李箱의 <鼅鼄會豕>에 대한 기독교적 해석

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to reveal what is the specialities of the symbolism in the Ji-Ju-Whoe-Shi(鼅鼄會豕) written by Lee Sang(李箱) in 1936. The assumption of this article is constructed this short novel based on the imagination of christianity from bible. Because the meaning of this novel's title , "the Ji-Ju-Whoe-Shi(鼅鼄會豕)" is two of spiders had met a pig. That means the thin spiders got eaten by the greedy pigs, and the thin spiders ate pig's flesh. Those are happened simultaneously. Those images are kinds of the symbols of a life-and-death struggle at the middle of 1930's in Seoul. By the way, Lee Sang had borrowed spider & pig as symbols of animals from The Bible, The Book of Isaiah, chapter 59: verse 1-8 and The Gospel of Luke, chapter 8: verse 32-35. Those are proved spider as a symbol of positive characters, not negative in eastern & western literature. But in the Ji-Ju-Whoe-Shi(鼅鼄會豕) written by Lee Sang(李箱), there are spiders as symbols of negative personna. In addition to, in the Ji-Ju-Whoe-Shi(鼅鼄會豕) written by Lee Sang(李箱), the main accident in narrative is developed through a suit in Christmas seasons. In The Book of Isaiah, God said, the spider as an evil spirit were made a suit but they might given birth to a venomous snake. Lee Sang did not write leaving spaces in this novel like The Bible with Korean published in those times. And Lee Sang used frequently adjectives, clean & dirty. That are not common to Lee Sang's novel with dried style. So that it could be said the symbols of Ji-Ju-Whoe-Shi(鼅鼄會豕) are based on the imagination of christianity.