오수연 연작 『부엌』의 원형성 탐구

A study on Oh, Su Yeon's sequential novel BuUk in Archetype

This paper is about space as taboo. proposal and salvation from Oh, Su Yeon's sequential novel BuUk in Archetype. The first meaning of Archetype in this text is space for taboo. Because of religious customs, kitchen is space with a variety of taboos in India. Before everything else, the most important taboo is vegetarianism without meat-eating, which is a religious commandment. In the text, the Japanese, Damo is a vegetarian and 'I' as woman speaker in the text and Damo live on vegetables only that is not simple liking but sublimating into morals. 'I' and Damo as vegetarian by the rule of taboo have kitchen for religious space which is unconsciously performed by taboo about food for themselves. But 'I' and Damo cannot obtain their directional happiness and satisfaction in spite of living a lonely life with eating vegetables only. As we know, suppression of a desire cannot remove the desire. The second Archetype in BuUk is space for proposal. On the contrary of the Japanese, Damo, an African, Murat buys carefully all kinds of food ingredients and eats constantly home-cooked gorgeous meal using them. We can bring up the image of a festival from the process of Murat’s cooking. The Cooking process in Kitchen is the paradoxical process for keeping the human life because making cook is killing the living things and human keeps his live by eating it. This cooking process is repeatedly ceremony in kitchen each day, each meal. Speaker 'I' is under illusion about boiling and eating Damo and Murat at the last chapter in the product BuUk. This fantasy is a scapegoat ceremony that 'I' joins a sacrificing ceremony which victimizes Damo and Murat. But this scapegoat ceremony cannot also arrive at salvation for controlling the desire because human still stays on the follower for desire. The last Archetype in BuUk is space for salvation. Though speaker 'I' and Damo eat vegetables only or eat extremely for a scapegoat ceremony with Murat, the kitchen is a 'holy place' with religious character regardless of eating behavior. But speaker 'I' realizes that eating the vegetables only or the gorgeous meal is not save himself. This realization changes suddenly the situation that he wants to be food for others. This means discovery of 'I' as victim for ceremony. The 『Bu Uk』, which is three sequential volumes of novel, show repeatedly Indian ghost 'kirttimuca' which has meaning of 'honor face' that is the principal theme of this novel. This means finally that the last victim in the world for ceremony is oneself beyond boundary of 'I' and others, which are common thread with a symbol of 'kirttimuca' who does not eat others but himself. In conclusion, this sequential novel makes predictions if human want to be willingly victimize for others such as 'kirttimuca', honor will cover the world. Therefore 『Bu Uk』 is not space for cooking only but the space for finding the human desire and for searching the possibility of removing the desire and the process of healing of soul. So we identify kitchen as the center of world because this space regains soul of human.