한승원 소설에 나타난 물길의 상상력과 윤리학

Abstract

It is the essay to study Han, Seung-Won‘s works from the viewpoint of ethics. Waterway and sea are very important to his works. Because all the characters living in the sea village are similar to the Janus-faced sea. Their conflicts are caused by the historical violence and the development-centrism. These factors compose the narrative of revenge and drive the endless desire of character. In this case, the waterway as a ecological life is cut by the revenge and desire, and the human relationships change from the equal relationships to the subordinate relationships. Similarly, the relationships of human and nature also are converted into the exploitable and subordinate relationships. The characters living like waterway make a conquest of the revengeful and subordinate relationships. They are the ethic heroes that try to going beyond the given social system and order.