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다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Seo has been an active writer for about forty years. With fifty or so short stories and three novels including "Dal Gung", he has sought for change all along the way while achieving a steady recognition from the public. Given that his works have shown a consistent approach, the thesis tries to analyze the works from the writer's perspective, in particular, from his linguistic approach.
The thesis regards in general a writer's linguistic approach shows the way he understands the world surrounding him. An analysis of which words he chose over others reveals his ideas toward the world.
From the words and sentences Seo frequently used in his works, it can be said that his approach is of dichotomy. In other words, he divides the world into two; one is substantial (which is reality, fact, essence, or called A herein) and the other is ideological (which is not substantial or called B herein). Seo believes that A should be equal to B. He sees that a phenomenon known as 'degeneration of words' in which words in B conceal and disguise those in A shows a corrupted and confused world, which resulted from one's failure to duly recognize A. In his works "Road To Kum-San Sa" or "Nightmare" he criticizes this phenomenon by show-casing that words failed to represent 'reality.'
In his early works not influenced by existentialism, characters are described as having failed to recognize the world as it is or as what is close to A. According to him, many being absorbed in their own perspectives, do not realize that theirs are disguised by social customs or desires that originated from B. The characters described in "River", "Naju Daek", "My Town" live in an unrealistic world of their own making or imagination, which reduces their lives to be repetitive and customary. In the works, Seo prizes a relativistic approach which respect different perspectives. By relativism, he does not argue that anything can be right. Rather does he create 'a universal value' and shows that relativism is a means to reach the value.
Seo's own relativism has been reshaped during the unstable period of the 1980s to stress the importance of 'cognition.' In his work "The Azalea Festival", Seo uses unusual syntactic structures to show a logical structure to duly recognize 'reality' and tries a 'form of dialogue and argumentation' where different perspectives are respected. This new form is also used in "Dal Gung" and further developed into a new one that is quite strange from the traditional syntactic point of view. On the surface the form used in "Dal Gung" may seem to be contrary to realistic literature. A closer look provides, however, that the writer's tendency to realize 'substance' as close as possible is materialized in the form of its seemingly objection to the traditional grammar system.
Seo's works, stretching from well-refined, beautiful short stories through novels of ungrammatical sentences, are the very achievement to show his perspective with words.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• I. 서론 = 1
• 1. 문제제기 = 1
• 2. 연구사 검토 = 3
• 3. 연구 방법 및 범위 = 9
• II. 작가의 관점과 사유의 전개양상 = 16
• 1. 사유의 전개; 존재론에서 인식론으로 = 16
• 2. 언어관; 세계인식의 방법론 = 24
• (1) 세계의 인식, 그 사유방식으로서의 언어 = 24
• (2) 의사소통 행위로서의 언어 = 30
• (3) 이데올로기적 현상으로서의 언어 = 32
• 3. 문학관; 실체에 접근하려는 예술의 의지적 경향 으로서의 리얼리즘 = 35
• III. 작품세계의 변모과정과 그 의미 = 37
• 1. 인간 내면의 실존적 탐구 = 37
• 2. 현실 과 비현실 의 세계 = 41
• 3. 존재를 규정하는 조건들 = 48
• (1) 사회적으로 구조화된 이데올로기적 조건 = 50
• (2) 일상과 일탈의 공간 = 54
• 4. 새로운 형식과 총체적 실체의 구현 = 58
• (1) 대화와 논쟁의 형식 = 58
• (2) 실체와 모방 사이, 보편적 인간상의 구현 = 64
• IV. 결론 = 72
• < 참고문헌> = 74
• < Abstract > = 78