Novel · Classic · 1846
Poor Folk
가난한 사람들
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About the book
Told in letters, the story follows an aging low-ranking clerk and a young seamstress who are distant relatives living in poverty in St. Petersburg. It was Dostoevsky's first novel.
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“At about eight o’clock I awoke from sleep (you know, my beloved one, that I always like to sleep for a short hour after my work is done)--I awoke, I say, and, lighting a candle, prepared my paper to write, and trimmed my pen.”
Poor Folk · Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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MY DEAREST BARBARA ALEXIEVNA,--How happy I was last night--how immeasurably, how impossibly happy!
나의 사랑하는 바바라 알렉시에브나에게, 어젯밤 나는 얼마나 행복했는지! 얼마나 헤아릴 수 없을 만큼, 얼마나 믿을 수 없을 만큼 행복했는지!
That was because for once in your life you had relented so far as to obey my wishes.
이는 당신이 일생 동안 처음으로 내 뜻에 순종하기로 마음을 돌렸기 때문입니다.
At about eight o’clock I awoke from sleep (you know, my beloved one, that I always like to sleep for a short hour after my work is done)--I awoke, I say, and, lighting a candle, prepared my paper to write, and trimmed my pen.
여덟 시쯤에 나는 잠에서 깨어났습니다. (사랑하는 당신도 알다시피, 나는 일이 끝나면 항상 잠깐 더 자는 것을 좋아합니다.) 나는 깨어나서 촛불을 켜고 글을 쓸 종이를 준비하고 펜을 다듬었습니다.
Then suddenly, for some reason or another, I raised my eyes--and felt my very heart leap within me!
그때 갑자기 무슨 이유인지 모르겠지만 눈을 들어 보니 내 심장이 쿵쾅거리는 것을 느꼈습니다!
For you had understood what I wanted, you had understood what my heart was craving for.
주님께서는 내가 원하는 바를 아셨고, 내 마음이 간절히 바라는 것을 아셨습니다.
Yes, I perceived that a corner of the curtain in your window had been looped up and fastened to the cornice as I had suggested should be done; and it seemed to me that your dear face was glimmering at the window, and that you were looking at me from out of the darkness of your room, and that you were thinking of me.
네, 제가 제안했던 대로 창문의 커튼 한쪽 끝이 휘어져 처마에 고정되어 있는 것을 보았습니다. 그리고 당신의 사랑스러운 얼굴이 창문에서 희미하게 빛나고 있는 것 같았고, 당신이 어둠 속 방에서 저를 바라보며 저를 생각하고 있는 것 같았습니다.
Yet how vexed I felt that I could not distinguish your sweet face clearly!
그러나 당신의 아름다운 얼굴을 분명하게 알아볼 수 없어서 얼마나 속상했던지요!
For there was a time when you and I could see one another without any difficulty at all.
우리가 서로 만나기에 전혀 어려움이 없었던 때가 있었습니다.
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Book details
- Title
- Poor Folk (가난한 사람들)
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- First published
- 1846
- Genre
- Novel, Classic
- Original language
- English
- Translations in app
- 21 languages
- Price
- Free