Sang - ryoong Park is the novelist who embodied a metaphysical theme in his novels. His metaphy sical theme may be, in shorts, summarized as a death and a resuscitation. Such themes of Mr. Park's novels have formed the main stream in his short and mid...
Sang - ryoong Park is the novelist who embodied a metaphysical theme in his novels. His metaphy sical theme may be, in shorts, summarized as a death and a resuscitation. Such themes of Mr. Park's novels have formed the main stream in his short and middle- length stories in 1960s to Chil-Jo-Oe-Ron.
Thus the article attempted to approach thematically to novels by Mr. Park, which is based on the monistic idealism that all things are thought to acquire diver sities and be separated from a single essential point apart from the dualism.
Key words of Mr. Park's novels are a death and a resuscitation, which are considered to be identical. That makes his novels narrowed down the main stream i.e. the monism. Because his monistic idealism has developed into a magnificent cosmology idealism that all things in the world should be connected to a single point from a simple thought that a death and a resuscitation would be identical.
In addition, a death and a resuscitation in his novels are examined in a close relation to a sex. Because a will to live and a sexual desire are thought as identical as the death and the resuscitation. Thus the sex in his novels has played a role of an essential axis out of two main axes i.e. the death and the resuscitation.
Accordingly, in the article his novels were combined under the main stream i.e. the monism, and for deeper study a monism- oriented consciousness in his novels was examined based on the magnificentaxis i.e. the sex.
Firstly, in the Chapter II, a tendency of his novels toward the monism was examined. In the sub- chapter 1, concepts of the monism and the dualism had been studied, then monistic meanings in his novels were examined and in the sub- chapter 2 and 3 sadism and masochism as practical examples and mental and phy sical tendencies of his mind toward the dualism were searched.
In the chapter III, the monism- oriented consciousness was investigated by means of the sex which is most organically related to the most essential subjects of his novels i.e. the death and the resuscitation. Mr. Park considered that death and resuscitation with respect to the eternity were accomplished mostly by the sex and such the sex was expressed in various symbolic meanings. The article examined how a reasoning sy stem of Mr. Park was changed and expressed while studying these various symbolic meanings according to time in Yu-Ri-Jnag「里場」, Study of Death 「죽음의 한 硏究」and Chil-Jo-Oe-Ron.
The novels by Mr. Park began with a single religious pur sue in order to overcome a fear of death. He devised the resuscitation in order to overcome the fear of death and found the religion and the myth as means. For example, he longed to return to a single origin prior to the chaos. That was a womb of the mother i.e. the land. And that was golden Taeja and Taeguk. He tried to find and recover a human being's origin (the beginning of the world) such as has been lost in minds of modern humans. These religious consciousness may be narrowed down death and resuscitation (redemption) irrespective of the western linear world view or the oriental cyclic one.
Thus, by studying the novels by Mr. Park from the viewpoint of the monism that death and resuscitation are identical, it could be known how the fear for death which was thought a beginning of his novels was reflected on his novels and overcome.
The western dualistic rationalism does not only rob modern humans of mythical strictness but also makes them fall farther and farther away from a single point of human's essential world(the beginning of the world). Mr. Park tried to engrave reflection and new recognition with respect to the human being's origin on the modern humans while escaping from the western dualistic rationalism and finding the mythical strictness. Therefore, the novels by Mr. Park may be considered the monism- oriented consciousness which would escape from the western dualistic rationalism and unify the world into a single point i.e. the origin of the world.