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Novel · Classic · 1869

The Idiot Volume 1

백치 1권

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Prince Myshkin, a gentle and naive man, returns to Russia after treatment in a Swiss sanatorium. He is drawn into the tangled relationships of St. Petersburg society.

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“Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o’clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed.” The Idiot Volume 1 · Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o’clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed.

11월 말, 해빙기 무렵 어느 날 아침 9시에 바르샤바와 상트페테르부르크를 잇는 철도 열차가 상트페테르부르크를 향해 전속력으로 달려가고 있었습니다.

The morning was so damp and misty that it was only with great difficulty that the day succeeded in breaking; and it was impossible to distinguish anything more than a few yards away from the carriage windows.

아침은 너무 습하고 안개가 자욱해서 날이 밝아오기가 매우 어려웠고, 마차 창문에서 몇 야드 앞밖에는 아무것도 분간할 수 없었다.

Some of the passengers by this particular train were returning from abroad; but the third-class carriages were the best filled, chiefly with insignificant persons of various occupations and degrees, picked up at the different stations nearer town.

이 열차의 승객 중에는 해외에서 돌아오는 사람들도 있었지만, 3등석 객차는 가장 붐볐는데, 주로 마을 근처의 여러 역에서 태워진 다양한 직업과 신분의 보잘것없는 사람들이었다.

All of them seemed weary, and most of them had sleepy eyes and a shivering expression, while their complexions generally appeared to have taken on the colour of the fog outside.

그들 모두는 피곤해 보였고, 대부분은 졸린 눈과 떨리는 표정을 짓고 있었으며, 그들의 안색은 대체로 바깥의 안개 색깔을 띠고 있었다.

When day dawned, two passengers in one of the third-class carriages found themselves opposite each other.

날이 밝자 3등칸 객차에 탄 두 승객이 서로 마주 보게 되었습니다.

Both were young fellows, both were rather poorly dressed, both had remarkable faces, and both were evidently anxious to start a conversation.

둘 다 젊은이였고, 둘 다 옷차림이 다소 허름했고, 둘 다 얼굴이 특이했고, 둘 다 대화를 시작하고 싶어 안달이 난 듯했습니다.

If they had but known why, at this particular moment, they were both remarkable persons, they would undoubtedly have wondered at the strange chance which had set them down opposite to one another in a third-class carriage of the Warsaw Railway Company.

만일 그들이 왜 하필 이 순간에 두 사람이 특별한 사람이 되었는지 알았더라면, 그들은 틀림없이 바르샤바 철도 회사의 3등석 객차에서 서로 마주 보게 된 이상한 우연에 대해 의아해했을 것이다.

One of them was a young fellow of about twenty-seven, not tall, with black curling hair, and small, grey, fiery eyes.

그들 중 한 사람은 스물일곱 살쯤 된 젊은이였는데, 키는 크지 않고 검은 곱슬머리에 작고 회색빛의 불타는 눈을 가지고 있었습니다.

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Book details

Title
The Idiot Volume 1 (백치 1권)
Author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
First published
1869
Genre
Novel, Classic
Original language
English
Translations in app
21 languages
Price
Free

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