버려진 자의 질문과 타자의 응답 방식- 박민규 소설을 중심으로

Abstract

Vivid and sincere exposure of the life of the times is evaluated as one of features in the fictions by Park Min-gyu in spite of the unrealistic and fantastic elements. It is difficult to accurately identify the reality effect of the fantasy in his fictions through the independent review on the fantastic elements themselves. Thus, this paper investigated what the fantasy in his fictions tried to suggest and what his factions aimed to suggest in consideration of the situations in 2000s by analyzing the non-fantastic works as well as the works directly exposing the fantastic elements. On the assumption that the styles of the fictions by Park Min-gyu was related to the change of life in 2000s, it was examined how to differentiate his fictions from existing fictions in the theme ‘extinction of streets and disappearance of problematic individuals’. According to the analysis, the basis of the fantasy in the fictions by Park Min-gyu was related to the exposure of capitalism which had no shortcomings. If fantasy in the existing contemporary fictions could be brought from the shortcomings behind the reality, fantasy in the fictions by Park Min-gyu was based on the other world out of the capitalistic society as the integral whole. It is the difference between existing fictions and the fictions by Park Min-gyu. Some fictions by Park Min-gyu were about ‘the disused’ as the main characters. The disused in his fictions were those expelled from the social order. In the capitalistic society which was unified and fully exposed as the exchangeable value, the border between a center and a perimeter became obscure or disappeared. Consequently, it was difficult to identify the existence of those who expressed their critical thinking on a center as standing in the perimeter. Those who stand in such a border in the fictions by Park Min-gyu are those who were expelled from a society. This paper examined how such cognition style was developed to the new cognition as keeping the distance from the integral capitalism times in the aspects of ‘questions by the disused’ and ‘parallax’. ‘The disused’ in the fictions by Park Min-gyu requests the new otherness. The other in his fictions is not the return of the depressed which was hidden inside a main agent but those who have no common rules with a main agent as the existence out of the main agent. The attitude of the disused is innovative on the aspect that the disused renovates individual identities and recognition on the difference between a main agent and the other, without making a main agent the other or vise versa. The disused is ethical because they don’t humble or take pity on their existence but advance toward the deliberation on their existence itself. In accordance with the fictions by Park Min-gyu, the critical distance could be maintained only when being expelled from the situations in 2000s wholly dominated by the capital value. His fictions demonstrated the dilemma of our times that only the disused could be truly ethical.