Novel · Mystery · 1908
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
목요일이었던 남자: 악몽
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A poet is recruited into a secret anti-anarchist police force and joins the central council of anarchists, each named for a day of the week. The story is a surreal thriller.
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“It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen…”
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare · G. K. Chesterton
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The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset.
런던의 해질녘에 위치한 사프론 파크 교외 지역은 해질녘 구름처럼 붉고 거칠었다.
It was built of a bright brick throughout; its sky-line was fantastic, and even its ground plan was wild.
그 건물은 전체적으로 밝은 벽돌로 지어졌으며, 하늘은 환상적이었고, 심지어 평면도도 독특했습니다.
It had been the outburst of a speculative builder, faintly tinged with art, who called its architecture sometimes Elizabethan and sometimes Queen Anne, apparently under the impression that the two sovereigns were identical.
이는 예술적 감각이 약간 가미된 한 투기적인 건축가의 폭발적인 발언이었는데, 그는 그 건축 양식을 때로는 엘리자베스 시대 양식으로, 때로는 앤 여왕 시대 양식으로 불렀으며, 두 군주가 동일인물이라고 생각했던 것 같습니다.
It was described with some justice as an artistic colony, though it never in any definable way produced any art.
그곳은 예술가들의 거주지라고 어느 정도 정확하게 묘사되었지만, 어떤 방식으로든 명확하게 예술 작품을 만들어낸 적은 없었습니다.
But although its pretensions to be an intellectual centre were a little vague, its pretensions to be a pleasant place were quite indisputable.
그러나 그곳이 지적인 중심지라는 주장은 다소 모호했지만, 그곳이 쾌적한 곳이라는 주장은 매우 분명했습니다.
The stranger who looked for the first time at the quaint red houses could only think how very oddly shaped the people must be who could fit in to them.
그 특이한 붉은 집들을 처음 본 나그네는 그 집에 들어갈 수 있는 사람들이 얼마나 기이한 생김새를 가졌을지 생각할 수밖에 없었다.
Nor when he met the people was he disappointed in this respect.
그가 백성을 만났을 때에도 이 점에 있어서 실망하지 않으셨다.
The place was not only pleasant, but perfect, if once he could regard it not as a deception but rather as a dream.
그곳은 즐거울 뿐만 아니라 완벽했습니다. 다만 그가 그곳을 속임수가 아니라 꿈으로 여길 수만 있다면 말입니다.
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Book details
- Title
- The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (목요일이었던 남자: 악몽)
- Author
- G. K. Chesterton
- First published
- 1908
- Genre
- Novel, Mystery, Fantasy
- Original language
- English
- Translations in app
- 20 languages
- Price
- Free