<허거통가>는 작가 미상의 고소설로, 허거통이라는 파락호가 노름으로 재산을 말아먹었으나 어진 아내 덕분에 개과천선하여 벼슬도 하게 된다는 내용이다. 이 작품은 고전 한문소설 <옥선몽>과 주인공의 이름이 같지만 내용은 완전히 다른 별개의 작품이다. <허거통가>는 19세기 말의 필사본이며, 원래 33장 정도의 분량으로 추정되지만, 현재 8장 반이 낙장이 된 채 전하는 불완전한 작품이다. 이 필사본은 다른 이본이 발견되지 않았고, 곳곳에 종이를 덧대어가며 고친 부분이 많기 때문에 원고본이자 유일본일 가능성이 있다.<허거통가>는 제목 자체가 음악적인 의미를 지니고 있으며, 그 내용으로 보더라도 창작과정이 판소리와 매우 밀접한 관계를 지니고 있다. <허거통가>를 판소리로 보기는 어렵지만, 서두 부분이 판소리 단가처럼 구성되어 있고, 내용이나 문체 역시 판소리 더늠으로 볼 수 있는 부분이 많기 때문에 19세기 말 판소리의 창작과정이나 수용층 등 판소리의 외연을 연구하는데 중요한 작품이다.

A Study on the Hurgeuatong-ga Novel Bae, Yeon-hyung Hurgeuatong-ga(許巨通歌), an ancient unidentified novel, tells the story of a billionaire named Hurgeuatong who squanders all his fortune by gambling. He becomes a new man with the help of his wise and gentle wife, and even gets employment in government. This novel has the same hero as in Okseonmong(玉仙夢), an ancient novel written by Chinese character, but only with a completely different story. Hurgeuatong-ga is a late-19th-century transcription. It is assumed that its original length was about 66 pages, but is now incomplete with 17 pages missing. Considering that there is no other extant copy other than this transcribed version and that there are many pages pasted to correct and revise the story, it is highly possible that this version may be the manuscript version or the only version. As can be gleaned from the book title, Hurgeuatong-ga, the book has some relation to music. It is very closely related to the Pansori Epic Chant in terms of story structure and style. Although it is hard to determine if it belongs to the Pansori Epic Chant, the book’s opening is similar to the Tan-ga, Shor Lyric Song(短歌), in the Pansori and many aspects of its story and style resemble Deoneum, the specific songs in the Pansori, like an aria in an opera. Accordingly, it is a very important novel in the study of the extension of the Pansori, especially in terms of tackling its creation and determining the social class that enjoyed it in the late 19th century in Korea.

A Study on the Hurgeuatong-ga Novel Bae, Yeon-hyung Hurgeuatong-ga(許巨通歌), an ancient unidentified novel, tells the story of a billionaire named Hurgeuatong who squanders all his fortune by gambling. He becomes a new man with the help of his wise and gentle wife, and even gets employment in government. This novel has the same hero as in Okseonmong(玉仙夢), an ancient novel written by Chinese character, but only with a completely different story. Hurgeuatong-ga is a late-19th-century transcription. It is assumed that its original length was about 66 pages, but is now incomplete with 17 pages missing. Considering that there is no other extant copy other than this transcribed version and that there are many pages pasted to correct and revise the story, it is highly possible that this version may be the manuscript version or the only version. As can be gleaned from the book title, Hurgeuatong-ga, the book has some relation to music. It is very closely related to the Pansori Epic Chant in terms of story structure and style. Although it is hard to determine if it belongs to the Pansori Epic Chant, the book’s opening is similar to the Tan-ga, Shor Lyric Song(短歌), in the Pansori and many aspects of its story and style resemble Deoneum, the specific songs in the Pansori, like an aria in an opera. Accordingly, it is a very important novel in the study of the extension of the Pansori, especially in terms of tackling its creation and determining the social class that enjoyed it in the late 19th century in Korea.

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the specific songs in the Pansori, which can be compared to an aria in an opera, Transcribed version(筆寫本), Different version(異本)