크리스마스 이야기에 대한 전복적 메타픽션:‘오기 렌’(Auggie Wren) 3부작 연구

Subversive Metafiction of the Christmas Tales:The‘Auggie Wren’Trilogy

The three literary and film works featuring Auggie Wren as the main character, Auggie Rren’s Christmas Story (short story), Smoke (film), and Blue in the Face(film) show interesting narrative experiments in portraying the lives of Brooklyn people. These works are also special in that writer Paul Auster and director Wayne Wang closely collaborated to continue and expand the theme and artistic pursuits that had begun in Auster’s short story. auggie wren’s christmas story is a metafictional work that questions the nature of writing itself, simultaneously twisting and cherishing the moral values of the traditional Christmas tales. Smoke is an adaptation of this short story that expands the characters and the theme of the original work. The film develops different layers of a narrative, mixing reality and fantasy, different color patterns, etc. Blue in the Face is the spin-off of Smoke in which Wang, Auster, and the actors contributed to create the story altogether. As a radically experimental mosaic film in which fiction, documentary, and other visual images are constantly juxtaposed, this film unsettles the familiar “forms” of filmmaking. By commenting on the boundaries between truth and false, right and wrong, and asking the fundamental question of “what is a story?,” these three works become interesting metafictional texts.