「洞仙記」의 志向과 소설사적 의미 - 17세기 소설 轉變의 한 양상

Dongsungi(Record of Dongsun) is a romance in the war and written, estimatedly, in the middle seventeenth century. It is recognized that the seventeenth century is a great changing period in the history of novel, and from this viewpoint, Dongsungi(Record of Dongsun) is worthy of note. Its distinctive characters are below:<BR> First, dealing with `the age of losing` after the Japanese Invasion and the Mahchu Invasions, its writing style is affected by the Fairy Tale and the Popular Versions of historical texts in the genre of China.<BR> Second, it reflected the miserable life in the war by using the technique of crisscrossing the realistic and fantastic aspects.<BR> Third, although it is in the tradition of romance as a whole, Dongsungi(Record of Dongsun) somewhat breaks away from the convention of romance in the plotting and characterizing, and even build a preceding feature toward an oncoming novel written in hangul (e.g. The Cloud Dream of Nine).<BR> For a result, Dongsungi(Record of Dongsun) is not only showing the change and deconstruction of romance also having much relations with the novels in the late seventeenth century.