최인호 문학 속 ｢타인의 방｣의 상호텍스트성 = Intertextuality of “The Room of Others” in Choi In-ho’s Literature

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper analyzed Hometown of Stars, Scarecrow, and City of Familiar Others, which are intertextually related to Choi In-ho’s short story “The Room of Others.” In City of Familiar Others, written by Choi In-ho with the intention of returning to the world of early short stories while organizing his writer’s activities, traces of referring to “The Room of Others” are found. Accordingly, this paper hypothesized that there may be more works of Choi In-ho that have an intertextual relationship with “The Room of Others.” City of Familiar Others is similar to “The Room of Others” in terms of sentence expression, narrative development, and theme. By using this to compare the works, it was confirmed that Hometown of Stars and Scarecrow were written referring to “The Room of Others.” In these works, characteristic elements of The Room of Others were found, such as the contrast between familiarity and unfamiliarity, the wife’s character description, emotional states such as loneliness and alienation, and modern daily spaces such as apartments and cities.the fact that these three works were written referring to “The Room of Others” is related to the change in the center of Choi In-ho’s artistic activities. Hometown of the Stars led him to enter the realm of popular fiction. Scarecrow was an attempt to write a novel set in modern times in the mid-1980s when he began to write historical novels in earnest. After he was diagnosed with cancer in late 2008, he wrote City of Familiar Others to summarize his writer’s activities. fact that Choi In-ho wrote a work referring to “The Room of Others” at a time when it was a turning point in his literary career suggests that fictional exploration of the existential style of modern people is the fundamental theme of Choi In-ho’s literature. He wanted to return to the world of early short stories that dealt with the theme of modern people’s alienation with urban sensitivity by writing works referring to “The Room of Others.” The fact that he, a long bestselling author, hoped to return to the world of early short stories, reveals his self-consciousness.