다무라 도시코의 『여작자(女作者)』 론 - 주인공 여작자가 희구(希求)하는 삶 -

Abstract

The heroine of this novel controlled herself by making up her face and obtained her creativity from the narcissism of looking at her own face into a mirror. One day, she was not able to write any more even though she did very thick makeup and confessed her husband this trouble. However, unexpectedly, he did not disgraced attitude towards her and told that he was doubtful about her talent as author. After this, the female author became very emotional to her husband. When a friend of the author visited to her home the friend told the author that she would marry a man but would not live together. This made the author reflecting over her married life. The author projected the women who were unable to abandon their married life even though wanting liberation of themselves to the author. She also projected the new women who sought the establishment of self and was not arrested by the old customs to her friend and presented the possibility of consistency between marriage and self-enlightenment with long-distance marriage. It shows that, as women, the author struggled to be creative among many factors such as the laziness of blanked life with her husband, the conflict caused by lack of understanding as well as her fixation and fantasy towards him and of course, the passion for creative activity and the consciousness for acquisition of self. This novel stated that women’s volition is needed in order to walking on her own ways in marriage. The form of marriage should be argued comprehensively.