죽음의 경건함과 인간적 구원: 레프 톨스토이의 『이반 일리치의 죽음』과 우베르토 파솔리니의 ≪스틸 라이프≫ 비교연구

Abstract

The chief aim of my paper is to reveal the levels of the reverence of death in this neo-liberal capitalism era and possibilities of human salvation. In order to reveal these two subjects, I would like to study Lev Tolstoi’s The Death of Ivan Ilych and Uberto Pasolini’s Still Life in comparative way. People who live in this era are regarding deaths as vulgar and lower things due to the advancement of neo-liberal capitalism. Capitalism makes ritual of death and death itself being sold on the market, so death becomes very much personal and expensive burdens in the present. As the result of all these, people ignore the others’ deaths, so the reverence of death is getting lower and more miserable. In order to solve this sort of problems, people must save their souls by restoring their altruistic humanity. People used to believe that the solemn God can only save their souls, but by comparing those two texts, I can suggest that people might save their souls without the God but themselves. So I would like to call this as human salvation and this paper is revealing its possibilities.