종말 이후와 계속되는 삶－백민석ㆍ김기창ㆍ김초엽의 기후소설에 나타난 종말의 수사학－

초록

Literature, movies, and non-fiction that deal with climate change are climate change texts and are a place where the meaning of climate change is formed and debates about it take place. In this regard, Janet Fischio emphasized the need to examine the aesthetic and narrative forms of climate-related cultural texts. In this paper, with awareness of this problem, three climate novels – Baek Min-seok’s Happy, Apocalypse!, Kim Ki-chang’s Love in the Age of Climate Change, and Kim Cho-yeop’s Greenhouse at the End of the Earth- were analyzed. Their narratives clearly show the post-apocalyptic aspects of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse even among climate narratives. In this paper, we looked at how these novels talk about the apocalypse or its aftermath of climate change. Although climate change is a global phenomenon, it is not uniform at the individual level. The same is true at the level of each country. The response pattern and impact are still different depending on economic conditions. For the economically vulnerable, climate change itself is a violent situation. In particular, in Baek Min-seok’s novel, climate change is a violent reality faced by economically vulnerable classes. His novel shows this through humans and non-humans transformed into helpless monsters. In the novels of Kim Ki-chang and Kim Cho-yup, we can also look at the response to the violent situation caused by climate change. In a situation where climate change is becoming extreme, what is given to humans is life as a struggle for survival. The two authors depict how human life occurs in these situations and how each character copes with it. Through this, we can think ahead about human biological life exposed to the violence of climate change. In particular, Kim Ki-chang and Kim Cho-yup demonstrate the transformation of thinking through climate change in their novels. First, Kim Ki-chang’s “Promised Land” calls for a change in perception of life on Earth. Through this, it reveals how fictional the modern myth was and how fictional the distinction between humans and non-humans is in the reality of climate change. This also points out the limitations of the anthropocentric view of living things, including humans. This perspective corresponds to a planetary perspective on life that goes beyond the global perception of anthropocentrism. Next, Kim Cho-yup’s novel specifically shows the action of reconstructing history from the perspective of plants. In particular, the history reconstructed through Mosbana, the plant that overcame the end of humanity, is not human history. This is the history of the planet reconstructed from the perspective of plants. Through this, this novel also provides a new perspective on life, including humans, the Earth, and the universe.

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