클레어 키건의 소설 “The Long and Painful Death”에서 주인공은 39번째 생일날 “the Chekhov story”를 읽으며 한때 같이 살자고 했던 한 남자를 떠올립니다. 그 이야기가 바로 안톤 체호프의 “The Bride”입니다. 나디아는 결혼을 앞두고 잠을 이루지 못합니다. 머릿속에는 어떤 생각이 지나가고 있을까요?
It must have been about two in the morning when Nadya woke up. Dawn was breaking. Somewhere in the distance a nightwatchman was banging away. She did not feel sleepy. The bed was uncomfortable–much too soft. As she used to do on May nights in the past she sat up in bed to take stock. Her thoughts were just the same as last night’s–monotonous, barren, obsessive thoughts about Andrey Andreich courting her and proposing, about her accepting him and then gradually coming to appreciate the true worth of that kind, clever man.
Athena's Owl 