부재(不在)를 향한 끝없는 갈망 = 이청준의 연작 《남도사람》 다시 읽기

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This paper reflects the existing researches on this work, which are excessively romantic explanation, had a different explanation. This paper is aimed to read Lee Cheongjoon`s KNamdo people> series all over again through deconstructive speculation by Derrida. This work, reading Lee Cheongjoon`s novel all over again through Derrida`s speculation, adds another `misreading` after all. Defining the theme of this series is both romantic and mythical text, 〈Namdo people〉 is much critic to civilization and is related to thoroughly tragic recognition of reality. In brief, 〈Namdo people〉 was written continuous searching for the appropriate `language`. It showed the true searching process to take degraded words in degraded times. In this searching process, it showed incantation of Namdosori (Syeopeonje) and life of Namdo people. And the critical mind about the language was spread over the writing novels by writer himself. Through eternal longing for the absence like `Syeopeonje` , `song`, `Seonhakdong` , `tree`, it revealed the meaning this series revived ironically, like `lost words`, `traveler` and `bird`. Therefore, on the contrary the existing explanation. the writer did not present amicable settlement to the quest and searching. His sincere `language` searching through 〈Namdo people〉 was never completed but was left in aporia. In this repeated longing and frustration, his novel did not provide correct answer but raised a new question. On this point, his novel has always `raised a problem`