윈덤 루이스의 「베스터」의 신체적 타자성 = Otherness of Body in Wyndham Lewis’s “Bestre”

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This article is an attempt to analyze the Otherness of Bestre's body inrelation to The Complete Wild Body by Wyndham Lewis. As a primitivebody compared to animals, Bestre has the most grotesque body amongLewisian characters in his corpus as well as the anthology. Its visualimage predominates in the story. As a Frenchman, Bestre is opposed tothe vanity of Anglo-Saxon viewpoint upon human bodies. Bestre mirrorsthe repressed unconsciousness of Kerr-Orr the narrator. Bestre isKerr-Orr's double upon which the narrator's latent deviant desire isprojected. With its appearance outside the prevailing convention, Bestreserves as a catalyst for awakening the narrator to perceive what hasbeen repressed in the dominant sphere of representation. As a grotesqueimage, he is representative of Lewis's perspective upon imagery. Bestre'sbody as the epitome of Othrness presents itself as an antitheses to thedominant value system. It is in line with modernist primitivism, whichBestre realizes as a much purer primitive body than other characterscombined with mechanical elements. Bestre demonstrates thedeconstruction of the pairs of binary opposition: male/ female,human/animal, normal/abnormal and sane/insane. Bestre's eye,representative of the corporeal state of his own body, is a weapon againstthe dominant representation system. He wages a battle of eye with theso-called enemies including a Parisian Salon artist and his wife, who arerepresentative of the vanity of people imbued with conventional ideas.
Through Bestre, the narrator recognizes his real self-identity. Privilegingthe wild body of Bestre is denouncing the prevalent mechanizing trend of the early 20th century. Bestre contributes to Modernist primitivism.

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