이문구 소설에 나타난 기억 공간과 주체 재현 양상 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to consider the changes with recognition of the space in the Lee, Mun-Gu’s novel. Identity cannot be certified without the factor of hometown. As with this viewpoint, the author’s ongoing concern about hometown is resulted from critical perception on the spatial order of that time and spatial expansion according to the modernization. The farming village is simply not a space for affection any more. It is rebuilt as an idealized space for protecting anxiety to show the crisis of identity facing loss in place due to modernization. That is an author’s strategy for space which homogenizes time and all spaces named rural and urban space to arouse constantly negative modern and that Lee shows critical attitude towards modernization. First, Lee delicately reproduces in his novel how the farming village was destroyed and prevented in process of modernization. It shows that how the rural area which is a space in pure and non-politic accepts the urban ideology and makes sure to be a space where the rural area is a product of capitalism. It is remarkable that Lee was trying to weaken the impact of modernization by repeatedly exposing and reenacting the damaged space which is symbolized as hometown. The reality which is the absence of hometown interrupts distortion about the memory by accepting the capitalist modernization caused by deficiency in the middle of the history. Also the exploring the city in his novel is related with the resistance for destroyed rural area. Actually, hometown, where the place is a historical symbolism and the original form, comes from the resistance against modern tyranny. Also a descriptive strategy can be ignored as reading that hometown in his novel is simply nostalgia and admiration. Lee pays attention to the lives of subaltern identity existed in surplus and roaming in despotism and the novel is based on the critique against the power of nation in Capitalist space characterized social isolation and alienation.