‘구보’의 반복에서 나타나는 잠재적 ‘글쓰기’

Abstract

This study compares and analyzes the film Sisyphus’s vacation and the novel A Day in the Life of Kubo the Novelist. The film repeats the character 'Kubo', while actualizing the writing itself. The film evokes the object of Kubo as a novelist and of his writing. However, the attempt to find writing again in the novel fails. Kubo in the novel is unable to write. Writing is an absent object in the novel. In the novel, Kubo pretends the social identity of a novelist as a response to the absence of writing. Therefore, the object that the film repeats is not the novel itself, but another object as a third point of reference. A novel in which writing exists is assumed. Writing as a virtual object is not inherent in the novel, but is retroactively defined through its repetition in the film. Virtual writing is only revealed through repetition, it can be a way of reading the novel through the film.