루쉰(魯迅) 풍자 개념의 미학적 가치 탐색

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore the aesthetic value of Lu Xun's concept of satire. Lu Xun refers to satire as “a record of facts.” In the Chinese literary tradition, satire has a rhetorical value that enables communication between the top and the bottom. On the other hand, satire in the Western literary concept can be said to be a kind of rhetoric stemming from the difference between reality and ideal. Since satire deals with people's attitudes toward people, things, events, realities, lives, ideals, etc., it is bound to persist wherever human communities exist. However, since individuals have different views on them, they cannot and should not be arbitrarily classified. However, it is necessary to instantly capture the attitude of each individual that appears differently depending on the situation, region, and time. In other words, the difficulty of satire lies in realistically recording the momentary aspects of human beings that appear differently depending on various conditions. For this reason, the subject and style of satire, as well as the form, are bound to be diverse. Satire, fundamentally a social literary style, cannot transcend the world. Since we, who live in society, cannot help but regard society as a living being, all phenomena or images implying social hypocrisy get a satirical effect enough just by presenting them as they are. The 'current literature' defined by Lu Xun records not only the object of our own society but also the subject of ourselves. Literature that enables reflective participation through this is 'current literature'. Lu Xun intervenes in reality through literature that records facts that must exist. There can be no indiscriminate exposure or praise of a specific object. In order to induce changes according to the moral awakening of readers who read his works, Lu Xun's writings must have artistic expressiveness that can be recognized as either a record of a specific thing or a record of a general thing. This is the reason why this paper sees satire as the creator's intellectual struggle stemming from the perception of the gap between reality and ideal.