한국 소설에 나타난 부재의 기억에 대한 상상력-4․16 세월호 참사를 다룬 네 편의 소설을 중심으로-

Abstract

This study explores the way which Korean novels remember Sewolho catastrophe. This disaster has left deep scars to the survivors, bereaved families, officials as well as most of the Korean who witnessed the sinking of the Sewolho in real time and it’s still ongoing tragedy. This painful accident definitely exposed problems in our society. The society and people try their best to not forgetting the Sewolho catastrophe and keep looking many other ways to remember. The purpose of this study is to analyze, through the sociocultural mechanism of ‘memory’ in the perspective of Sewolho catastrophe, the structural contradictions of the current Korean society, and to go looking for the solution with the human empathy ability as the center. This study is to explain the meaning of Sewolho catastrophe as a motif or a subject matter in a Korean novels. This study is focused on four novels published recently. These novels aims to rethink and redefine the serious question of Korean society sinking with the Sewolho by taking ‘memory and oblivion’ into literary consideration. Sewolho catastrophe as a subject matter present profound cognitive issues of mourning and memory in recent years. These novels have adopted various types and forms of memory-related approach. Korean society need art of memory against forgetting after the Sewolho catastrophe. Literature today is after all an endless antagonism and discontented negotiation between the standard edition of public record accredited from the above and the renewed edition of resistant anti-memory.