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Contents
PREFACE BOOK FIRST. THE THREE WOMEN I. A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression II. Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble III. The Custom of the Country IV. The Halt on the Turnpike Road V. Perplexity among Honest People VI. The Figure against the Sky VII. Queen of Night VIII. Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody IX. Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy X. A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion XI. The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman BOOK SECOND. THE ARRIVAL I. Tidings of the Comer II. The People at Blooms-End Make Ready III. How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream IV. Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure V. Through the Moonlight VI. The Two Stand Face to Face VII. A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness VIII. Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart BOOK THIRD. THE FASCINATION I. “My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is” II. The New Course Causes Disappointment III. The First Act in a Timeworn Drama IV. An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness V. Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues VI. Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete VII. The Morning and the Evening of a Day VIII. A New Force Disturbs the Current BOOK FOURTH. THE CLOSED DOOR I. The Rencounter by the Pool II. He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song III. She Goes Out to Battle against Depression IV. Rough Coercion Is Employed V. The Journey across the Heath VI. A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian VII. The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends VIII. Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil BOOK FIFTH. THE DISCOVERY I. “Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery” II. A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding III. Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning IV. The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One V. An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated VI. Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter VII. The Night of the Sixth of November VIII. Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers IX. Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together BOOK SIXTH. AFTERCOURSES I. The Inevitable Movement Onward II. Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road III. The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin IV. Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His Vocation |
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서평(Book Review)
『고향으로의 귀환』은 토마스 하디의 작품 중 가장 어둡고 가장 시적인 소설로, 에그던 황야라는 공간이 단순한 배경을 넘어 소설 전체를 지배하는 하나의 거대한 운명적 존재로 기능하는 독보적인 작품이다. 하디는 소설의 첫 페이지에서부터 황야를 마치 살아 숨 쉬는 생명체처럼 묘사하며, 그 위에서 펼쳐지는 인간의 욕망과 꿈이 얼마나 덧없고 무력한 것인지를 처음부터 예고한다. 유스타시아 바이는 영문학 역사상 가장 강렬하고 가장 비극적인 여주인공 중 하나로, 황야를 탈출하려는 그녀의 불타는 열망과 그 열망을 끝내 채워주지 못하는 현실 사이의 간극이 이 소설의 심장을 이룬다. 클림과 유스타시아의 결혼은 사랑이 아닌 서로에 대한 오해와 환상 위에 세워진 것임을 하디는 냉정하게 보여주며, 그 균열이 서서히 그러나 돌이킬 수 없이 벌어지는 과정은 읽는 내내 숨을 조이게 한다. 인간이 자신의 운명을 거슬러 얼마나 멀리 달아날 수 있는지, 그리고 그 도망이 결국 어디서 끝나는지를 이토록 아름답고 이토록 잔인하게 그려낸 소설은 흔치 않다. The Return of the Native is Thomas Hardy at his most elemental ? a novel in which landscape and fate become indistinguishable from each other, and where the ancient, indifferent expanse of Egdon Heath functions less as setting than as verdict. Hardy's opening description of the heath is one of the great passages in English prose: vast, patient, and utterly without sympathy for the small human dramas about to unfold across its surface. Everything that follows feels pre-ordained by that opening ? and that sense of inevitability is precisely what gives the novel its devastating power. Eustacia Vye is the fire at the heart of it all ? one of Hardy's most fully realized and most heartbreaking creations, a woman of genuine greatness trapped in a life of suffocating smallness, whose tragedy is not that she dreamed too much but that she was placed somewhere that could never dream with her. Clym's return, which she greets as salvation, becomes instead another form of imprisonment ? and Hardy traces the slow, mutual destruction of their marriage with a precision that is almost clinical in its honesty. Dark, magnificent, and hauntingly beautiful, The Return of the Native is a novel that stays with you the way the heath itself stays with its characters ? as something inescapable, permanent, and larger than any single life lived upon it. |