해외개척 대도(大盜)설화의 소설 유입 양상과 의미 - 〈허생전〉과 〈홍길동전〉의 경우

Novel inflow pattern and meaning of Thief story with Building a kingdom abroad

  The purpose of this paper is to figure out the pattern of the development abroad thief story and how these stories improved to 〈Husengjeon〉 and 〈Honggildongjeon〉. The relationship between Island and thief is supposed to be closed to the time as late Chosun era. And the study results are as followings;   Firstly, in late Chosun, there was increased interest in big thieves, who were highly regarded as Good thieves. So some scholars who couldn"t come true their own wishful thinking became the chief of the thieves and took valuables from the corrupted officials. These weird life style was regarded as an ideal one among social trends.   Secondary, this social trend brought an island in the middle of the sea instead of mountain as a stage for thieves, and some moral scholars were interested in guide of thief groups in a good way instead of one by using criminals. They"d like to build ideal kingdom by using the labors of the thieves. 〈Husengjeon〉 is a representative work for this.   Thirdly, 〈Honggildongjeon〉 was regarded as this kind of work but this was created 150years ahead of 〈Husengjeon〉, but there were some doubts and some weird changing happened to the latter half of this work. Original work written by author Hukyun doesn"t any contents like 〈Husengjeon〉.   Forth, there are some records in "Bo" 『Haedongijeok』, which has a description on Honggildong who was regarded a great and he built a kingdom abroad. This record can be compared to other historical facts and other edit of 〈Honggildongjeon〉. Then this contents were added in late Chosun reflecting those era social trends.