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A Study on Writing Method of Kim Ju yeong’s Novels: Focused on the Short Stories in 1970s

  • 인문논총
  • 2014, 35(), pp.33-52
  • Publisher : Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Published : October 31, 2014

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ABSTRACT

Kim Ju yeong creates the flat figures who think and act consistently from beginning to end in hisnovels. And the figures who are negative become down and out. The negative figures are completednot only by their thinking and activity but also by the narrator’s intervention. The active narratorintroduces the figures negatively from beginning, and the figures think and act in introduction to fit. That reveals the theme of his novel. Therefore, the figures work as the messengers of ideology. Moreover, Kim uses the contrast structure, such as time and space, city people and rural people,smart evil and flimsy evil and so on. Then with the active narrator and the flat figures, Kim places jealous looks and ridicule on one side but he gives piteous glance on other side. It is not the logic ofgood and evil but the confrontation of modernism and pre-modernism. Kim shows criticism ofmodernism after he prepares for the confrontation. Lastly, Kim uses a satire, reverse. He findslaughter as a satire and criticizes the ideology of violent times. A satire is largely completed byreverse. The rational citizen or the people with false consciousness cheat others for distinguishingtheirselves. This shallow cunning looks rational and successful outwardly. But it is easily weakened bythe figure who is generous to a fault and triggers laughter. Accordingly, the figures damage theirimages and become the targets of criticism and ridicule.

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