폴 오스터의 『선셋 파크』에 나오는 버려진 사물과 신체들의 정동의 역학 연구

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This study purports to closely read and analyze Paul Auster's Sunset Park mainly focusing on the function of affects among characters whose lives resonate with broken, abandoned things. As theoretical scaffoldings, this essay utilizes various theories related to affect and thing such as Stoicism, Deleuze's reading of Spinozian idea of affect, Heidegger's philosophical understanding of ontological mood and his theory of thing, Walter Benjamin's philosophical speculation on history and melancholia, etc. The historical background of the novel reflects ‘sub-prime mortgage crisis’ in 2008 when young people got enraged for the corruption and the failure of American capitalism. Miles, the protagonist of the novel, goes through turmoil of growing- up escaping from his guilt and middle-class life. Miles's journey is saturated with ontological affects-homeliness and melancholia. Bing invites Miles to his seemingly utopian place at Sunset Park, an abandoned house where Bing live with Ellen and Alice illegally. This illegal occupation evokes each one's hidden desire, which turns out to ‘affect’ all occupants in the house. Miles and Morris, Mile's father, also find the way to restore communication realizing the stoic ethics of‘amor fati’ and ‘seize the day.’ Yet all utopian dream of the occupants shatters as the police brutally suppress and arrest them. Miles, on the way to meet his father, decides not to run away any more and live in the present.

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