박경리 후기 산문의 여성성과 정치성 - 『원주통신』 연작을 중심으로

Abstract

Park Kyung-ri's collection of prose (1994), “Wonju News Agency-The Dreamer Create,” “New Wonju News Agency-The Delusion for Hypothesis” (2007), and “The Pain of Life”(2004) are articles that show the feminine foundation of the idea of life, which is the main point of Park Kyung-ri's literature. It is a self-narrative that cannot be dismissed as a simple experience and observation of daily life, and a style of the late years when the author acquired his identity as a civilization critic and environmental activist. Park Kyung-ri confessed her emptiness and pessimism through the free and loose form of prose, while discovering “Life” and “Care” as values of civilization that could overcome this sense of despair. It was an enlightenment gripped by experiential knowledge and critical dissection of the 20th century history, which was dominated by memories of pain that persisted that could not be dismissed as “centimentism,” compassion for life, and logic of power. In particular, animals need to be carefully considered in that they were decisive beings in proclaiming symbiosis and care with nature as human universal ethics by paying attention to vulnerability, the essence of life, and convinced of the value of culture, aesthetic imagination, and practical movement against human-centered development.