부산대학교 도서관

The purpose of this study is to examine how the narration of desire is structuralized in Kim Seung-ok’s short novels centering around Life-Rehearsal. Most of Kim’s novels written intensively in 1960’s are almost read as one united novel because the one same character that splitted into several characters appears repeatedly in those novels. The narration which appears repeatedly in those novels confesses childhood root-experience through looking back on the past. And there are both exposure and concealment in those confessions. This concealed desire incessantly summons present narrator into the past with sufferings of root trauma. The substance of the desire is incestuous desire which stems from Oedipus complex, and it appears as an embedded form because of absence of father who had to be symbolic identification through appropriate emasculation of desire. The effect of root trauma makes the adult narrator always recollect the past or go back to his hometown not allowing him to be included in the city, confront repression of incestuous desire between him and his family, and kill himself or other because of the sexual guilty. In the end Kim couldn’t solve these moral problems in his novels, so he involved himself with the Christian God outside his novels, and couldn’t write meaningful one after that. In this way, this study has clarified that the substance is incestuous desire that the narration of desire conceals after the analysis of Life-Rehearsal. And it will be easier to understand Kim’s other novels if they are analyzed from this same point of view.