5-6월에는 단편집만으로 노벨문학상을 수상한 캐나다의 소설가 앨리스 먼로의 작품을 읽어봅니다. 단편집 Too Much Happiness에서 제일 먼저 만나볼 두 작품은 “Fiction”과 “Deep-Holes”입니다. “Fiction”은 사랑과 인연에 대한 저자의 생각을 담고 있습니다.
From “Fiction”:
The truth was that she was still drunk, though feeling dead sober. She was in danger of getting into her car and driving out to the house. Not of driving into a ditch, because her driving at such times became very slow and sedate, but of parking in the yard outside the dark windows and crying out to Jon that they simply must stop this.
Stop this. This is not right. Tell her to go away.
한편, 대학에 간 아들이 갑자기 사라진다면? 먼로의 “Deep-Holes”는 뉴요커 웹사이트에서도 읽을 수 있습니다.
From “Deep-Holes”:
But after six months at college Kent disappeared. People who knew him a little–there did not seem to be anyone claiming to be a friend–said that he had talked of going to the West Coast. And a letter came, just as his parents were deciding to go to the police.
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