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Transcendentence of the reality, Realism of transcendentence-Shin Kyung-Sook`s 「Train leaves at 7 o`clock」and Un Hee-Kyung`s「Last dance with me」

Feminism and Korean Literature / Feminism and Korean Literature, (P)1229-4632; (E)2733-5925
2001, v.0 no.5, pp.253-275

Abstract

Generally, Critics say that the perspective of 'the meeting with unrelated people' could be actualized in Shin Kyung-Sooks novels but it could not be in Un Hee-Kyungs those. At a glance, it seems that there is a opposed view of the world between Shin Kyung-Sooks and Un Hee-Kyungs novels. But both of them have the similar understanding of the 1990s reality and are based on 'romantic view point of the reality'. They have a same question such as 'how to meet with unrelated people' and 'how to retain such experience' in the world in which our life extremely has been fragmented. In other word, Shin and Un have expressed the desire of 'the meeting with unrelated people' and 'endurance of the experience'. They use the special techniques, which are 'making the fantastic space' and 'using the perception of body', in order to realize their desire in their novels. The component of the fantastic space means the temperature of the body in Shin's novels and does sex in Un's those. The reason why they use these techniques is that they comprehend the reality through the romantic viewpoint. These techniques are the solution that two of these novelist finally have accepted to meet reality. However, if novelists never concerned about politics or reality but only literature, it will cause to accept the problem of reality itself. The literature written by novelist such like that helps to conserve the problem of reality. Sometimes, the desire and romantic viewpoint of the reality, expressed by Shin and Un, may become illusion.

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Feminism and Korean Literature