이상의 ‘황(獚)’ 계열시와 ｢무제｣의 사상

초록

Texts discovered posthumously among Yi Sang’s unpublished works include those known as the “Hwang” series of poems. In this paper, I examine the intertextual relationship between an untitled manuscript (“Untitled”) and the “Hwang” series and then analyze the ideas Yi Sang sought to express through the composition of the latter. In the “Hwang” series—particularly in “1931 (Work No. 1)” and “Hwang’s Record, Work No. 2”—Yi Sang focuses on the problem of linking the brains of the human (“I”) and animal (“Hwang”), thereby aspiring toward a monistic life view. Simultaneously, these poems exhibit an imaginative leap that transcends the modern scientific dichotomy, which separates the organic (the seed) from the inorganic (the marble). The experimental procedures undertaken to precisely realize this philosophical vision is recorded in “Untitled.” Furthermore, in “Untitled,” Yi Sang embodies an expansion of perspective to the proton level—the most fundamental unit of matter— thus enabling a renewed perception of the world. Subsequently, he attempts to transcend the dichotomous distinctions between human and animal, organic and inorganic, and life (生) and death (死). In this context, the monistic view of life presented in “Untitled” can be appreciated for its avant-garde, in that it deconstructs the typical subject/object dualism and presents an idea that extends beyond the horizons of modern thought.

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