주원(朱文), <나는 달러가 좋아(我愛美元)>에 나타난 세대 갈등과 당대 문예 쟁점 고찰

Abstract

This study examined the aspects of the conflict between the new and old generations in China after reform and opening through Zhu Wen(朱文)’s representative work ‘I like the dollars’ in the 1990s, and considered how the conflict described by the writer in the work implies the possibility of ‘communication’. In addition, this study examined what the author is thinking about such conflicts, based on the fact that such aspects of old and new conflicts and communication are similar to those between different literary ideologies in the the ‘Debates on the Humanistic Spirit’. In the novel, the narrator and his father are always at odds over the issue of ‘money’ and ‘sex’, but such confrontation does not damage their strong affection and compassion in the slightest. Their ‘communication’ constantly causes ‘discord’, but that ‘discord’ drives continuous ‘communication’ between them. Moreover, the generational conflict portrayed in this work serves as an allegory for the literary debates unfolding in the contemporary literary scene. Zhu Wen indirectly reveals his own position on this debate through the narrator, who is an anonymous writer. The writer’s literary view in the work is characterized by exploring the possibility of solidarity with each other by showing the existence of others who are alienated from rapidly changing society rather than blind hedonism or secularism.