1990년대 문학과 망각된 정동 -1991년 5월 유서대필 조작사건과 김영현의 소설을 중심으로

Abstract

This treatise considers the regime of 1987 as a “system” appearing amid some kind of shock and seeks to identify the shake caused by the impact of the system in the aspect of “affect.” The shock of the system is directly affirmed from nosedive of the Nation Security Act. The shake of such a system may also exert power to destroy an individual’s daily life, and a good example of this is “Korean Dreyfus affair Case.” At this time, it is worth noticing that the suicide note, the core of the problem in this case, was written referring to Ahn Jae-seong’s “Condition of Love.” This is because this reveals that literature has been partly intervened in the shock of the system destroying the space of individual lives. Based on this, through “Korean Dreyfus affair Case” and short stories of Kim Young-hyun, this treatise focuses on mainly on affect in order to discover how the identity of progressive intellectuals as a part of the system has influenced the space of citizens’ lives. Kim Yeonghyeon’s “Far and Far After Encounter” is very symptomatic in that it embodies self-combusting forced and the inner space of Yeol-sa who self-immolates. In addition, “The Witness” is also very problematic in that it represents the inner space of the assassin Kim Koo and quotes a suicide note by Jang Jae-wan Yeol-sa at the end of the work, depicting his journey to the place of testimony on the death of a university student. The two works offers that behind the reflective inner space of the suicide note was the affects of ‘antagonism’ caused by its attachment to transformation. When this antagonism fails to resist outward, it faces oneself and consequently turns away from oneself. In fact, if you look inner space of Kim Ki-seol, the main character of the suicide note in the “Korean Dreyfus affair Case,” his ‘turn away’ was defying the formula of the movement circles culture of ‘real name=existance’ and ‘false name=ideology.’ Kim Ki-seol referred to An Jaeseong’s “Condition of Love” when writing his suicide note, which he wanted to become an innovative avant-garde to a higher level than the avant-garde revealed in the work. This led to a turn away from Kim Ki-seol as an ordinary person who wanted to get married and have a family just like others. In the early 1990s, the movement circle’s literature unintentionally forgot the self-evident fact that no one was free from political situations. Since then, Kim Yeonghyeon’s “The Way to Haenam” which reenact May 1991 is mourning the deaths of the Yeol-sas through Ko Jung-hee’s funeral, leaning on the notion of ‘people’ that had already been discarded in “Far and Far After Encounter” as he hurriedly sealed the meaning of antagonism contained in May 1991. The affect of antagonism that Kim Yeonghyeon hurriedly sent away was the driving force of the democratic movement in the 1980s. However, as seen in the 1991 “Korean Dreyfus affair Case,” when antagonism made one’s turn away from oneself, the attachment of progressive forces to socialism unintentionally deprived someone of their place of life, thus leaving a deep scar. As such, a stir caused by the shock of the system spread out to affect of attachment or antagonism, revealing cracks of the identity of progressive intellectuals hidden beneath the surface and presenting them again a wounded attachment. However, no one would have estimated that this wounded attachment would be located stably in the regime of 1987, becoming a force granting moral hegemony to the 386 generation and an indulgence in suspending political progress.