박완서 소설은 생명에 대한 순수한 희열을 바탕에 깔고 있다. 생명에 대한 희열과 믿음은 반인간적이고 반생명적인 삶을 견지하는 힘이 되는가 하면, 생명의 온전한 발현과 실현을 저해하는 문명의 허구성을 포착하는 예민한 촉수가 된다. 박완서 소설의 ‘생명적인 것’에 대한 관심은 생태적 감수성을 일깨우고 생태의식을 고양시키는 생태문학에 맞닿아 있다. 박완서 문학의 생명에 대한 관심이 생태문학적 가치와 연결되는 것은 작가의 ‘틈바구니 의식’과 상관성이 높다. ‘틈바구니 의식’은 이분법적 사고를 거부하는 생태문학의 사고와 연관되거니와 구체적으로 전후의 복구 이념과 반공 이데올로기의 사회적 동의로 이루어진 견고한 체제와 집단적 기억의 동일성을 의심할 수 있는 균열적 시선을 내포하는 것이다. 그러한 ‘틈바구니 의식’은 견고한 동일성 아래에서 외면당하고 훼손되는 생명의 가치를 드러낸다. 다른 한편으로 ‘틈바구니 의식’을 틀어쥐는 생명적 관점은 일상생활과 가족에 내면화된 반생명적 문명과 제도를 포착해낸다. ‘틈바구니 의식’은 위계적 이분법에 함몰되지 않고 의미 있는 타자를 발견함으로써 틈새의 숨결을 찾아내는 역할을 하는 것이다. 이러한 틈새에서 드러나는 것은 문명이나 이데올로기의 껍데기를 걷어낸 삶의 있는 그대로의 모습이다. 작위적이고 속물적인 일상의 허위적 관념을 거부하고 삶의 무섭도록 진실된 모습을 보여주려는 박완서 소설의 의도는 일종의 생태문학적 전략과 상통한다.

The purpose of this essay is a study on the sense of vitality in Park, Wanseo's novel from the point of view of ecological criticism. Park, Wanseo's novel is based upon the pure joy of vitality. The pure joy and trust of vitality is sensitive antenna that capture the out of ordinary culture and system, those would interfere with the life and vitality. The sense of vitality of the characteristic of Park's novel is the cause of the ecological literature. The way that connects up vitality and ecological literature is the consciousness of between. The writer watches the law and the custom in the between at her postwar days. There are the cracked view that have her doubts about anti-communism and ideology of postwar days in the consciousness of between. And then the consciousness of between has doubt about the strong system and the identity of the mass memory in the postwar days. Specifically, the conscious of between is focused on the everyday life and the family that have been internalized anti-vital culture and system. This is the point that the writer's individual experience is become to universal experience. The writer's voice reverberated as being well balanced, and being get out of division into two parts in her novels. This is when the conscious of between discoveries the meaning others.

The purpose of this essay is a study on the sense of vitality in Park, Wanseo's novel from the point of view of ecological criticism. Park, Wanseo's novel is based upon the pure joy of vitality. The pure joy and trust of vitality is sensitive antenna that capture the out of ordinary culture and system, those would interfere with the life and vitality. The sense of vitality of the characteristic of Park's novel is the cause of the ecological literature. The way that connects up vitality and ecological literature is the consciousness of between. The writer watches the law and the custom in the between at her postwar days. There are the cracked view that have her doubts about anti-communism and ideology of postwar days in the consciousness of between. And then the consciousness of between has doubt about the strong system and the identity of the mass memory in the postwar days. Specifically, the conscious of between is focused on the everyday life and the family that have been internalized anti-vital culture and system. This is the point that the writer's individual experience is become to universal experience. The writer's voice reverberated as being well balanced, and being get out of division into two parts in her novels. This is when the conscious of between discoveries the meaning others.

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