This article observed aspects of tuberculosis that appear in the novels of Na Do Hyang and Yu Dafu along with their meanings as infection literature. Comparisons revealed the following three facts. First, deterioration of the physical body appears as a strong desire for eroticism. Both writers tried to overcome their fear of death by challenging themselves with the taboo of eroticism, but both become frustrated in front of the moral code of reality. Second, in the works of the two artists, tuberculosis is not only treated as a personal disease, but is also thought of at more ideological and mental levels, and its cause is also linked to the issues of the transmission and traditions of deeply rooted sin. Na Do Hyang is admitting to the succession of tragedy and the frustration of desire due to sin through a physical body with tuberculosis while Yu Dafu is looking for more fundamental causes of tragedy in life from Chinese ways of thinking. Third, the pulmonary tuberculosis of Na Do Hyang and Yu Dafu also reveal mental infections in terms of the succession of sins and a denial of tradition. Mental infection at this time has stronger meanings of vertical propagation and transmission rather than horizontal proliferation. To overcome this, as a place of healing, Na Do Hyang chooses Masan and Yu Dafu chooses Hangju, his hometown, but he cannot find peace of mind there. Through this, it was found that tuberculosis in the novels of Na Do Hyang and Yu Dafu is not limited to passion-romantic symbols of love as evaluated in existing literature, but is also connected to the problem of more fundamental notions, revealing the characteristics of ‘transmission’ and ‘proliferation’ in infection literature.
동북아시아문화학회 [The Association of North-east Asian Cultures]
설립연도
2000
분야
복합학>학제간연구
소개
동북아시아 문화의 다양성과 정체성을 연구 토론하고, 지역내 문화 교류의 다양한 모습을 연구하고 문화변동의 큰 틀을 집적함으로써 우리 민족 문화 및 상대 민족의 문화적 터전을 이해하여 문화공동체적 특성을 계발하고 상호 관련성의 강화를 유도하는 학술활동을 통해 동북아시아의 문화발전에 이바지함.