The purpose of this thesis is to clarify the character of a novel in which formed the suburb of urban novel during 1970th. In this period, an industry was developing in South Korea after a Korea War. And this change seemed to reorganize a korean socia...
The purpose of this thesis is to clarify the character of a novel in which formed the suburb of urban novel during 1970th. In this period, an industry was developing in South Korea after a Korea War. And this change seemed to reorganize a korean social structure to the industrial capitalism. With this change, the suburb of urban is appeared. And the change came out in the field of novels at that time. Especially, representative writers of this novels are Park Tae-soon, Cho Sun-chak and Cho Se-hee. In their novels they show sustaining instability, economical poverty, disorder and non-ethical aspect in that suburb. A figure of the suburb appears various contradictions of the industrial capitalism. This thesis is to study on the meaning of the suburb in their novels.
The existing discussion of novels have divided novel into a popular novel and a serious novel and then discussed in the focus of the latter. However separately this discussion, this thesis is intended to study the positive meaning of contemporary novels. For this study we need to see that a literary work is not reappearance of reality but an utterance and discourse forward a society. This sight can pull up a literary work to the action of the positive discourse and autonomous productive action by taking a writer for a subject of utterance. And this can play a role to allow a reader, passive receiver in existing theory of reappearance, with position of a positive utterance placed various social levels. The previous viewpoint of the theory is to presuppose a ideal conversation and acceptance among reader, writer and works. But this viewpoint regard a literary work as a positive intention of utterance by the writer, and the reaction of society and it's user is also revealed by their geo-political position.
In works of the Park Tae-soon, the suburb is represented as a sight of outsider. His novels is written on the purpose of the accusation of reality in a absurd situation. The suburb in his works stands for the suppression and plunder by a country and capital power. And it is intended by the political, economical condition of the society at that time. But in spite of this intention, the suburb is appeared as a form of objectification by the outsider. His sight, however, have a limit which is not talked about a inside of the suburb because of a difference between gio-political position.
In the contrast of Park, Cho sun-chak is characterizing a completely poor-looking person, portraiting the suburb. He have a young or non-moral speaker come on the stage and then describe the suburb in his works. His this intention is seemed to see the suburb as itself, rejecting the frame of cognition which a majority have.
Characters in his works may think a person objectificated completely. The writer makes them show the suppressive aspect to the suburb by the major society.
Cho Se-hee described the suburb in 1970th. And he formed a contemporary suburb and a major society, by introducing a various technique and a formal factor in his works. His purpose is to clarify that the suburb is not their problem but something to form by many class of the society. On the basis of this point, he overthrew a dominant figure in fascistic capitalism through the suburban life. As the result, the objectivity in reality is simply of representation, and he revealed that a violent suppression is in that.
Therefore the reality is became a confrontation of a social class, finally this forms a opposing aspect between a labor and a capitalist.
But Cho Se-hee searched the possibility of solution of the opposing aspect for various sides, not for one side. This effort is groping for the historical possibility to the contradiction, though he recognizes the reality as a constant place of struggle.