환상 , 현실을 전복시키는 소설의 방식 - 복거일 << 비명을 찾아서 - 경성 , 쇼우와 62 년 >> 의 경우 - = A study on the fantasy of Bok Geo - il`s Toward the Epitaph

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In this study, I analyzed the narrative structure of Toward the Epitaph and studied that the function of fantasy was the overturning of reality. The fantasy was denounced in the traditional discourse of literature because it was unreal. However, recently, Many literature scholars recognize fantasy as one of fundamental impulses of literature like a mimesis. The fantasy that we can find in the narrative structure of Toward the Epitaph is not merely unreal. The fantasy breaks the barrier with reality and changes the readers` recognition of the world. In the chapter Ⅱ, analyzing the narrative structure, I deconstructed the novelistic meaning of the frame form and the quest structure. These two narrative characters render readers unable to distinguish the fantasy from the reality. In the chapter Ⅲ, analyzing the concrete function of the fantasy, I clarified that the fantasy made readers realize the colonizational situation of real world. Nevertheless, the fantasy in the text shows not only the negative recognition about the world, it also shows both the negative recognition and the indefinite reality at the same. This kind of character makes overturning of the negative world possible. From this study, I can confirm that the fantasy of Bok Geo-il`s Toward the Epitaph shows the reader that a conversion of recognition about the world is necessary. Therefore, we should understand the fantasy of Toward the Epitaph in term of `how is the reader`s recognition converted.