미학적 우스꽝스러움과 기대 규범의 위반 - 손창섭의 문학세계 -

초록

In the history of Korean literature, Son Chang Seop is a writer whose narrative aesthetics are outstanding. His literary personality was strong enough to receive a literary historical evaluation of an exceptional writer, a writer with a distinct personality. Son Chang Seop deeply embodied the tragic reality of the 1950s under the themes of disaster, migration, and refugees. His novels are characterized by narrative unexpectedness and ridiculous situation settings. Their main characters are also portrayed as helpless, or show indifference to the abordities of reality. The unexpected narrative, aesthetic ridiculousness, and non-mainstream worldview aroused enthusiastic response from readers in the 1950s. Son Chang Seop’s novels look at the ethics of the existing system from an unfamiliar perspective. This unique perspective has the power to deconstruct the existing social system. While keeping distance from the tragic reality of the 1950s, this appears to criticize the established system by shaping the world viewed by non-mainstream humans. At the heart of it lies the ‘aesthetic of ridiculousness’. Son Chang Seop’s novel world is evaluated as having folklore and currentity because the novels depict the criticism of the existing system, an unfamiliar perspective, and a non-mainstream worldview. Son Chang Seop’s unique aesthetic world was evaluated as an achievement of Korean literature in the 1950s. However, after he abruptly moved to Japan at the end of 1973, his literature is sadly forgotten. This writer explored ‘San 4 Heukseok-dong,’ where Son Chang Seop lived from 1958 to 1973. By reviving the literary space of Son Chang Seop, it is expected to reinterpret the literature of Son Chang Seop. Son Chang Seop’s novel world, which has accomplished a precious ‘aesthetic achievement’ in the history of Korean literature, can be given the meaning of ‘the unexpectedness of the narrative’, ‘ridiculousness’, and ‘non-mainstream worldview’.

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