정지용과 ‘교토’라는 장소

Abstract

This article reviewed a series of works by Jeong, Ji－Yong(鄭芝溶) published in the 1920s, during the time when he was in Doshisha University in Kyoto Japan. The article analyzed the process of the place, Kyoto, becoming internalized into literary representational space in his works. The place Kyoto is often used as literary space in Ji－Yong’s works. Ji－ Yong lived in Kyoto for 6 years and 2 months, and he published a number of works during this period. There are 11 works in which he himself describes specifically that he actually wrote those works in Kyoto. This article looked closely into the places like cafes, night streets, Kamogawa(鴨川), and Hieizan(比叡山) in Kyoto, and examined how these places work and what kind of implications they have in Ji－Yong’s work. To Ji－Yong, Cafe is the place shut off from outside neon lights and the noise of streetcars in the city. It surely separates the inside of the cafe from the outside world and, therefore, can become the space for exploring inner side of himself. This space division is considered to have influenced the formal separation in his poem 「Cafe France」. For Ji－Yong, the Streets in Kyoto are places to stroll, but the sounds of streetcars encountered on night streets cause him to fear. Both strolling the streets and the fear of streetcar sounds are seen in his work 「Covered wagon(幌馬車)」. Kamogawa(鴨川) and Hieizan(比叡山) found in the works of 「Dahlia」, 「Camellia(紅椿)」, 「Kamogawa(鴨川)」 are also examined. Kamogawa(鴨川) is the place for his observation of people’s daily life, and Hieizan(比叡山) is depicted as poetic scenery. In this way, Ji－Yong embodies the places in Kyoto that he has actually experienced into his works.