Dae Nyoung Yoon shows us the new utopian vision of 21th century in his novel, 『Horizon of the Moon』(1998). He suggested that we should be able to reach utopia by means of regeneration-in that course, damaged being can resume 'purity' and get toget...
Dae Nyoung Yoon shows us the new utopian vision of 21th century in his novel, 『Horizon of the Moon』(1998). He suggested that we should be able to reach utopia by means of regeneration-in that course, damaged being can resume 'purity' and get together with a sincere 'the other' through 'love'. With faith in human being, he convinced that the utopia would come true when the characters in『Horizon of the Moon』 restored their own completeness in virtue of the moon's revolving time and spare structure and resumed daily lives.
Especially, he deserves to be appreciated in the sense that his utopian vision was originated from the reflection on Korean contemporary dystopian reality. He paid attention to an individual who had been repressed by 'grand ideology' in the 1980's and post-capitalism in the 1990's. In brief, he offered us the new utopian vision by suggesting that the pure individual should be capable of making a small community trough 'love' in a reality where reason-centered utopian vision on the base of grand ideology or grand system often damaged humanity.