A Study on Nostalgia in Yi, Hyo-seok's Works

This study aims to search the meaning of antimonic pose in Yi, Hyo-seok's works. This antimonic pose can reveal the repressive desire and internal sense of guilty. The main characters of his works are often tormented by a guilty conscience and internal desire. But on the other hand he they have an obsession about perfect life and ideological world. They want to live moral on the ether hand want to break their moral obsession. This interesting coexistence of antimonic desire give us a clue to understand his works as nostalgia. His main characters usually complain of inner conflict with daily life and his ideological worth. This conflict simultaneously appears with paradoxical longing for a stable life and non-daily impulse. For example, it can explain the coexistence "When Bucketwheet Flowers Blossom" and other works to reveal of nostalgic longing for exotic culture and life. Nostalgic characters usually simple men who live a simple, secure life. But they want to live another life, even if only for a brief time. The another life to live is natural life. Nature is an ideological idea and the quite contrary to urban life. To them natural life is a genuine life and worthwhile life. The mordern and city life is lack of this true worth and ideal. Therefore, we can say for Yi, hyo-seok, nature is a immanent utopia. The term of utopia is a similar to nostalgic fundamentals. As Milan Kundera said, nostalgia involve the meaning of torture from their own ignorance. For him, the yearning of nature, home, exotic culture, illicit love, maternal things are all expression of nostalgia.