This study purports to examine the range of insight of Kim Hyun, especially the one placed on ``I``. This ``I``, making an opposite pair with plural pronouns, holds special meaning. It is not just singular person, but plural existence wandering around...
This study purports to examine the range of insight of Kim Hyun, especially the one placed on ``I``. This ``I``, making an opposite pair with plural pronouns, holds special meaning. It is not just singular person, but plural existence wandering around to look for ``answer``. In Narcissus Poetics, Kim Hyun places two questions of ``Who am I?`` and ``Who is the Poet``, analyzing myths. The question asking what the poem is, takes place along with the one on the identity. The well of Narcissism Kim ponders over is deepened bythe meanings Pausanias and Ovidius impose. This well framing critical insight of Kim``s, is connected through endless memory and the realm of death, rather than the means of representation or reflection. The question ``Who am I?`` can``t be answered without one Who is the Poet, as ``I`` can``t exist without ``encounter`` to others. The issue of ``encounter`` leads us to wonder how Kim is motivated to practice ``Sympathetic Criticism``. For instance, Kim`s four different ways of analyze Seoul, winter 1964 show minute disparity. They collaborate on a singular aim with pursuing continuously. ``I`` in these articles is compared to an exile who deliberately delays an immediate answer and directly goes on for another question. This means Kim`s ``Sympathetic Criticism`` refers to reading in a state of exile seeking to trailblaze interpretations, rather than in a fixed quest for a singular answer, by encountering to the consciousness of the writer, not physical one. In order to investigate the issue of encounter, Kim explores various fields including Myths, Philosophy, Literature and Arts, getting rid of barrier between criticism and article. One might say the article Kim writes by inspiration of Magritte and Foucault is close to the painting of Gogh, therefore his painting can be in the territory of literature, ``suffering``. The criticism of Kim Hyun is a record of an exile. In other words, it is a journal of a person``s archaeology. It is a mirror which reflects the innermost part of himself. It attempts to endure the limit of literature, delineating the fear for the solitude writing poses, not mere making a confession.