이청준의 병신과 머저리 에 대한 대중적 해석 검토

A Review of the Popular Interpretation of Lee Cheong‐jun’s “A Fool and an Idiot”

This study explored the issue of popular interpretation of Lee Cheong‐jun s “Fool and an Idiot , and discussed some points to be considered to educate his work properly. The popular interpretation of “A Fool and an Idiot is widely accepted by the public and is an interpretation presented to students in the literary classes. The contents are as follows. Having suffered 6·25, the mentally (or heart‐ brokenly) wounded brother is a fool whose sore part is obvious, and the younger brother is an idiot because he does not know the cause of the pain or is sick even though there is no reason to feel pain . This interpretation seems to be a twisted result from some early mixed up interpretations of “A Fool and an Idiot . In particular, the popular interpretation of “A Fool and an Idiot is that among other early interpretations, Cheong Yi du’s interpretation explicitly took a part in contrast with brother and younger brother. With that contrast, Cheon Yi du s explanation that Lee Cheong jun attempted to allegorically symbolize the literary or author’s consciousness in the 1950s and the criticism of the literary or author’s consciousness in the 1960s was erased. As such an explanation of Cheon Yi du was erased, a popular interpretation of “A Fool and an Idiot can be mistaken for the result of reading “A Fool and an Idiot as a realistic novel, and thus, many questions of formalism or reflectionism cannot be avoided. Reading novels properly in novel education means reading the text and internalizing the result of reading. As the popular interpretation of “A Fool and an Idiot seems to be presented as a unique and valid interpretation of this work, it prevents students from reading and internalizing the work, “A Fool and an Idiot . To utilize “A Fool and an Idiot as a material for novel education, students should be able to have the motivation and opportunity to read and internalize this work. To do so, we must first explain to the students what the popular interpretation of A Fool and an Idiot has been, and that the interpretation is not the only interpretation.