대중의 문제가 자본주의와 직결되면서, 취향에 관한 접근 개념이 소비나 생산이라는 차원으로 확대되었지만, 언제나 예술이 향하는 누빔점에는 인간의 문제가 있었다. 이 중 소설이라는 장르가 오랜 시간 본래의 가치와 질문들을 크게 손상시키지 않을 수 있었던 것은 인간 삶에 관하여 재현과 제안이 가능한 장르라는 기초적인 성질을 위반하지 않기 위해 노력한 때문일 것이다. 하지만, 현재의 소설이 가장 주목하는 있는 인간의 내면의 다층적인 지점을 고려할 때 가장 중요한 것은 소통의 문제이다. 본고는 현재 한국의 환상 소설 또는 환상적 방법론이 문학이 사회적 진실과 관계 맺는 방법을 제안하는 차원과 문학 내적인 영역에서 미학에 관한 실천 윤리를 구현하는 차원으로 구분하여 다시 한 번 생각해 보는 데 첫 번째 의미가 있다. 이는 한국의 환상 소설사에서 가장 다양한 변혁을 꾀하는 최근 20년 이내의 사회학적 책무와 미학적 유희 사이에서 기획과 전략으로 기용되는 환상 서사의 측면을 살펴보고자 하는 것이다.

Even though the matter of the public has been directly related to capitalism and the approaching concept of one `s taste has been expanded to the level of consumption and production, the matter of human being existed at the quilting point that art is oriented towards all the time. Among these the genre of the novel did not seriously damage the original values and questions for a long time and it was because they tried not to violate the fundamental qualities that the novel is the genre which is capable of reproducing and suggesting about human life. However, the multi-layered point of the inner world of a human being, that is to say, the aspect of humanity that the contemporary novels take notice of is not the human nature as it is the pre-existing literature pursued, but the product of the modified and developed realm in the situation literature exchanged influence on the society closely. What matters most here is the matter of communication. This research has been started from the point that this abnormal communication and concerns about the discord of communication contemporary novels are interested in is related to the strategy worthy enlarging the extension of the novels. Among them, I am going to mention the way contemporary novels approach the external field in literature through the strategy of fantasy, keeping the borrowing of the quality of fantasy is the most significantly noticeable project. This article carries the most important meaning in the way that we muse the question once more by dividing into two perspectives: First, from the perspective that contemporary Korean fantasy novels or the methodology of fantasy suggest the methods that literature relates to the truth of society. Second, from the perspective of realization of the ethics of practice of esthetics in the inner realm of literature. Through this I would like to look into the aspects of fantasy epics appointed as the project and strategy between sociological duty and esthetic amusement through the literary works written within the past 20 years that attempt the most changes in the history of Korean fantasy novels.