Abstract

This article has the aim to study Kim, Dong-in's viewpoint about modernization of a represented sexuality in his novels. Kim, Dong-in's sexuality is to be sorted with a binary formula: sacred and unsacred. His women are all unsacred regardless of being modernized or not. The unsacred women are commonly trapped with a sexual desire to be sacrificed as a tragic scapegoat. Their lot is destructive rather than cosmic with having excessive desires. This article defines excessive desirable sexuality as woman-excluded modernization strategy. The male order and system are renamed and decorated in the name of modernization but a female desire and free will are painted as a derailed side effect of modernization. This process can be named as Post Mythology. The archetypal female Image of Kim, Dong-in's novel are different from Korean mythical archetypes. This fact is related with an writer's biographical history. His female characters has a mixed female image of Western canonized novels. Accordingly, the born sexuality with writer's imaginative reading is derailed from our original mythical female image. Our original mythical sexuality has a strong life and fidelity. Makmakbuin, Wongangami, Gungsang's wife, and Dangumagi are the image keeping earth and house and family. They all have a strong will. In contrast with traditional and mythical women, Kim's women are ruined and destroyed with their excessive desires. The derailed sexuality is functioned as a post mythological process. In addition to a derailed sexuality and post mythology, Kim's women are all killed by herself or male characters. Kim have referred to his writing skill as 'the skill of handling dolls'. So, his female characters are inevitably killed by herself and murdered. Then, their death will have a strategic meaning and the accomplished art after female character's death will have a mythical meaning.