천운영 소설에 나타난 인물의 형상화 방법 - 소설집『바늘』을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The novel is a literary genre where human is cantered and the character is the essential core in which the writer put the theme s/he ultimately wants to convey. Since the writer includes his or her own thought and emotion in the fictional characters and makes the reader moved with its realistic figuration, the subject-matter of character figuration is a key that makes a work to be an artistic entity. Concerned with the study into the novel creation skill and the education of novel creation, I have explored in this thesis the character figuration skill in the novels of Cheon Woon Young. The aim of this thesis is to unearth the character figuration skill by the analysis of the creative skill of the writer and to examine the close relationship between the writer’s intention and the nature and behaviour of the characters. The novelist, Cheon Woon Young, from her debut through Don-A newspaper Spring Literary Competition in 2000 with her「needle」to now, has consistently shown her thought and view by vividly creating the unique characters that appear to be extremely inauspicious. This thesis has accounted for the character figuration skills in the novels of Cheon Woon Young focusing on her book『Needle』by dividing them into the presentation of appearance and behaviour (physical appearance, habit), of discourses (naming, job, hobby, tone), 외변기법(外邊技法), of the attitude towards the other, of past, and of the flow of consciousness. The characters in the novels’ of Cheon Woon Young are the women, having the ugly and odd physical appearance, with the image of disabled people who were born with innate lack. They exhibit vehement appetite, carnivorous attitude, obsession with body, violence, and aggressiveness, and they are the mark of trauma such as inferior body and imperfect family. Though their acts towards the other are diverse, they have consistency and unity in that they are formed by the desire for the instincts suppressed and oppressed. The absent family disclosed through the past and flow of consciousness, and the aggressiveness transformed from the fear and antagonism towards the world make the course of reading the characters more interesting. This is because the writer has clearly reveal the universal mental feature of the characters taking into consideration the common ground both for daily behaviour and the behaviour of the character in the novel. The thought and standpoint of the writer on some issue can be disclosed by way of the feature of unique characters in the novel, vividly described. The book『Needle』by Cheon Woon Young, creating the characters with the grotesque images who are far from the conventional women, smashing the established notions in society, and subverting the recognized value, has successfully constructed the aesthetically sublimed world of the characters with the twisted desire and lack. The thesis intends to disclose a skilful novel technique attained through the practice of the character figuration skill by examining the skill in concrete way, and explicating the close and intimate relation between the writer’s intention and the behaviour and personality of the character in the novel.