초록/요약

Jang, Yong-hak received attention as a postwar new generation writer and a leader of existentialist literature, but he is also stuck in literary historical evaluations of unrealistic nihilist and creation of novels abuse of Chinese characters. In this regard, this paper tried to investigate the significance of Jang, Yong-hak's literature, which has not yet been discovered in the overwhelming tradition of realism in the history of Korean literature, through Alain Badiou's view of art. Jang, Yong-hak's literature confronts a void in an unexplainable situation and provides a place for thought. In addition, the suffering, shabby beings and sick and abandoned bodies that appear every time in his literature are more like 'general thing' as a state in which the complexity of life has been removed through subtractive writing rather than a symbol of nihilism and despair. This method of 'aggravating' attempted in the series of “Birth of In-human” and “Prologue for Dynastic change” was to show death and finiteness, that is, to talk more about less. This is because the truth is brought up in the moment of silence that cannot be explained by existing words in the void left by the existing knowledge system(doxa), as revealed in the “The anthology of John”. Furthermore, in “The Legend of the Circle”, it shows the courage to break even the taboo of incest and transcend it, and the will to start anew from the fruits of true love in a perfect new world after the end. In this way, Jang, Yong-hak's literature pursues individual universalism by raising the power of thought.