「구운몽」의 판타지적 욕망

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Fantastic Desire of Guwunmong This paper studies Kim manjung's and Choi Inhun's 「Guwunmong」 from the perspective of fantastic imagination. These novels are fantasy literatures reflective of social ideology and the ways they deal with desire vary depending on when they were written. While parody may not be so apparent in these novels if we see it only as a literary concept, they have one thing in common: repetition of fantastic narrative through dream motif. They have had significant ripple effects in literary history. It is important to remember that these texts served as opportunities to criticize suppressed reality of the time on one hand, and fill an ideological gap on the other hand. This very duality may be characteristic of fantasy literature. In its ending, Kim manjung's 「Gueunmong」 punishes evil and encourages good. It is understandable, considering he was an important figure in terms of power at the time. But the narrative of desire forms a complex structure of meaning comprising ideological fallacy, people's language, and feminine identity. The subject's desire in Choi Inhun's 「Guwunmong」 has to remain in symbolic order. Nevertheless, reality of unsatisfying nature is reproduced within fantasy, and the process reveals imperfect nature of the subject. The repetitive desire of the imperfect subject is the pattern of dream that gives a form to the conditions of being. This is also the context in which Kim manjung's 「Gueunmong」 is parodied. Furthermore, attention should be paid to extra-textual conditions of the novel, i.e. the context in which the meaning of the text goes beyond the dichotomy of the classic and the modern to become that of the present. It may be said that their desire, which has had influence on the present literary field as well, carries a meaning in the literary history which goes beyond the linguistic sense of the texts.

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