한국『서유기』와 중국·인도 원숭이의 상관성 연구- 권력과 저항의 관점으로

Today, when we talk about the novel 'Journey to the West', the famous Chinese classical novel first comes into our mind. This novel is known as the representative work of the sprit and evil and it is an extended account of the legendary pilgrimage of Tang dynasty Buddhist monk Xuanzang who traveled to the 'Western Regions', that was, ancient India, to obtain the Buddhist sacred texts and returned after many trials and much suffering. The author depicted that Buddha gave this task to the monk and provided him three protectors Sun Wukong, Zhu Wuneng and Sha Wujing who agree to help him as atonement for their sins. Classical work Journey to the West has strong roots in Chinese folk religion,Taoist, and Buddhist philosophy and this beauty of coexisting multi religion form shows that a utopian world even in the modern world could be possible. If there is a 'Journey to the west' with the back ground story of adventures journey to Buddha land in China, there is also a novel 'Journey to the West' in Korea with the back ground fantastic and adventures story of the journey of patronage to the North side of Korea. The Korean novel 'Journey to the West' was written by Choi In-hun, one of the representative post-colonial Korean writers. He wrote this novel after he recovered from the trauma of his young age and with the perception of resistance to transcend the reality of partition of Korea. He published the 'Journey to the West' in 1966, and then he again published a work with same name and with the similar back ground story of classical Chinese 'A Journey to the West' but somewhat different expression and different story ending in his complete work collection in 1976. Both works of Choi Inhun shows his interest in Chinese classical novel. This paper provides an important clue to understand why Choi Inhun adopted the Chinese classical story Journey to the West in 1960s and 1970s. After introduction, this paper provide the information about the root of patronage monkey in Chinese 'Journey to the West. This paper explains how monkey character was first appeared in the Indian epic Ramayana and later it was adopted into the Chinese classical work Journey to the West. Later, Korean writer Choi Inhun adopted and wrote in his own style, and discusses the problem of post-partition of Korea and the problem of modern humanity. He is trying to explain problem of power desire of humanity by the ruler and it misuse on the innocent public through this novel. Choi Inhun tries to convey the message that authorities always try to suppress the resister no matter which period you are living in through his works. This is the main problem of our humanity and we should have to think about it in order to make better society.

並列關鍵字

Journey to the West ； Korea ； China ； India ； Cultural Root of Monkey Character

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