한일 여류일기문학의 보편적 문화교류의 가능성 - <한중록>과 <가게로닛키(蜻蛉日記)>의 ‘시간’을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The essential relationship between autobiography and time is one of the oldest topics that historically searched. Hyekyunggung Hong(惠慶宮洪 氏, 1735-1815) of 『Hanjungrok』(1795-1805) and Michisseunanohaha(道綱母, 936?-995) of 『Gageronikki(蜻蛉日記)』(974), they were the writers who could not escape from obsession with the time. In order to understand the literature of the Korea-Japan Dynasty, this paper tries to figure out how these two female writers managed the time with the Western autobiography in mind. I would like to question the introduction of the reminiscence and how the movement of time order was being carried out in these two works. In particular, I would like to take a look at the reminiscence and the sense of time associated with the examples of the snow and rain in 『 Hanjungrok』 and 『Gageronikki』. The time gap in 『Hanjungrok』 which Hyekyunggung recalls, is 「durée pure」 with continuity. The mechanical and spatial times of falling snow and rain are inseparable, and are incorporated by the snow and rain being recalled. Especially, The snow written by Hyekyunggung is restoring a painful and sad time lost. Hyekyunggung also precisely describes the prince’s phobia in close relation to rain in 『Hanjungrok』 4. Beyond the restriction of time and space, Haekyunggung constitutes a miserable palace life with the present feelings from reminiscence. Hyekyunggung’s reminiscence of a continuous stream of time is not just a temporary, spontaneous phenomenon, it is another experience that gives meaning to the life and existence of Hyekyunggung. In 『Gageronikki』, the snow and rain was a clearly repeated reminiscence. The reminiscence using the same expression at the present writing point, can only be described by the concept of 「durée pure」that Henri-Louis Bergson described. It is not the past as a time and space trajectory, but it is the continuation in succession with the present. Michisseunanohaha’s present is vividly restoring the lost time through snow and rain. As they grow into the only human beings who are different from others, they discover their true lives. Self-protective excuses for one’s life are being regenerated into the only and irreplaceable form of repentance. The two women’s times were replayed with unrefined innocence, covering the historical truths behind the colorful, precise language. Now we don’t have to cause party strife to see the authenticity of the two women’s past times chronologically. We could just watch them as the histories of the art.