초록

In the academic realm, the title The Journey to the West is generally identified with the Shidetang edition of the 100-chapter novel allegedly written by Wu Cheng’en in the Ming Dynasty at the end of the sixteenth century. In Korea, though, the title is generally associated not with the 100-chapter novel but with various shorter retellings, which tend to highlight the fantastic and adventurous facets of the story. For this reason, many scholars have assumed that Ch’oe Inhun’s Sŏyugi, written between 1966 and 1971, is a parody of these overwhelmingly popular retellings, when in fact the author is parodying the complex 100-chapter novel. Much of the scholarly analysis of Sŏyugi focuses on reading Ch’oe Inhun’s novel against the politically charged background of 1960s Korea. By undertaking a close comparison of Sŏyugi and the 100-chapter novel, I argue that such a spatiotemporal frame is too narrow. Unlike other retellings of The Journey to the West, Sŏyugi does not merely share characters or artistic motivations with the original text, but also makes use of parallels on the structural and stylistic level, and these have generally been neglected in other studies. Sŏyugi demonstrates how ideological debates can be reduced to relative truths through its parody of the many voices and perspectives present in The Journey to the West.

키워드

polyphony, ideological discourse, Ch’oe Inhun, The Journey to the West, parody

참고문헌(44)open

  1. [단행본] Ch’oe Inhun / 1966 / Munhak / Munhaksa

  2. [단행본] Ch’oe Inhun / 1971 / Sŏyugi [Journey to the West] / Ŭryu munhwasa

  3. [단행본] Ch’oe Inhun / 1988 / A Grey Man / Sisa yŏng’o sa

  4. [단행본] Ch’oe Inhun / 1990 / Modern Korean Literature / University of Hawai‘i Press : 125 ~ 149

  5. [단행본] Ch’oe Inhun / 1994 / Kŭrei kurakpu chŏnmalgi [The whole story of the Grey Club] / Ŏmun’gak

  6. [단행본] Ch’oe Inhun / 2002 / Hwadu [Topic of a Zen/Sŏn riddle]. Vol. 1 / Munijae

  7. [단행본] Ch’oe Inhun / 2005 / Hoesaeg’in [A grey man] / Munhak kwa chisŏngsa

  8. [단행본] Ch’oe Inhun / 2008 / Sŏyugi [Journey to the West] / Munhak kwa chisŏngsa

  9. [단행본] Ch’oe Inhun / 2009 / Ch’ongdok ŭi sori [Voice of the Governor-General] / Munhak kwa chisŏngsa

  10. [단행본] Ch’oe Inhun / 2009 / Munhak kwa ideollogi [Literature and ideology] / Munhak kwa chisŏngsa

  11. [단행본] Ch’oe Inhun / 2010 / Kwangjang/Kuunmong [The square/The dream of the nine clouds] / Munhak kwa chisŏngsa

  12. [단행본] Ch’oe Inhun / 2010 / Kil e kwanhan myŏngsang / Munhak kwa chisŏngsa

  13. [단행본] Yu, Anthony C / 2012 / The Journey to the West. 4 Vols / The University of Chicago Press

  14. [단행본] Bakhtin, M.M. / 2011 / The dialogic imagination / University of Texas Press

  15. [단행본] Bakhtin, M.M. / 1984 / Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics / Minnesota

  16. [단행본] Brandauer, Frederick P. / 1978 / Tung Yüeh / Twayne Publishers

  17. [학술지] Chang Hyŏn / 2005 / Ch’oe Inhun sosŏl ŭi t’alsingmin chuĭi yangsang yŏn’gu [A study on postcolonialism in Ch’oe Inhun’s novels] / Sŏngsim ŏmun nonjip 27 : 21 ~ 47

  18. [학위논문] 조선희 / 2007 / 최인훈 패러디 소설의 시간적 특성 연구

  19. [학술지] 정재서 / 2003 / 여행의 상징의미 및 그 문학적 수용― 『목천자전(穆天子傳)』에서 최인훈의 『서유기(西遊記)』까지 / 중어중문학 33 : 275 ~ 292

  20. [학술지] 정영훈 / 2005 / 최인훈 <서유기>의 담론적 특성 연구 / 한국현대문학연구 (17) : 463 ~ 488

  21. [학술지] 정영훈 / 2011 / 내공간의 이론과 『서유기』 해석 / 우리어문연구 (40) : 477 ~ 504

  22. [단행본] Cohn, Dorrit / 1978 / Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction / Princeton University Press

  23. [학위논문] Ehman, Mark Allen / 1977 / The Gandavyūha: Search for Enlightenment

  24. [단행본] Gimello, Robert M. / 1983 / Studies in Ch’an and Hua-yen / University of Hawai‘i Press : 321 ~ 389

  25. [단행본] Heller, Eva / 2006 / Wie Farben Wirken. Farbpsychologie, Farbsymbolik, Kreative Farbgestaltung [How colors work. Color psychology, color symbolism, creative color design] / Rowohlt

  26. [단행본] Hutcheon, Linda / 2000 / A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms / University of Illinois Press

  27. [학술지] 김미영 / 2004 / 최인훈의 『서유기』 고찰 -패러디와 탈식민주의를 중심으로 / 국제어문 (32) : 175 ~ 207

  28. [학술지] 김성렬 / 2004 / 한국적 문화형의 탐색과 구원 혹은 보편에 이르기 -최인훈의 「서유기」연구- / 우리어문연구 (22) : 279 ~ 308

  29. [학술지] 구재진 / 2004 / 최인훈 소설에 나타난 ‘기억하기’와 탈식민성 - ≪서유기≫를 중심으로- / 한국현대문학연구 (15) : 386 ~ 417

  30. [단행본] Li, Qiancheng / 2004 / Fictions of enlightenment / University of Hawai‘i Press

  31. [학위논문] Liu, Chiung-yun Evelyn / 2008 / Scriptures and Bodies: Jest and Meaning in the Religious Journeys in Xiyou ji

  32. [학위논문] Logie, Andrew / 2006 / Ch’oe Inhun’s early novels The Square and A Grey Man: the struggle for identity as a young, intellectual male in post-liberation and postwar South Korea and the emergence of neo-traditionalism therein

  33. [단행본] Nakamura Hajime / 2002 / Bukkyō jiten 仏教辞典 [Buddhist dictionary] / Iwanami

  34. [인터넷자료] Pak Haehyŏn / Hanguk chakka nŭn han son e, hyŏndaesa ranŭn sugap ŭl ch’ago itta [One hand of Korean writers is handcuffed by modern history]

  35. [학술지] Pae Kyŏngyŏl / 2009 / Ch’oe Inhun Sŏyugi e nat’anan t’alsingmin chuŭi koch’al [A study on the postcolonialism in Ch’oe Inhun’s Sŏyugi] / Inmun kwahak yŏn’gu 11 : 129 ~ 148

  36. [학술지] Pak Myŏngsun / 2002 / Ch’oe Inhun sosŏl e nat’ananŭn eseijŭmjŏk sŏsul pangsik [Essayistic narration in Ch’oe Inhun’s novels] / Hanŏmun kyoyuk 10 : 265 ~ 286

  37. [학술지] Pak Paesik / 1995 / Ch’oe In-hun ŭi Sŏyugi e nat’anan p’erŏdi punsŏk [An analysis of parody in Ch’oe In-hun’s Sŏyugi] / Pip’yŏng munhak 9 : 121 ~ 136

  38. [학술지] Pak Ŭnt’ae / 2001 / Ch’oe Inhun ŭi miro kujo wa esei yangsik [A study on Ch’oe Inhun’s labyrinth structure and essay style] / Suryŏn ŏmun nonjip 26–27 : 173 ~ 196

  39. [단행본] Plaks, Andrew / 1987 / The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel / Princeton University Press

  40. [학술지] 설혜경 / 2007 / 최인훈 소설에서의 기억의 문제－ ＜회색인＞과 ＜서유기＞를 중심으로 / 한국언어문화 (32) : 139 ~ 162

  41. [학술지] Yi Ch’angdong / 1990 / Ch’oe Inhun ŭi ch’oegŭn saenggaktŭl [Ch’oe Inhun’s recent thoughts] / Chakka segye 4 : 44 ~ 63

  42. [학술지] Yi Insuk / 1986 / Ch’oe Inhun ŭi Sŏyugi, kŭ p’aerŏdi ŭi kujo wa ŭimi [Ch’oe Inhun’s Sŏyugi, the structure and meaning of the parody] / Kukche ŏmun 6–7 : 305 ~ 327

  43. [학술지] Zhou, Zuyan / 1994 / Carnivalization in The Journey to the West: Cultural Dialogism in Fictional Festivity / Chinese literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) 16 : 69 ~ 92

  44. [단행본] Zima, V. Peter / 1989 / Ideologie und Theorie [Ideology and theory] / Francke