소설 사회학과 생명의 정치학 - 박민규의 ＜삼미 슈퍼스타즈의 마지막 팬클럽＞을 중심으로 -

Abstract

It has been common sense that the literature or the novel doesn’t exist only as pure aesthetics. That’s why we noticed that the aesthetics and politics made inside and outside of the one, and the division existed as being deconstructed. What is seen as pure aesthetics can become the political thing by the certain point of view and the case. It shows how many potential possibilities their relationship exists with. The close connection between life and politics is embodied through the body. The physical restraint, captivity, deport, monitoring, discrimination, manipulation, distinguishment, and commercialization can be called violence to the body. As the violence is made visually as well as invisibly, it works in both consciousness and unconsciousness, and makes human life humble and painful. As the power which works politically through the body is direct and close, the human, especially the being pushed out by the power is possible to be subordinate to the power again. In this sense, the characters are problematic in ≪The Last Fan Club of Sammi Super Stars≫. They have double attitudes to assume the aspect that they are deported by the main power, and to shake the structure at the same time. Once they are moved into the structure by the main power, and they have the new possibility and potentiality to leave the structure with resistance and deconstruction. The politics are based on the life, and the life is based on the body. It is same with the fact that the novel is based on the text, and the text is based on the body. In this context, the excellent politics is made by the (un)distinguishment which means the division among the politics, life, and body is deconstructed. And the best novel is created by the (un)distinguishment among the text, life and the body. If it is the point of contact for the novel and the politics, we should focus on what are based on the life and body, such as main power, life politics, bare life, exception, discord, structure, deconstruction, vision, and prospect. The argument on the sociology and politics of the novel reached the new stage through a process of profound search and speculation.