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์ €์ž ์•ผ๋‚˜๊ธฐํ•˜๋ผ ํ•œ์•ผ
์ปค๋ฒ„ ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ Peter Hujar (์‚ฌ์ง„)
Cardon Webb (๋””์ž์ธ)
๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ
์–ธ์–ด ์˜์–ด
๋ฐœํ–‰์ž Doubleday
๋ฐœํ–‰์ผ
2015 ๋…„
ํŽ˜์ด์ง€ 814
ISBN 0-385-53925-8
813 / .6
LC ํด๋ž˜์Šค PS3625.A674 L58 2015

๋ฆฌํ‹€ ๋ผ์ดํ”„ ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์†Œ์„ค๊ฐ€ ์•ผ๋‚˜๊ธฐํ•˜๋ผ ํ•˜๋‚˜์•ผ ์˜ 2015 ๋…„ ์†Œ์„ค์ด๋‹ค. ์†Œ์„ค์€ 18 ๊ฐœ์›”์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ž‘์„ฑ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [1] ๊ธธ๊ณ  ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์ฃผ์ œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ์…€๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [2]

์ค„๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์š”์•ฝ

์†Œ์„ค ์€ ๋Œ€ํ•™์—์„œ ์ค‘๋…„์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‰ด์š•์‹œ ์˜ ๋„ค ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜ ์‚ถ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค . ํŠนํžˆ ์‹ ๋น„ํ•œ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ, ๋ชจํ˜ธํ•œ ์ธ์ข…, ์„ค๋ช… ํ•  ์ˆ˜์—†๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ Jude์— ์ค‘์ ์„ ๋‘ก๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Jude๋Š” ์ ˆ๋š ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๊ฑธ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ฒ™์ถ”์— ์‹ฌํ•œ ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ์†์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ ํ†ต์„ ๋ฐ›์•„ ํฐ ๊ณ ํ†ต์„ ๊ฒช์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์–ด๋ ธ์„ ๋•Œ ์ž…์€ ์ฐจ ๋ถ€์ƒ์„ ํƒ“ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์— ์•Œ๋ ค์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ ์Šต๊ด€์ ์œผ๋กœ ์žํ•ด ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์—๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ง‘์— ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€์œ  ํ•œ ํ˜ผํ˜ˆ ๊ฐ€์ • ์˜ ๊ณ ๊ตฐ๋ถ„ํˆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€ ์ธ Malcolm์ด ํฌํ•จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค . ์•„์ดํ‹ฐ ์˜ ํ™”๊ฐ€ JBํ•˜๊ฐ•; ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‘˜ ๋‹ค ๊ณ ์•„์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— Jude์™€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์•ผ์‹ฌ ์ฐฌ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ Willem. ์กธ์—… ํ›„ Jude์™€ Willem์€ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์— ๋น„ํ•ด ์ƒ๋Œ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋นˆ๊ณคํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— 1 ๋ฒ ๋“œ๋ฃธ ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๋ช…๋ฐฑํ•œ ์นœ๋ฐ€๊ฐ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , Jude๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๋˜๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ๋งˆ์Œ ์ƒํƒœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์„ธ๋ถ€ ์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ๋ฃธ๋ฉ”์ดํŠธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ˆ„์„ค ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Œ์„ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฒ•๋ฅ  ์—…๋ฌด์—์„œ ๋ฒˆ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์ „ ๊ต์ˆ˜ ์ธ Harold ๋ฐ ๊ทธ์˜ ์•„๋‚ด Julia์™€ ๊ธด๋ฐ€ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ชจ-์ž๋…€ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ์ „์‹œ์ผœ Jude๊ฐ€ 30 ์„ธ๊ฐ€๋˜๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ž…์–‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๋ง™๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ž…์–‘๋˜๊ธฐ ์ „์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ์ž์‹ ์ด ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์• ์ •์„ ๊ฐ€์งˆ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์žํ•ด๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œํŽธ ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์€ Willem์ด ์—ฐ๊ทน ์Šคํƒ€๊ฐ€ ๋œ ํ›„ ์˜ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ฐ๋Š” ๋“ฑ ๊ฐ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ๊ฑฐ๋‘์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. JB๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€๋กœ์„œ ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ๊ฑฐ๋‘์ง€ ๋งŒ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํƒˆ ๋ฉ”์Šค์— ์ค‘๋…๋œ๋‹ค . ๊ทธ๋ฃน์€ ๊ฐœ์ž… ๋‹จ๊ณ„, JB๋Š” ์ ˆ๋š ๊ฑฐ๋ฆผ์„ ์กฐ์žกํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ชจ๋ฐฉํ•˜์—ฌ Jude๋ฅผ ์กฐ๋กฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ๋Œ€์šฐ์™€ ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  Jude๋Š” JB๋ฅผ ์šฉ์„œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Willem์€ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์šฉ์„œํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์„ ๋ถ„์—ด์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  Malcolm๋งŒ์ด ๋„ค ๋ฉค๋ฒ„ ๋ชจ๋‘์™€ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊ฒผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Jude๋Š” ์•„์ฃผ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ๋‚˜์ด์— ์„ฑ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ์ž…์–ด ์—ฐ์•  ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋งบ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋ ค์›  ์Œ์ด ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ์™€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ 40 ๋Œ€์— ์ ‘์–ด ๋“ค๋ฉด์„œ์ด ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์˜๋ฌธ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ํŠนํžˆ ์œŒ๋ ˜์€ ์ฃผ๋“œ์˜ ์„น์Šˆ์–ผ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋‹นํ˜น์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™ธ๋กœ์›€์ด ๋” ์‹ฌํ•ด์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ฃผ๋“œ์˜ ์ ˆ๋š ๊ฑฐ๋ฆผ๊ณผ ํœ ์ฒด์–ด โ€‹โ€‹์‚ฌ์šฉ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์— ํ˜์˜ค๊ฐ์„ ๋А๋ผ๋Š” ํŒจ์…˜ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž ์ผ€์ผ๋Ÿฝ๊ณผ ํ•™๋Œ€์ ์ธ ๊ด€๊ณ„์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ„๋‹ค. Jude๋Š” Caleb์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•๊ฐ„ ํ•œ ํ›„ ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋Š๊ณ  Caleb์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ผ Harold์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ €๋… ์‹์‚ฌ๋ฅผํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์š• ํ•œ ๋‹ค์Œ Jude๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ์—์„œ ์ž”์ธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋•Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•๊ฐ„ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ฃฝ๊ฒŒํ•˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋งž์ดํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  Jude๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์ด ๋‹น์—ฐํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์„ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Harold์™€ Andy, Jude ๋งŒ

Jude์˜ ๋ชธ์€ ์น˜์œ ๋˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฐ•๊ฐ„์€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜๋„์› ์—์„œ ์ž๋ž€ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ๋กœ ํšŒ์ƒํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ํ˜•์ œ๋“ค์— ์˜ํ•ด ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•™๋Œ€๋ฅผ๋‹นํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ํ˜•์ œ ์ค‘ ํ•œ ๋ช…์ธ ๋ฃจํฌ ํ˜•์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋„๋ง์ณ ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ์•„๋™ ๋งค์ถ˜์„ํ•˜๊ฒŒํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋•Œ๋ฅผ ํšŒ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์˜ํ•ด ๊ตฌ์กฐ ๋œ ํ›„, Jude๋Š” ์ฃผ์ •๋ถ€์˜ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ฒŒ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ํ•™๋Œ€๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹ด์›๋“ค์˜ ์†์— ๊ณ„์†๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Caleb๊ณผ์˜ ์ด๋ณ„์ด ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ์˜ ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๋˜์ฐพ์€ ํ›„, Jude๋Š” ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ์ž์‚ดํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์‹œ๋„์—์„œ ์‚ด์•„๋‚จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌํŒŒ๋กœ Willem์€ ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™€ ๊ทธ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‚ด๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Jude๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ Willem์€ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๋ ค์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Willem์€ ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•˜๊ณ  ๋”์ฐํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๊ณง ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ Jude๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๊ฐœ๋ฐฉ์— ์–ด๋ ค์›€์„ ๊ฒช๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ์™€ ์„น์Šค๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ์˜ ์ ˆ๋‹จ์„ ์–ต์ œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด Jude๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹  ์žํ•ด์˜ ํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ์žํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์šฐ์—ฐํžˆ ํ”ผ๋ถ€ ์ด์‹์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ 3๋„ ํ™”์ƒ์„ ์ž… ํž™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ์ฒ˜๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์‹ฌํ•ด์„œ Andy๋Š” Willem์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋งํ•ด์ฃผ์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•ด์ฃผ๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Jude๊ฐ€ Willem์—๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์— Andy๋Š” ์‹ค์ˆ˜๋กœ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋ˆ„์„คํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œŒ๋ ˜์€ ๊ฒ์— ์งˆ ๋ ธ์ง€๋งŒ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์‹ธ์›€ ๋์— ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ์ž์‹ ์ด ์„น์Šค๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ณ ๋ฐฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์œŒ๋ ˜์—๊ฒŒ ์ž์‹ ์ด ๊ฒฌ๋ŽŒ์˜จ ์„ฑ์  ๋ฐ ์‹ ์ฒด์  ํ•™๋Œ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ์— ์†์ƒ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ ์›์ธ์ด Dr. Traylor๋ผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์— ์˜ํ•ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋Š” 15 ์„ธ์— ์ฃผ์ •๋ถ€ ์ง„๋ฃŒ์†Œ์—์„œ ๋„๋ง์ณ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ถ™์žก์•„ ํฌ๋กœ๋กœ ์žก์•˜๊ณ  ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ์ฐจ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ซ“์•„ ๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Willem์€ Jude๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ž๋ฉด์„œ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋Š” ๊ณ„์† ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํŽธ์•ˆํ•œ ์ƒํ™œ์— ์ ์‘ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ฃผ๋‹ค์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๋น ์ง€๋ฉด ํ”๋“ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งˆ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•ด ์ ˆ๋‹จํ•ด์•ผํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ณด์ฒ ๋ฌผ ๋กœ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ฑท๋Š” ๋ฒ•์„ ๋ฐฐ์›๋‹ˆ๋‹ค., ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์Œ์€ Willem์ด "The Happy Years"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์‚ถ์˜ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ„๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ์ฐจ์—ญ์—์„œ ๋ง์ฝค๊ณผ ๊ทธ์˜ ์•„๋‚ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ ์œŒ๋ ˜์€ ์Œ์ฃผ ์šด์ „์ž์™€ ๊ตํ†ต ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผํ•˜์—ฌ ์„ธ ๋ช…์˜ ํƒ‘์Šน์ž๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ฃฝ์ธ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์นœํ•œ ๋‘ ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์ฃฝ์€ ์ƒํƒœ์—์„œ Jude๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ์ž๊ธฐ ํŒŒ๊ดด์ ์ธ ์Šต๊ด€์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด๋ ค์™€ ๋‚จ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฐœ์ž…์„ ํ•  ์ •๋„๋กœ ๊ณผ๋„ํ•œ ์ฒด์ค‘์„ ์žƒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์ฒด์ค‘์„ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๋„๋ก ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ์šฐ์šธ์ฆ๊ณผ ์ ˆ๋ง์ด ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด Jude๋ฅผ ์ถ”์›”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ชฉ์ˆจ์„ ์•—์•„๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ตฌ์กฐ

A Little Life๋Š” 7 ๊ฐœ์˜ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋‰˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ „์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž์ฃผ ํšŒ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ํšŒ์ƒ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์—ฐ๋Œ€ ๊ธฐ์  ๋‚ด๋Ÿฌํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ์„ค์˜ ๋‚ด๋Ÿฌํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ๊ด€์ ์€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ ๋ฐ”๋€๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ์„ค ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜์—๋Š” Jude 's, Willem 's, JB 's ๋˜๋Š” Malcolm์˜ ์ƒ๊ฐ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ํŠน๊ถŒ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ผ๋Š” 3 ์ธ์นญ ์ „์ง€์  ๊ด€์ ์ด ํ™œ์šฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ ์ฐจ ์ฃผ๋“œ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ์ดˆ์ ์„ ์ด๋™ํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ, ๊ทธ ๊ด€์ ์€ ๊ฐ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ์™€ ์ฃผ๋“œ์˜ ์ƒํ˜ธ ์ž‘์šฉ ๋ฐ ์ฃผ๋“œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ ์ง„์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜•์„ฑ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ฌธํ•™์  ๊ด€์ ์€ ๋” ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ํ•ด๋กค๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆํŠน์ • ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งํ•œ ์ผ์ธ์นญ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ์— ์˜ํ•ด ๊ฐ•์กฐ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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๋‚จ์„ฑ ๊ด€๊ณ„

์†Œ์„ค์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ดˆ์ ์€ Jude, Willem, JB, Malcolm ๋ฐ Jude์˜ ์–‘์•„๋ฒ„์ง€ Harold ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„์˜ ์ง„ํ™”์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ฃผ๋“œ์˜ ์‚ถ์€ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์•„๋ผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ฐฉ์ทจํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•™๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‘ ๋ฒ”์ฃผ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ํ•œ๊ณ„ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์— ๋น ์ง„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ ๋‚จ์„ฑ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ์˜ ์‚ฌํšŒ์ , ์ •์„œ์  ์‚ถ์€ ์†Œ์„ค์„ ์งœ๋Š” ์ง๋ฌผ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‹จ์„œ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ ๋œ ๋‚ด๋Ÿฌํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ๋ฒ„๋ธ”์„ ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์‚ผ]

์•ผ๋‚˜๊ธฐํ•˜๋ผ (Yanagihara)๋Š” ๋…์ž์˜ ๊ด€์ ์„ ์ œํ•œํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ์˜ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ์ƒํ™œ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์‚ถ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๊ณ  ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ ์ „์ฒด์— ํฉ์–ด์ ธ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ด ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์—†๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์†Œ์„ค์€ ๋‚ญ๋งŒ์  ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘, ์šฐ์ • ๋ฐ ๊ด€๊ณ„์˜ ์žฅ์ ๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ณ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฐ˜์ถ”๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ด€๊ณ„์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต๊ณผ ์ฃผ๋“œ์™€์˜ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ ์‹œ๋„์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ์˜ ์กด์žฌ๋Š” ์ข…์ข… ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ์™€ ๊ณ ํ†ต์„ ๋‹ค๋ฃฐ ๋•Œ ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ๊ณผ ์™ธ๋กœ์›€์œผ๋กœ ์ •์ฒด๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ฑ์ธ์ด ๋œ ๋™์•ˆ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ช‡ ๋ฒˆ์˜ ์‹œ๋„๋Š” ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์„ฑ์  ํ•™๋Œ€์™€ ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต, ์ฆ‰ ์นผ๋ ™๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„์—์„œ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠธ๋ ˆ ์ด๋Ÿฌ ๋ฐ•์‚ฌ, ๋ฃจํฌ ํ˜•์ œ, ์†Œ๋…„์˜ ๊ฐ€์ • ์ƒ๋‹ด์ž๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ํ•™๋Œ€ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํšŒ์ƒ์€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ ํ•œ ํ•™๋Œ€์™€ ์ฐฉ์ทจ์˜ ๋„๋•์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ •์„œ์  ์ธ ๊ทน๋‹จ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜์ด ์†Œ์„ค์€ ์ž…์–‘ ๋œ ์•„๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์˜ ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด์ ์ธ ์ž๋น„๋กœ์šด ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ํ•ด๋กค๋“œ์˜ ๋‚˜๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ณ‘์น˜๋˜๋„๋ก ์ดˆ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [ ์ธ์šฉ ํ•„์š” ]

์™ธ์ƒ, ํšŒ๋ณต ๋ฐ ์ง€์›

์ž‘์„ฑ๋œ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ๋‰ด์š• ๋งค๊ฑฐ์ง„ [๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด] ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์‹œ์ž‘ (๋˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ‘œ์‹œ)์— ... ๋” ์—†์—ˆ์–ด ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต์„ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์ตœ์ข… ์•„ํ”ˆ, ์•ผ๋‚˜๊ธฐํ•˜๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ [๊ทธ๋…€๋Š”์ด ์ฑ…๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค "๊ณ  ์ง„์ˆ ์„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค โ€“ ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต๊ณผ ์ค„๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์ž์ฒดโ€. [4] ์„ฑ์ , ์‹ ์ฒด์ , ์ •์‹ ์  ํ•™๋Œ€์— ์‹œ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์œ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ์• ์˜ ์ฒซ 16 ๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ์„ฑ์ธ์ด ๋˜์–ด๋„ ๊ณ„์† ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๊ดด๋กญํžŒ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ์ •์‹ ์ , ์œก์ฒด์  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•, ๊ด€๊ณ„, ์‹ ๋… ๋ฐ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ํƒ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ์ง์ ‘์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์นฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ชธ๊ณผ ์ •์‹ ์— ์ž…ํžŒ ํ”ผํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด ์„œ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ณ ๊ตฐ๋ถ„ํˆฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์†Œ์„ค์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์— ์•ž์„œ ์ฃผ๋“œ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ง ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ž ์ธ Ana์™€ ์†Œ์„ค์˜ ํ›„๋ฐ˜๋ถ€์— ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š” Willem ์™ธ์—๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Jude์˜ ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ์นœ๊ตฌ์™€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ์‚ฌ์ด์— ์ƒํ˜ธ ์ง€์› ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ• ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ์ขŒ์ ˆ๊ฐ์€ ์†Œ์„ค์—์„œ ๋Š์ž„์—†๋Š” ๊ธด์žฅ์˜ ์ง€์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Andy๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ Jude์˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์€ Jude๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์‹ ์ฒด์  ์ž๊ธฐ ํŒŒ๊ดด์  ํ–‰๋™์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์‹์„ ์€๋‹‰ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ด๋„๋ก ํ—ˆ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์œค๋ฆฌ์  ์„ ํƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜๊ตฌ์‹ฌ์— ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์‹œ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ์„ค ๋‚ด๋‚ด ์ฃผ๋“œ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ํ–‰๋™๊ณผ ๋„์›€์„๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์‚ฌ๊ณผํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [ ์ธ์šฉ ํ•„์š” ]

๋งŒ์„ฑ ํ†ต์ฆ, ์žฅ์•  ๋ฐ ์žํ•ด

A Little Life ๋Š” ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ , ๋งŒ์„ฑ ํ†ต์ฆ ๋ฐ ์žฅ์• ๋ฅผ ๊ฒช๋Š” ์ผ์ƒ์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค., ์„œ๋กœ ๊ณ ์œ  ํ•œ ๊ต์ฐจ์ ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Traylor ๋ฐ•์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํƒ€๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ซ“์•„ ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋Š” ์ง์ ‘์ ์ธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋กœ, Jude์˜ ์ฒ™์ถ” ๋ถ€์ƒ์€ ํ‰์ƒ ๋™์•ˆ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๊ดด๋กญํžˆ๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์ƒ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์นฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋“ฑ์˜ ์‹ ๊ฒฝ์ด ๋‹จ์ ˆ๋˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ์— ๋ณ‘๋ณ€์ด ํ˜•์„ฑ๋˜์–ด ์‹ฌํ•œ ํ†ต์ฆ์„ ๋А๋ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ฑท๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋ ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ๋Š์ž„์—†๋Š” ๋…๋ฆฝ ์„ฑํ–ฅ์€ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์น˜๋ฃŒ์™€ ์ˆ˜์ˆ ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚˜์ด๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ฉด์„œ ๋ชธ์ด ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์ €ํ•ญํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ธ์šฐ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์—์„œ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Jude๋Š” ์žํ•ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ชธ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ œ์–ดํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์‚ถ์€ ๊ณ ํ†ต๊ณผ ๊ณ ํ†ต์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Jude๋Š” ๋‚˜์ด๊ฐ€ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํœ ์ฒด์–ด, ์ง€ํŒก์ด์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์žฅ์น˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜์กด๋„๊ฐ€ ๋†’์•„์ง€๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ๋ณด์‚ดํ•Œ์— ์˜์กดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์‹ซ์–ดํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์ธ์šฉ ํ•„์š” ]

์ˆ˜์‹ 

๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ ์• ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ ๊ฒŒ์ดํ„ฐ ์›น ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ์ธ Book Marks ๋Š” ์ด 22 ๊ฐœ ์ค‘ 3 ๊ฐœ์˜ ๋ถ€์ •์ ์ธ ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ์™€ 3 ๊ฐœ์˜ ํ˜ผํ•ฉ ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ๋ฅผ๋ณด๊ณ ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ธ์ •์  ์ธ ๋น„ํŒ์  ๋ฐ˜์‘์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€ ๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์—์„œ 11 ๋ช…์˜ ๋น„ํ‰๊ฐ€๋“ค์ด์ด ์ฑ…์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ฒฉ์ฐฌ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ 5 ๋ช…์€ ๊ธ์ •์  ์ธ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค. [5] ์ด ์†Œ์„ค์€ The New Yorker , The Atlantic , The Wall Street Journal ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์ถœํŒ๋ฌผ ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ธ์ •์  ์ธ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค . [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

In The Atlantic, Garth Greenwell suggested that A Little Life is "the long-awaited gay novel": "It engages with aesthetic modes long coded as queer: melodrama, sentimental fiction, grand opera. By violating the canons of current literary taste, by embracing melodrama and exaggeration and sentiment, it can access emotional truth denied more modest means of expression."[11]

In the London Review of Books, Christian Lorentzen referred to the main character's "gothic inverted fairytale origins" and "ghastly litany of childhood sexual abuse." The characters, he wrote, "seem like stereotypical middle-class strivers plucked out of 1950s cinema." He asked in regard to a minor character who became a crystal meth addict, "What real person trapped in this novel wouldn't become a drug addict?"[12]

Yanagihara appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers to discuss the book.[13] In July 2015, the book was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize[14] and made the shortlist of six books in September 2015.[15] In 2019, A Little Life was ranked 96th on The Guardian's list of the 100 best books of the 21st century.[16]

Awards

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The theatre company Toneelgroep Amsterdam debuted an adaptation of A Little Life on September 23, 2018 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Ivo van Hove directed the adaptation, which had a run time of over four hours.[23] Van Hove collaborated with Yanagihara on the script after being given copies of the novel by two friends.[24] Ramsey Nasr plays the lead, Jude St. Francis, in the adaptation which received positive reviews. Theatre critic Matt Trueman wrote that, despite the play's sometime suffocating trauma and violence, it "is van Hove at his best, theatre that leaves an ineradicble mark."[25]

References

  1. ^ Yanagihara, Hanya (28 April 2015). "How I Wrote My Novel: Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life". Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  2. ^ Maloney, Jennifer. "How 'A Little Life' Became a Sleeper Hit". Retrieved 13 October 2015.
  3. ^ McCann, Sean. ""I'm So Sorry": A Little Life and the Socialism of the Rich". Post45. POST45. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  4. ^ Yanagihara, Hanya. "How I Wrote My Novel: Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life". Vulture. New York Magazine. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  5. ^ "A Little Life". Book Marks. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  6. ^ Michaud, Jon. "The Subversive Brilliance of "A Little Life"". The New Yorker.
  7. ^ Sacks, Sam (6 March 2015). "Fiction Chronicle: Jude the Obscure". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  8. ^ Anshaw, Carol (30 March 2015). "Hanya Yanagihara's 'A Little Life'". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  9. ^ Powers, John (19 March 2015). "'A Little Life': An Unforgettable Novel About The Grace Of Friendship". NPR. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  10. ^ Cha, Steph (19 March 2015). "'A Little Life' a darkly beautiful tale of love and friendship". LA Times. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
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