Too Much Happiness

단편 “Too Much Happiness”에서 앨리스 먼로는 소피아 코발레프스키(소피야 코발렙스카야)라는 실존 인물의 생애를 다룹니다. 소설가이자 수학자였던 코발레프스키에 대해 듣자마자 매료된 먼로는 이 단편 소설에서 한 마디로 정의 내리기 힘든, 입체적인 한 여성의 초상을 그려냅니다.

Then they had given her the Bordin Prize, they had kissed her hand and presented her with speeches and flowers in the most elegant lavishly lit rooms. But they had closed their doors when it came to giving her a job. They would no more think of that than of employing a learned chimpanzee. The wives of the great scientists preferred not to meet her, or invite her into their homes.