구경꾼과 광증 발현자의 거리 - 최인석 소설을 중심으로

A Distance between lookers-on and the lunatic -With a Focus on Choi In Suk"s Novels

  I think that “the type of character” in novels is important above all. So the repeated matter of character relates “how much” the character “belongs to” the author. Choi In-suk"s novels point out the matter like this. The purpose of this thesis is to study fantasy in Choi"s novels. Taking notice of space, character and theme in his novels, I will study fantasy which is the way of showing absurd reality through the grotesque character who has monstrosity, handicap and split personality.   At first, Choi expressed a cold smile and vanity about the society as he made the lookers-on keep the violent distance of insanity in his novels. Keeping the distance doubly and trebly between looker-on and the lunatic in this space explains that the distance of them was too violent. At that time the lookers-on were too cowardly to face the lunatic with the truth.   Even though the characters" pain is every sort, they borrow insanity and fantasy as the passageway overcoming their lives like hell. Normality desires abnormality. This is not only the way separating from reality but also the way uniting with reality. The lookers-on watch the lunatic and the lunatic watches the things which the lookers-on don"t see. Because fantasy was not the lookers-on"s space, they kept the distance of reality and fantasy. But soon they began to accept insanity and made utopia, where they used to be. The moment they realize that reality can"t harmonize with unreality “happily”, we can see insanity and fantasy in Choi"s novels. I think that insanity “with” or “with necessarily” the lookers-on"s glance between reality and fantasy which look far each other is the harmony of realism and fantasy that he says.