지식인과 제국주의 = 조지 오웰의 버마(Burma) 체험을 중심으로

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This article starts from locating George Orwell’s Burmese experiences in the context of his everyday and literary life which expands across a quarter century. It asserts that the guilty feeling he had obtained in Burma where he spent 5 years as an imperial police exerted decisive effects upon his later life as shown in his various descending adventures and literary works. Orwell’s life after Burma was incessantly haunted by recurrent feelings of wrong-doing which he and British imperialism had inflicted upon Burmese people and originated mainly from “equality without intimacy” that, according to him, represents the fundamental hypocrisy and contradiction of imperialism. To a significant extent, his descending adventures into the victimized world after he returned to England and most of his literary activities based upon them can be seen as part of a long journey to exorcise his guilt through his self-inflicting tortures. Such an attitude also fits well with his diagnosis of intellectuals mostly as power-driven people of which he feels himself part. When this article defines Orwell’s view on life and literature as “radical pessimism,” therefore, it intends to include in that concept, among other things, his radical manner of living and writing in which Orwell, as a human being and also as a writer, disciplines himself in the most extreme and harshest way.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 버마체험의 위상
• Ⅱ. “평등 없는 친밀성” : 죄의식의 근원
• Ⅲ. 급진적 비관주의: 입장 그리고 속죄 혹은 해원(解寃)의 방식
• Ⅳ. 글을 맺으며
• 참고문헌
• Abstract

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