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This article approaches the Gi-mong serial works written by Yuk Young-jeong which shows new written style in 19 century. This serial works are composed of nine short compositions. While borrowing from traditional Chinese writing, these experiment with deviations and variations in various ways. These are rare works in Chinese classical prose, because all of work has one theme and is intimately connected to one another, and one episode is reconstructed of a variety of styles. In Gi-mong serial works, the dream should be discussed in two ways. In <Seol-mong> constant changing image of dream in strongly emphasize,that can be understood as a metaphor for those fast-paced times. In others, by building fictional character-‘Whan-jin’ and ‘Goek-Hum’-that can be understood as deep desire of the writter for discovering self and deconstructing suppression mechanism. It is interesting the exploration of the deepest reaches of the human mind appeared in those times. Gi-mong serial works can be discussed in an extension of changing in literature from 18 century. Also changing circumstances of the Late 19th-Century stimulates the desire for deviation.

dream, desire, Gi-mong, 19th-Century, Yuk Young-jeong, Eui-jeon-ja