『고리오 영감』과 「필경사 바틀비: 윌가의 이야기」 비교: 모더니티의 수도로서 파리와 뉴욕의 풍경과 변증법적 이미지를 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to compare the dialectic of the city and how the modern self might be constituted in Le père Goriot and “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A story of Wall Street” by dealing with the place of Architecture and Urbanism within these texts. In the paper, my key concern is how a new form of finance capitalism combined with a new type of planning vision to produce the prototypical modern city and two novelists were dealing with this issue in their own works. Balzac and Melville portray a number of myths that surrounded Paris and Wall Street during the years leading up to the modernization. I think that they shows the revolution itself did not come out of thin air, but was actually a culminating point of what preceded it. Consequently, I demonstrate the absolute centrality of capital in creating the modern city—its class relations, culture, urban form, and social life.