CATHARTIC HOMECOMING IN YUN HŬNGGIL’S NOVEL SEQUENCE “THE ROAD TO SORADAN”
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2020.1.09Keywords:
homecoming, catharsis, traumatic narrative, division narrative, Yun HŭnggilAbstract
Cathartic homecoming in Yun Hŭnggil’s Novel Sequence The Road to Soradan. This paper deals with the contemporary South Korean novelist Yun Hŭnggil (b.1942)’s novel sequence The Road to Soradan, and discusses the implications of the adult narrators’ act of homecoming by focusing on the importance of war memory recollections, and on the idea of catharsis in relation to a spatial dimension – the hometown. The cathartic connotation of homecoming and the emotional effects those hometown places are charged with come into view as the adult narrators re-access their hometown, recollect their past and thus reconnect with its memories and with their own selves.
REZUMAT. Actul cathartic al reîntoarcerii acasă în romanul Drumul către Soradan de Yun Hŭnggil. Lucrarea de față aduce în prim plan romanul Drumul către Soradan, scris de romancierul contemporan sud-coreean Yun Hŭnggil, și discută implicațiile actului de reîntoarcere în orașul natal întreprins de naratorii adulți ai acestui roman de secesiune. Ideea reîntoarcerii acasă este corelată cu importanța rememorării amintirilor de război și cu racordarea conceptului de catharsis la ideea dimensiunii spațiale.
Cuvinte-cheie: catharsis, traumă, narațiune de secesiune, Yun Hŭnggil
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