서기원의 「마록열전」연작 연구 -풍자를 통한 복수의 비판을 중심으로

Abstract

Marokyeoljeon is a series of five short stories Seo Kiwon presented from 1971 to 1972. All stories of Marokyeoljeon shows speaker's critical point of view through satire. Satire is type of texts criticizes negativity of reality in text standing on the basis of reality. The constructive principle of satire could be expressed that the narrator criticize indirectly the negativity of reality in the story. The text having this satirical construction comes to display aggression to the negativity of reality in the story. However, in this case reality in the story is a aspect of reality selected and streamlined by the narrator rather than the realization of general reality. Therefore aggressive and destructive of satire text is construct and criticize stereoscopically the negativity of reality through critical points of view. They are two critical points of view staring the negative reality and character in Marokyeoljeon. Multiple critical points of view are described with irony through time-error, parody of the biographies of medieval times. These critical points of view signify Korean society where the military regime rule in the early 1970s, We do because we can . In spite of political pressure at this time, indirect narration through satire made it possible criticism of reality. However, the problem is the critical point of view for characters don t interrelate with the critical point of view for reality. The reality in the story is described critically on the basis of Korean society in the early 1970s, characters are represented critically on the basis of their weakness and the materialism of the petit bourgeois. A fact that two critical points of view don t expose the complex aspects of reality. This fact is resulted in entire negation. Narrator only speaks in a aggressive tone negativity of reality and characters in the story. Consequently the criticism of negativities stay in an abstract level. This is the result of the author s disillusionment. Disillusionment that can not make a proper standard of value on reality is entire negation to reality. In the early 1970s, the oppression of Korean society kept the author having appropriate standard and brought about disillusionment. Therefore we can conclude these facts made a unique structure of satire in his stories.