This study offers a new interpretation of the novel by examining the protagonist’s religious sensibility and the Catholic symbolic system embedded within the text. Particularly, it identifies his statement as a central meta-narrative device and textual enactment of Catholic confession. Departing from the tradition of Communist self-criticism, it is structured based on the logic of Catholic catechesis, articulating conscience, guilt, and self-examination in a coherent narrative framework. Through this process, he reconstructs his divided self toward psychological healing and identity integration. Although he rejects religious belief, the recurring presence of sacred places, confessional discourse, and Catholic symbolisms reveal an underlying religious unconsciousness operating throughout the novel. Furthermore, the narratives of torture, escape, and the boat-people experience are reconfigured through their connection to the apocalyptic vision of “a New Heaven and a New Earth” in the Book of Revelation, thereby becoming a symbolic narrative of death, rebirth, and salvation.