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  The saga novel 『The Border』 by Lee Moon-yeol describes the process of change from imperialism age, the phase of counteract against the oppression of the ruling power, to the phase of creating a new form of power through the literature as transferring from Whang Sok-hyun to Kim Shi-hyung. Whether it is counteract or creation, whichever case it takes, it is the same in the point that it recognizes just one center. Pessimism toward the history exists in the consciousness in which everything except Rome should be oppressed. In other words, 『The Border』 can be read as the declaration of resignation of resistance against the order of control and subordination and the stubborn logic of imperialism.
  Therefore, I feel the lack of which 『The Border』 has not developed the viewpoint of literature of In-chul up to the point of more active interpretation of history. It would be the best choice to crack the logic of the empire and to escape from the bridle of the logic which had restrained his family even though to live as an outsider is not the choice but the insistence of his fate. If the literature of In-chul would have been the advance base to attack the blind side of the power as the spokesperson of the ideology of the upper elite, the evaluation of 『The Border』 would had been much different. If it have been, it would not had remained just a mere metaphor that the most strong oppression and the most productive alternatives come from the inner shell of the old. So it is the pessimism of the form of optimism that In-chul has set the literature as the new center and run for it fiercely. It is optimism that he think it possible to approach to the new center through the literature, while it is pessimism that he can not escape from the old logic of control and subordination forever. The imperialism does not have the outside. 『The Border』 is the pessimistic report about the history and the future of the human beings who survive in the border of the empire in the age of imperialism in whichever form it expands ceaselessly.
  Of course this pessimism does not restrict in the reality of 1960s. There are not more borders expanding nor the excitement of setting new frontiers, however, it has been long that the imperialism has possessed the entire earth by taking a new name as the globalization not as the specific territory but as the cultural name. Even though they stand against the imperialism as the name of the post-colonialism, the spirit and culture of outsider do not escape from the limits of the occidental. The imperialism and the border have been the unchangeable truth. In this point, 『The Border』 can be the sign not only of the 1960s but also of the gloomy present and future of global village age in which it consists of one center and immense borders. This is the meaning of the saga novel 『The Border』.

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