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A study on the narrative characteristics and fantasy represented in Kim Lae-sung’s collateral detective story

김영성 1

1한양대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to analyze the narrative characteristics and fantasy represented in Kim Lae-sung’s collateral detective story. In that it describes the story of crime, Kim Lae-sung’s collateral detective story are distinguished from classical detective story. Those properties was derived from artistic recognition. Kim Lae-sung wanted to show the romantic sensibility and grotesque in his detective novels. To achieve such goals, he was accomplished by a variety of narrative methods such as foregroundding ‘story of crime’ and narrative trick. Through the narrative strategy that is different from the classical detective story, Kim Lae-sung was to provide an aesthetic experience of grotesque fantasy to the reader. The grotesque fantasy is the literary orientation that distinguishes Kim Lae-sung’s collateral detective story and the classic detective stories. Also, it is a mark showing the limitations contained within the genre of detective story. Thus, it was born at the point of collision from mission as an artist to fate as a detective story writer. Kim Lae-sung’s collateral detective story was born between popularity as a detective story and artistic as a literary and artistic, grotesque fantasy was born between the reality that people living and the illusion that people dreaming. Therefore, the narrative characteristics and fantasy represented in Kim Lae-sung’s collateral detective story is not a product of ignorance of the genre, but is the product of artistic recognition that overcome the genre conventions of classical detective story.

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