류이창(劉以鬯) 『술꾼(酒徒)』에 나타난 홍콩 도시 공간 인식

Abstract

This paper has studied the city space of HongKong expressed in Liu Yi-chang’s novel The Drinker. In the power and transference of city space, this paper studied that while main character narrator barely occupied a single rented room in HongKong space, natives―colonial subject who oppressed him occupied the city center in HongKong. The space itself which the narrator occupied as a grotty bedsit indicated that he was a marginal person and immigrant of HongKong. The city space of HongKong was divided hierarchically from city center to suburb, depending on payment capacity about space value. In the sexual desire of city space, this paper studied that the sexual desire of main character narrator exposed a highly contradictory aspect in his capacity as a intellectual who internalized urban sophistication and culture. His sexual tendency could correspond to ‘the separation between affectionate current and sensual current’ of S. Freud’s sexual theory. Actually, his contradictory sexual tendency allegorized the contradictory situation of HongKong city. In the resistance to social structure of consumption at city space, this paper insisted that novel The Drinker had the features and attributes of early version of urban novel after literature commercialization. Among the space of consumption, a bar was the space which not only had the effect of city phantasmagoria of W. Benjamin, but also exposed the social structure of consumption of HongKong city symbolically. The narrator resisted against social structure of consumption just in this place. The method was to abuse himself and to withdraw into the inner world of himself.