오스카 와일드 <도리안 그레이의 초상> 독후감+인상적인 구절

 

Originally published June 1, 1890

Author Oscar Wilde

Genre Classics · Fiction · Horror · Fantasy · Gothic · Literature · Novels · 19th Century · LGBT

CharactersBasil Hallward · Lord Henry Wotton · Sibyl Vane · James Vane · Lady Victoria Wotton · Alan Campbell · Henry Ashton · Adrian Singleton · Lord Staveley · Lady Gwendolen · Lady Narborough · Duchess of Monmouth · Dorian Gray

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도리안그레이는 내가 초등학생일때 처음 읽고 굉장히 큰 인상을 받았던 책이다. 그런데 그때는 여러모로 모르는것이 많아서 그렇구나 하고 넘어간 부분이 많은 책인데 다시 읽으면서 왜 이 책을 그토록 좋아하면서 동시에 가볍다고 여겼는지 다시 느꼈다. 우선, 책에 헨리 워튼이라는 인물이 하는 대사중 굉장히 결혼과 사랑, 여자에 대해 미소지닉한 대사가 많다는 것을 염두에 두고 읽어야 한다. 하지만 인간 욕망의 심리적 탐구와 고딕풍의 그리스식 비극에서 이 소설은 시대를 뛰어넘는 매력을 가진다.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.

p.3

오 이 문장의 아이러니.. 솔직히 동감한다

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.(...)

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the worlds. Tell me more about Mr. Dorian Gray

p.9,10

The harmony of soul and body-how much that is! We in our madness have seperated the two, and have invented a realism that is vulgar, an ideality that is void.

p.11

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

p.14

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

p.21

유혹을 없애는 유일한 방법은, 그것에 굴복하는 것이에요.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. (...) Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

p.25

When i find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

p.30

"...Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic."

p.39

-perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.(...)

There was something fascinating in this son of Love and Death.

p.40,41

모아보니 소설에서 인상적이어서 밑줄쳤던 부분이 죄다 헨리가 하는 말이 태반이다. 그만큼 헨리의 말이 내가 평소에 가졌던 생각과 비슷하고 굉장히 세상을 체계에서 벗어나 보는 경향이 강하다. 젊고 호기심이 많은 도리안이 헨리의 말에 끌리는 것은 당연한 결과였지 않나 싶다.

"I can sympathise with everything, except suffering," said Lord Henry, shrugging his shoulders. "I cannot sympathise with that. It is too ugly, too horrible, too distressing. There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."

p.45

"Can you remember any great error that you committed in your early days, Duchess?" he asked, looking at her across the table.

"A great many, I fear," she cried.

"Then commit them over again," he said, gravely. "To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies."

p.46

"It is only the sacred things that are worth touching, Dorian."

p.58

이 문장 유심히 봐야한다. 이후 도리안이 신체접촉을 시도하는 사람들에게 보이는 반응이 여러번 나온다.

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures.

p.63

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

p.75

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

p.76

sibyl 대사.

"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid of ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us."

p.4

Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich,

p.88

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

p.90

연극과 뮤지컬을 좋아하는 사람으로서 동감한다. 극과 이야기라는 것은 인생의 가장 강렬한 부분들을 옮겨놓은 것이기에 실제 인생보다 훨씬 개연성있고 색채가 있다고 생각한다. 하지만 헨리 경이 현실에 있다면 동족혐오가 생겼을지도 모르겠는걸

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating-people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. Good heavens, my dear boy, don't look so tragic! The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

p.95

I knew nothing but shadows, and I thought them real. You came-oh, my beautiful love!-and you freed my soul from prison. You taught me what reality really is. Tonight, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in which I had always played.

p.97

Sibyl

She put her hand upon his arm, and looked into his eyes. He thrust her back.

"Don't touch me!" he cried.

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

p.99

잔인하고 사실인 말.

But the picture? What was he to say of that? It held the secret of his life, and told his story. It had taught him to love his own beauty. Would it teach him to loathe his own soul? Would he ever look at it again?

p.103

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.

p.108

This takes place right after the tragic night of Sibyl, when Dorian wakes up in guilt and flings himself to write a love letter confessing he was wrong and that she were to be his wife.

You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.

p.110

도리안이 헨리에게 하는 이 말이 아이러니한 것이, 헨리야말로 인생을 온전히 하나로 즐겨야한다고 주장하는 사람이기 때문이다.

Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead? Sibyl! Can she feel, or know, or listen? Oh, Harry, how I loved her once! It seems years ago to me now.

p.112

Sometimes. however, a tragedy that possesses artistic elements of beauty crosses our lives. If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators of the play. Or rather we are both. We watch ourselves, and the mere wonder of the spectacle enthralls us.

p.114

도리안을 위로하기 위해 헨리가 하는말. 극심한 고통에도 종류가 있다. 이 소설에 반복적으로 나오는 그리스식 파멸은 겪는 이로 하여금 그 고통에서 한발짝 물러나 관객이 되어 보게 한다.

But it was to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is itself but a moment.

p.147

When Dorian consumes himself into studying and exploring different fields of art, he thinks of this.

Society, civilised society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.

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To him ,man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

p.160,161

Dorian Gray had been poisoned by a book. There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realise his conception of the beautiful.

p.165

The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society, and on intimate terms with the people they slander.

p.170

This I highly agree with, but also kind of ironic that Wilde was in fact one of the middle class people he now taunts through Dorian's words.

"You know I have been always a staunch friend to you."

"Don't touch me. Finish what you have to say."

A twisted flash of pain shot across the painter's face.

p.173

Noted later, Dorian says don't touch me to Sybil as well, after he has ceased to love her.

The young man was leaning against the mantelshelf, watching him with that strange expression that one sees on the faces of those who are absorbed in a play when some great artist is acting. There was neither real sorrow in it nor real joy. There was simply the passion of the spectator, with perhaps a flicker of triumph in his eyes.

p.177

Revealing the painting to Basil. See here, D is detaching himself from the pain and is now in a state of a spectator of his own life.

"Ah, what is impossible?" murmured the young man, going over to the window, and leaning his forehead against the cold, mist-stained glass.

"You told me you had destroyed it."

"I was wrong. It has destroyed me."

p.177

끔찍히도 아름다운 장면. 어둡고 먼지가 쌓인 방, 흉측하게 변한 그림 앞에서 아름다운 소년이 창가에 이마를 기대는 모습이 떠올랐다.

"This is the face of a satyr."

"It is the face of my soul."

"Christ! what a thing I must have worshipped! It has the eyes of a devil."

"Each of us has Heaven and Hell in him, Basil," cried Dorian, with a wild gesture of despair.

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There was no answer, but he could hear the young man sobbing at the window. "Pray, Dorian, pray," he murmured. "What is it that one was taught to say in one's boyhood? 'Lead us not into temptation. Forgive us our sins. Wash away our iniquities.'

p.178

The mad passions of a hunted animal stirred within him, and he loathed the man who was seated at the table, more than in his whole life he had ever loathed anything.

p.179

He could hear nothing but the drip, drip on the threadbare carpet. He opened the door and went out on the landing. The house was absolutely quiet. No one was about. For a few seconds he stood bending over the balustrade, and peering down into the black seething well of darkness.

p.180

The darkness? More like his soul, perhaps. I detest Dorian but also pity him because I have similar thoughts as Henry and know how easy it is to be influenced by those synical words.

"Don't speak about those days, Dorian: they are dead."

"The dead linger sometimes. The man upstairs will not go away. He is sitting at the table with bowed head and outstreched arms."

p.192

While D and his former intimate partner Alan Campell talk, the gothic horror motif stands out greatly.

"Decay fascinates me more."

"What of Art?" she asked.

"It is a malady"

"Love?"

"An illusion."

p.222

헨리와 사촌 글래디스와 대화. malady 의 뜻은 병. disease 와 같은 맥락으로 보면 된다. 예술에 빠져들어 때로는 앓는 것이 병처럼 보이기도 한다는 점에서 동의. 이 대화에서도 보이지만 헨리는 굉장히 독특하게 세상을 본다. 그를 비관적이라고 질타하면서도 서서히 소설이 진행되면서 그의 사상에 빠져들게 되고 독자들은 도리안처럼 헨리가 등장하는 것을 고대하게 된다.

The consciousness of being hunted, snared, tracked down, had begun to dominate him If the tapestry did but tremble in the wind, he shook. The dead leaves that were blown against the leaded panes seemed to him like his own wasted resolutions and wild regrets.

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Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination.

p.227

제임스 베인이 자신을 죽일 것을 두려워하며 밤을 지새는 도리안. 이 페이지 전체가 아름답다. 검은 밤, 어두운 상상에 쫓겨 잠을 이루지 못하고 상상에 상상을 더하는 장면이 생생하게 느껴져서 좋다.

"I wish I could love," cried Dorian Gray, with a deep note of pathos in his voice. "But I seem to have lost the passon, and forgotten the desire. I am too much concentrated on myself. My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget. It was silly of me to come down here at all."

p.233

pathos 는 sadness, sorrow

As the glass door closed behind Dorian, Lord Henry turned and looked at the Duchess with his slumberous eyes. "Are you very much in love with him?" he asked.

She did not answer for some time, but stood gazing at the landscape. "I wish I knew," she said at last.

He shook his head. "Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful."

p.234

이 소설의 전체에서 헨리가 도리안의 인생이 아닌 다른 이들에게 사랑에 대해 말하는 부분이 드물다. 그런데 하필 이 부분에서 헨리가 말하는 것이 중요하게 느껴졌다. 정말 헨리가 도리안에게 느꼈던 감정이 흥미였을까? fascinated 와 love 는 다르듯, 헨리는 한번도 도리안을 like 이상으로 표현하지 않는다. 하지만 여기서 귀부인에게 묻는 질문이 마치 자기 자신에게 하는 것과 같고 모르는 것이 낫다고 하는 것도 뭔가 스스로에게 하는 말이라 느꼈다.

They have had my own divorce-case, and Alan Campbell's suicide.

p.240

Alan 의 자살 소식에.. 내가 충격받았다. 도리안과 앨런 사이에 대체 무슨 일이 있었길래.. 어떤 영향을 받았길래.. 이것때문에 도리안을 용서할 수 없다. 헨리 이혼소식은 걍 당연히 느껴지고, 짧은 구간임에도 A가 좋았어서

"'what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose'-how does the quotation run?-'his own soul'?"

p.244

이걸 헨리가 도리안에게 물어보다니.

There are moemnts when the odour of lilas blanc passes suddenly across me, and I have to live the strangest month of my life over again.

p.246

lilas blanc 는 white lily의 불어이다... 당연하다.. high society 의 you must use elegant french quotations yaddayadda

Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

p.248

이 소설의 중심을 관통하는 문장, 하지만 앞선 모든 내용을 단번에 부정해버리는 문장이다. 헨리가 하는 말이지만 결국 작가가 하고싶은 말이다. 도리안의 최후를 암시하는, 또 그의 죄는 온전히 그의 책임이라 도장찍는 부분.

Once it had given him pleasure to watch it changing and growing old. Of late he felt no such pleasure. It had kept him awake at night. When he had been away, he had been filled with terror lest other eyes should look upon it. It had brought melacholy across his passions. Its mere memory had marred many moments of joy. It had been like conscience to him. Yes, it had been conscience. He would destroy it.

p.253

나는 이 소설을 읽으며 굳이 도리안이 죽어서 끝나야 했을까 의문을 가졌다. 그가 죽을만큼 많은 죄를 저지른 이임은 분명하나, 도리안이 죽음으로서 소설이 갑작스럽게 도덕적인 교훈을 주며 끝나버려 허무한 느낌을 주기 때문이다. 하지만 다시 생각해보니 이 이상의 알맞은 엔딩이 없는것 같다. 자신의 영혼에, 또 자신의 아름다움을 지키느라 미쳐버린 사람이 결국 자신의 영혼마저 부정하고 스스로를 죽인 결말, 이보다 더 고딕스럽고 완벽한 결말이 어디있겠는가.

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도리안은 나르시소스처럼 자신을 들여다보지만, 그가 보는 것은 그리스 신화의 그 소년이 보았던 자신의 아름다운 모습이 아니라 그림에 그려진 날로 갈수록 추악해지는 영혼이다. 자신의 타락을 제3자의 눈으로 보는, 소설을 관통하는 주제 '관객'처럼. 또 도리안이 자신을 중요하게 여기면서 다른 이들이 자신을 만질때 피하는 점도 눈여겨볼만 하다.

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그런데 도리안이 신체접촉을 피하는 데에는 단순히 자기애만 있는 것은 아닌것 같다. 도리안의 어머니는 높은 귀족이지만 아버지는 중산층이었기에 도리안의 출생은 축복을 받지 못했고 그가 성인이 되어 바질과 만나기 전까지 그의 할아버지가 도리안을 싫어했다는 언급이 나오기 때문이다. 만약 이 시기에 도리안이 학대를 받았다면 책 내내 나오는 그의 손가락을 매만지고 입술을 물어뜯는 행동이 이해가 된다. 고립되었던 어린시절 탓에 헨리의 '자신의 아름다움을 탐닉하라'는 말에 더욱 매력을 느꼈을지도 모른다.

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나는 이 소설을 매우 좋아한다. 와일드의 몇 안되는 장편소설이기도 하고 시인이었던 그의 유려한 문체가 돋보이기 때문이다. 또한 소설에서는 당대 사회에서 터부시 되었던 귀족들의 타락, 중산층의 위선, 동성애 등의 주제를 다룬다. 무엇보다 소설을 읽을수록 헨리라는 인물 자체에 호기심을 갖게 되고 아무것도 알려지지 않은 그들의 과거가 궁금해진다. 후반부의 스산하고 안개 찬 런던의 습한 공기가 느껴지는 전개 또한.

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+. 내가 정말 좋아했던 캐릭터 Alan.. 과학과 음악을 좋아하는 청년... 이 사람을 꼭 그렇게.. 했어여만 했나...

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추가조사

Tanagra Figurine 장식품

The Tanagra figurines were a mold-cast type of Greek terracotta figurines produced from the later fourth century BC, named after the Boeotian town of Tanagra, where many were excavated and which has given its name to the whole class.

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Sevros China 장식품 아마 sevres 회사 도자기를 말하는듯

The Manufacture nationale de Sèvres is one of the principal European porcelain factories. It is located in Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine, France. It is the continuation of Vincennes porcelain, founded in 1740, which moved to Sèvres in 1756.

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onyx 황색 대리석(뜻은 이건데 걍 흑색 대리석임 인테리어에 자주 쓰이는)

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ennui

a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement:

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misanthrope

a person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society: 와 이거 나다..

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댄디이즘, 로맨티즘 19세기 유행했던~ 특히 오스카와일트같은 탐미주의자는 당연히..

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hedonism 쾌락주의 향락주의

the ethical theory that pleasure (in the sense of the satisfaction of desires) is the highest good and proper aim of human life.

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damask 넹 그 고전소설에 많이 나오는 다마스크 천 양모 새틴 등등으로 만든 패턴 찍힌 천

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satyricon: satyrical novel

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Blue Book

Alan을 부를때 도리안이 찾는 책. 이용자를 위한 가이드북으로 여기서는 전화가계부였을것 아마도?

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Astrakhan coat

러시아 아스트라칸 지역 명칭. 러시아식 모던하고 깃이 달린 코트. 내 최애 ...Alan Campbell 이 입고 나온다... 그런데... 몇페이지도 등장 안함...