적막한 감각과 내적 평정으로서의 글쓰기 - 박목월의 산문 세계 -

Abstract

Lee, Jae-Bok. 2015. Writing with Lonely Sense and Inner Serenity - Park Mok-Wol’s Prose World. The aesthetic sense of Park Mok-Wol’s prose is formed by these things, his mild nature, the experience of lonely time and place representing Kyoungju, mental anguish from changing custom and cultural lack, existential anxiety resulted from destitution and desire of prolonging a life in practical life, self-questioning and examination through absolute solitude and meditation, and pursuing inner serenity based on god and motherhood. If his prose is focused on writer’s attitude and insight, not skill and rhetoric, the first thing that is to be noticed is ‘lonely sense’. That is the sense is on the loneliness, and it is connected to inner affluence and maturity again. In this point of view it is one of his aesthetic principles on the prose. The passage on his confession about his prose and writing makes the loneliness expand strongly. Expressing his writing with terms such as ‘night’, ‘silence’, ‘unlimited rolling’, ‘expansion’, and ‘termination’, he recognizes that writing belongs to him absolutely and it makes his life happy endlessly. His recognition substitutes writing into life and birth (rolling), growth (expansion), and termination, and brings the attribute of desire clearly. Then the loneliness is not temporary, but the esthetic material representing his consistent living or writing. In this point of view the loneliness can be said to have directivity. It is the loneliness, when the writer’s consciousness goes forward for something. As the loneliness has positive meaning, not the negative one, the lonely desire and wish are also recognized to be positive.