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Reading Byeongangsoi-ga as a Black Comedy

  • Journal of Korean Literature
  • 2024, (49), pp.63-88
  • DOI : 10.52723/JKL.49.063
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Received : March 31, 2024
  • Accepted : May 10, 2024
  • Published : May 31, 2024

Kim, Dongwook 1

1계명대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper seeks to interpret Byeongangsoi-ga as a black comedy. Previous studies on Byeongangsoi-ga have been dominated by perspectives that view it in the context of class conflicts such as ‘vagabonds’ or ‘village society’ or in the context of ideologies such as feminism. However, this paper focuses on the last sentence of Park Dong-jin’s editorial, ‘All these words were done for a laugh’, and attempts to read Byeongangsoi-ga with the genre concept of black comedy, with ‘laugh’ as the keyword. Patrick O’Neill, in his comprehensive examination of black humor in Western literature, summarizes the five modes of expression of black humor: satire, irony, grotesque, absurdity, and parody. This paper uses Patrick O’Neill’s theorem to read the black comedic features of Byeongangsoi-ga through the five keywords of grotesque, absurdity, irony, parody, and satire. As a result, it is possible to interpret the scene of Byeongangsoi’s death, the scene of DepDeuk’s grinding of the corpse, the characterization of Byeongangsoi and Ongnyeo, the characterization of DepDeuk, and the appearance of Jangseung differently from previous studies.

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