Christ’ looks unlike a fixed image of Jesus Christ. A cowboy-looking ‘Slaughter’,an actor playing a cowboy advertising canned peas, is clumsy with a horse. They challenge our stereotypical ideas about Jesus Christ and cowboys stereotyped in Jesus movies and Westerns. And the scene in which ‘the Risen Christ’ asks Moon to write the fifth Gospel suggests that writing Malquist's biography makes no difference to writing Gospels describing the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Stoppard elucidates that writing history is a fictional act of reconstructing the past subjectively.
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