최인훈 문학 초기 중단편의 원형적 성격과 그 확산의 양상

Abstract

Choi In―hoon's Early novella and short stories before 『Square』 are texts having characters as sources of waters througout his author life. These works have romantic tendencies and an insight into the history, will of engagement to the social reality, modernistic quality, narcissistic tendency in his desire to be perfect self. This article researches how Choi In―hoon's Early novella and short stories to evolve various aspects after primarily focusing on the identification of these attributes. The Square is a work his engagement will explodes like fireworks as his desire to participate social reality after meeting the 4⋅19. This work shows romantic tendency for utopia and the writer's consciousness of this work located on the boundary points between imaginative world and symbolic world. His interest having critical mind on political problems is stretched to the modern planning wants to establish subjectivity of the Korean Society and the literature since 4.19 is frustrated by 5.16. The Nine dreams like clouds not only shows suffer of struggle into the entry of symbolic world but modern man's self―division, chaos and crisis disappeared priori totality affter frusteration of 4.19. This work is the first step of archaeological exploration to seek the identity of the Korean society and Man. This exploration is continued Grey man, Journey for westwad, A day of novelist Kubo, storm and attains one complete system. These works explore the Korean culture and artistic type, and are the courses to aware absolut existence of literary works in addition to being products of journey others penetenerate into subject. This exploring is materialized by a play like Once upon a time, Whaai Whai to rescue others at the expense of the Self. This drama complets the artist's journey like ulysess matching the theme of self perfectness with universal salvation.