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The Cloud Dream of the Nine: An Allegory on the Revolution

Choi yoon-Gyeong 1 Lim Hwan Mo 1

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ABSTRACT

The significance of the Cloud Dream of Nine is clearly emerged when we look into the work with an allegorical interpretation on a political issue mingled with the 19th of April and the 16th of May in the early 1960s. Such events actually happened over a period of a year and can be told pivotal historical incidents in the early 1960s of South Korea. However these two historic events are displayed at the same time in CDN. The 19th of April is experienced to Dok Go-MIn, the protagonist as a forgotten revolution in the narrative structure in which the temporal order has been dismissed. Choi In-Hoon apprehends the April Revolution as a source of ‘history’ since he has figured out that an energy is immanent as well as being ‘cosmopolitan’ within the sprit of the 19th of April. Such cosmopolitan communicates with the ‘sovereign individual’ in sense. 'Dok Go-MIn' represents the birth of the ‘sovereign individual’embodied life in person, in CDN, than he accepts social norms and compulsions. Dok Go-Min is now inaugurated as a sleepwalker and is excavated as a degenerated troglodyte. He then become an allegory on a forgotten revolution per se. Hence it can be significant that a certain era imputes symptoms of pathology and regression of the time to an individual. The CDN, in particular, incubates a clandestine message that the 19th of April revolution can be deserved as a part of ‘history’ and itventilates the intervention of introspective subject about the time as well. Therefore, in these respects, Choi In-Hoon's CDN has an unusual literary meaning.

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