Nineteen-sixties in Korea was time of revolution, but revolution com- pelled people dissolve to the Subject which tried to innovate the whole nation. In this study I intended to read Kim seung-ok’s short stories as the presentation of other side of ...
Nineteen-sixties in Korea was time of revolution, but revolution com- pelled people dissolve to the Subject which tried to innovate the whole nation. In this study I intended to read Kim seung-ok’s short stories as the presentation of other side of nation making. First, I explored that Kim’s short stories shows symptom of schizophrenia. I thought schizo- phrenia can be analysed as a aspect of innovation or dissolution. The characters are immigrants floating around temporal time and space. Nothing was steady and firm because everything should be changed. they themselves are caught between the hope to establishment that could not fulfilled and the passion that consume everyday modernity. From its hybrid position I tried to find historicity of sixties and the meaning of everyday life.
Secondary, I noticed the gaze of flâneur that Kim’s short stories shows. Kim’s short stories are based on urbanity. Urban space as a spectacle which project the vision of innovation was the space of dis- solution. To represent aspect of dissolution it was needed to penetrate among anonymous people and see the street full of abundant images they are moving. His wandering appears as phantasmagoria, but in phantasmagoria the face of people can not identified. Schizophrenic flâneur finally find out himself is one of them, but the shape of other- ness was vague and ambiguous.
I thought ‘Min-jung’ was discovered as others of nation. But I argued that the physiognomy of ‘Min-jung’ hero depicted in Hwang seok young’s ‘Gaek-ji’ repeat the grammar of Subject. It can be the witness that the time of innovation still continued. That is the reason why schizophrenic memory should be restored.’