<김신선전> 연구 = A Study of <Kim-shin-sun-jeon>

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The study reviewed the background of writing about <Kim-shin-sun-jeon金神仙傳> and the consciousness of the writer, Yeonam燕巖 by analyzing the 「Gua-jung-rok過庭錄」(a biography on Yeonam) and works itself. From a close observation, it seems that Yeonam was hardly tolerate of the unjust society and dishonest characters of his early years. In the latter part of the eighteenth century, the Chosun dynasty was very unfair and corrupted in take man of talent(into government service). So he was suffered from mental depression. Get out of melancholia, Yeonam wrote a Chinese characters short story漢文短篇 in young ages.
Kim,hong-gi金弘基, the main character of the story was a runaway from the real world rather than a shinsun神仙(Taoist hermit) of Taoism. He is wandered through the common society and noted mountains in depression, realizing that world did not recognize him. In his writing Yeonam satirized and criticized the society he lives that would not allow such intellectuals to be elevated to high positions(government official). He also showed deep interest on friends of Kim,hong-gi. Externally, their lives in the story was filled with alcohol, music and antiquing but internally they were helpless intellectuals living in common society where their wills were not expressed and the frustration remained hardened in their heart. By writing about their lives, Yeonam was able to expose the problem of intellectuals not being able to serve in high positions of the society.

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