1990년대 묵시록 서사와 밀레니엄의 상상― 박상우의 『블랙리포트』와 백민석의 『러셔』를 중심으로

This paper analyses the New Millennium imagination of the 1990s in an apocalypse novel with Park Sang-woo and Baek Min-seok’s “Black Report” and “Rusher”. Thus, this paper aims to prove that one of the major aspects of the complex temporality of the 1990s as a transition is associated with the sense of the ending. The 1990s are a product of over-determined political and economic conjuncture between the political democratic system(1987) and the post-IMF economic system(1997). At the starting point of literature in the 1990s lies the disillusionment of a patterned form of ideology and narrative from the past. It is unique that the old and the new collide, but the past downfall appears in a way that is overwhelming but without expectations of novelty. “Black Report” is a post apocalypse that maximizes disillusionment and depicts the ending as an imminence. This narrative is embodied in the form of an ethically faithful attitude toward old causes. In contrast, the disillusionment of “Lusher” is a priori mood of the dystopian world that penetrates the work. The immanent ending of “Lusher” absorbs resistance to the system. It can be said to be a metaphor for the immanence of ending in the post-IMF system. The imminence of ending and immanence of ending forms the background of dominant moods of various implied and apocalyptic narratives emerging in the 2000s.