오정희 소설연구 : 《새》를 중심으로

Abstract

Jung-hee Oh’s novel deals with an investigation of the deformity of life and research of sex and death, which are themes not be easily approached by readers. ?Therefore, her works have been evaluated by critics as extremely difficult to decode because her themes and concepts are vague and hard to understand. The world discovered inside her novels is deformed, destroyed or negative and this is an issue. The motives in her novels (such as physical malformation, misconstruction of organic functions, incompleteness of sex, etc) are expressed by destructive urges of characters who can’t live with others or who live in completely isolated from society. This treatise pays attention to the ‘destroyed world’ that is exposed in her novels.? It proves that the destroyed world is not only heinous target but also condition that gives dream. The treatise analyzes the characteristic beauty of the destroyed world in her works, especially her latest work, “Bird”, that is a medium length story. The purpose of the study is to prove that the impact of beauty is literary recognition about the realities of the life in the destroyed world that is a motive of communication. By analyzing “Bird”, a beautiful and sorrowful novel, the study wants to prove that the real value of literature may be confirmed via the exposed suffering in the novel. Definitely, “Bird” displays negative strength with a stand on the internal narration of juvenility. Such a work that focuses on negative power will become the study of a discovery how real life in literature is achieved via the flow of awareness.