Novel · Classic · 1899
Heart of Darkness
암흑의 핵심
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Marlow recounts a journey up the Congo River to find Kurtz, an ivory trader at a remote station. The voyage becomes a study of colonialism and the human mind.
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“The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.”
Heart of Darkness · Joseph Conrad
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The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
순항용 요트인 넬리는 돛을 펄럭이지 않고 닻을 내리고 고요히 정박했습니다.
The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
홍수가 지나가고 바람도 거의 잔잔해졌으며 강을 따라 흘러가고 있었으므로, 할 수 있는 일은 조류가 바뀌기를 기다리는 것뿐이었습니다.
The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway.
템스 강의 해안선은 마치 끝없는 수로의 시작처럼 우리 앞에 펼쳐져 있었다.
In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits.
먼 곳에서는 바다와 하늘이 이음매 없이 하나로 합쳐져 있었고, 빛나는 공간에서는 조류를 따라 떠오르는 배들의 그을린 돛이 뾰족한 붉은색 캔버스 덩어리로 정지해 있는 듯 보였고, 광택이 나는 돛대가 반짝였다.
A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness.
안개가 바다로 끝없이 펼쳐진 낮은 해안에 드리워져 있었다.
The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth.
그레이브센드 위의 공기는 어두웠고, 더 멀리 떨어진 곳은 마치 슬픔에 잠긴 어둠이 응축된 듯, 세상에서 가장 크고 위대한 도시를 고요히 뒤덮고 있는 것 같았습니다.
The Director of Companies was our captain and our host.
회사 책임자가 우리 선장이자 손님 접대자였습니다.
We four affectionately watched his back as he stood in the bows looking to seaward.
우리 넷은 그가 뱃머리에 서서 바다를 바라보는 그의 뒷모습을 애정 어린 눈으로 지켜보았습니다.
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Book details
- Title
- Heart of Darkness (암흑의 핵심)
- Author
- Joseph Conrad
- First published
- 1899
- Genre
- Novel, Classic, Adventure
- Original language
- English
- Translations in app
- 21 languages
- Price
- Free