최인호의 『지구인』에 나타난 하층민 재현 방식 연구

Abstract

Choi, In-ho’s The Eearthman.(지구인) is similar to american crime stories in the early 20th century, which detect crimes and social meanings. The Eearthman is based on the real story of an armed robber in 1974. This famous story was made to a crime stories of new style that reconstructs the case and makes compositive meanings. the armed robbery happened in 1974 of Korea, when new order of industrialization rules everyday life of people. Choi’s novel shows two streams. The first is narrative of fall of character,the second is a organization of society, social order, and control power. In 1970’s autocracy system, the armed robbery was very unusual accident. But this robbery made people imagine a rupture of dictative order. The Eearthman was written by the real story and made narrative for searching the origin of the crimes and evil. What The Eearthman found is that origin of crimes is evil. Jongdae, the principal’s crime has social cause which is from absurdity. but writer excluded the sociality, and attributed all crimes to evil because of Jongdae’s evil was radical and inevitable. This point of description make the novel incomplete in narrative. Banality of evil make real Fears. Most Important device for evil narrative is gun. When Jongdae grip the gun, he was falling into evil. Gun is the Symbol of the power, rules and evil. The Eearthman’s Gun narrative reveals that as gun has imaginary identification, power of governmnet is on imaginary government system. The Eearthman has the sacrifice narrative, which showed the sacrifice was isolated by social system and in this sense, the sacrifice is the subaltern. the sacrifice was living under the inversed rule as circus. Their lives was placed in ‘makjang’(막장, ablind end), and their bodies was disabled. The Eearthman describe their lives can saved by religion.