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무슨 말을 해야 할지를 모르는 것과 무슨 말을 해도 될지를 모르는 것은 다르다. 하고 싶었던 이야기를 모두 지우고 다른 글을 써 보내야만 했을 때, 난 문체가 알고 싶어졌다. 여름밤이지만 벌레 우는 소리는 들리지 않았다. 내가 사는 곳은 그만큼 높은 곳에 있었다. 소쩍거리는 울음, 볼에 다가온 새벽의 이슬 기운이 너무나 가깝게 느껴져 두려웠던 시기였다. 도마 위에선 사랑하는 이에게 무엇이라도 해주고픈 이의 손놀림이 서걱서걱 들려오던 시기였다. 가로로 세 번, 세로로 세 번, 곱게 썰린 양파가 도마 위로 쏟아지는 모습에 그녀의 마음이 투영된 것처럼 보이던 그때. 그녀는 아마 천사였을지도 모른다. 그러나 난 천사가 필요하지 않았고 그 사실이 내게 아무런 문제도 일으키지 않았다. 그런데도 그녀는 내게 "당신이..

우아하고 감상적인 산책로/익숙한 길 2009. 5. 18. 16:17

The surprising news that Patrick Süskind, known as a person who always ready to retire and hide from the world, a hermit, had written a book round love reached my ears. What did he say about love? I firmly believed he had written differently from the way the others were written. I cannot but read this book. So, what did I feel about what I read? Was I satisfied? At least in the story of Orpheus ..

텍스트의 즐거움 2009. 3. 2. 16:13

In my life, there was always an inevitable meeting. Such was the meeting of Grenier; when I came to know of Camus, the encounter wih Grenier had been already foreseen. It was not because he and I were connected with a fatal string, but because almost all critics, reviewers were saying to me of Grenier with his works binding with Camus' ones. In fact I already had known of Grenier's some words be..

텍스트의 즐거움 2009. 2. 26. 16:13

I was twenty-three when I was heard about Italo Calvino. I had no idea about him that minute, even any his books. Clearly I had hardly try for finding out things on him from that day forward. Perhaps I would have believed that somday I'll encounter him for some reason or other. Although for many days I had lived forgetting him, I'd make an effort to call him to mind whenever his name tried to en..

텍스트의 즐거움 2009. 2. 25. 16:14

His parents were watching TV. He was sitting down a chair away from parents. He took popcorns into his mouth. He looked at them and turned her eye to the TV. He thought it is so strange because they seemed uninterested in knowing what TV is shwoing. Why did they fix their eyes on there all the time even though they don't have any interest? He kept his hand in the bowl laying on his laps, and sai..

텍스트의 즐거움 2009. 2. 16. 16:15

These days, after getting up in the morning, I would read proses. Glancing up at my bookshelf, to find one instant to sink an anxious feeling, I would touch it. Between the conscious and unconscious the nothingness have always existed. In fact I did not know it was really something to be called nothingness. I just, it seemed to me, touched something situated outside my will. And it would call pr..

텍스트의 즐거움 2009. 1. 15. 16:44

It is not difficult to know that Caravaggio, or Rubens, or Monet's works have tremendous beauty. The moment we see them, we know these are sublime art. But Pollock, or Kooning, or Rothko's works give us a very different feeling contrary to an earlier artist. There are the odd lines and incomprehensible colors in their paintings. Thier paintings don't seem to have any specific form, shape and fig..

나침반과 지도 2009. 1. 7. 02:52

좋은 책을 가르는 기준은 사람마다 다르다. 모든 사람들이 읽고 싶어하는 베스트셀러를 난 싫어할 수도 있는 일이다. 생각은 언제나 다른 법이다. 이 책에 대한 평가 역시 앞의 관점과 같을 거라 생각한다. 어떤 이는 이 책을 배울 점이라고는 전혀 없는 형편없는 사소설이라 말할 것이다. 심지어 그들 중 몇몇은 이 작가가 소설을 잘 풀어내기 위해 일부러 그런 삶을 살았다고 말할지도 모른다. 그들은 이런 자기 파괴적 소설에선 어떤 것도 배울 수 없다고 믿는다. 하지만 어떤 이들은 그들과는 반대로 말할 것이다. 그들은 비록 그것이 아무리 사소한 인간적인 것일지라도 이 소설엔 도덕적인 교훈이 담겨 있다고 말할 것이다. 그들은 인간의 감정을 가장 중요한 것으로 여긴다. 물론 나는 감히 훌륭한 소설가의 책을 비판하는 우..

텍스트의 즐거움 2008. 12. 23. 16:49

As usual the formal education ended early. I went straight to a certain bookstore without hesitation. I had a partiality for that bookstore because it had a lot of foreign books unlike other bookstore. Ordinary stores had just them by the reason of formality. Booksellers seemed to be reluctant to display foreign books to provide an assortment. And moreover, the section would be almost filled wit..

텍스트의 즐거움 2008. 10. 24. 16:56

Many aspects of our life are linked to some superstitious belief. As a rule, this superstitious belief is born with an aim to protect us and has sound reasoning. I also have such belief. I believe that pronouncing my hope for the future will obstruct to realize it. This belief is not reasonable, but can protect me from feeble mind. In fact, to this case, taciturnity seems to be far better than h..

텍스트의 즐거움 2008. 9. 21. 17:02

비가 내리다 말았는지 하얀 운동화가 금세 축축해지고 마는 골목을 걷다가 문득 나를 부르는 듯한 소리에 뒤를 돌아보지만 보이는 것은 축축한 어둠 그 자체였다 갈 길이 먼 나를 멈추게 하는 것이 비단 환청만은 아닌지라 편의점에서 구입한 담배를 한 개비 물어 불을 붙일 때도 나는 불길이 그 가느다란 담배를 다 태워버리는 것도 잊은 채 바람을 맞고 있었다 분명 그것은 움직임 없는 바람이었고 그 탓에 담배는 조용히 사라져갔다 어느 날에는 집으로 가는 길을 잊어버렸고 혼자 마시는 맥주의 쌉싸름한 뒷맛도 예전 같지 않았다 거리는 어둠 속에서 유일하게 빛나는 작은 상영관이었다 모든 사람이 주연이었고 조연이었으며 단역이었다. 나를 부르는 소리 밤이 깊을수록 더욱 선명해졌고 그럴 때면 홀린 듯 신발을 거꾸로 신고 어둠 속..

우아하고 감상적인 산책로/시 2008. 5. 14. 01:56

Yesterday (last Sunday) I went to Gangnam station to see my cousins. After saying bye to them, I dropped in at Gyobo bookstore neighboring. Looking around the bookstore I could see this book. At that time I thought I had not heard of this book though it was first published in 1960 (French) before I came across it. (Now, I got to know that I had read that book in my childhood in Korean version) I..

텍스트의 즐거움 2008. 4. 28. 17:38