Amos Oz 의 소설 "Judas"에서

 

도서관에서 우연히 눈에 띄어 빌려온 Amos Oz 의 소설

"Judas" 를 꽤나 재미있게 읽었다. Amos Oz 는, 그의 산문집

"Dear Zealots" (2017, 영역판 2018) 를 읽고서

좋아하게 된 이스라엘 작가이다.

 

 

 

Amos Oz, "Judas" (Hebrew 판 2014, Nicholas de Lange 영역판 2016)

 

(서평과  소설의 내용에 대해서는, 예를 들면,

The New York Times Book Review: Amos Oz's New Novel.)

 

 

"Abravanel was never impressed by nationalism. At all. At

anywhere. He was totally unimpressed by a world devided

into hundreds of nation-states, like rows and rows of

separate cages in a zoo." (p 184)

 

The gable, too, was roofed with fades tiles. He suddenly wanted very much to live in that attic, to curl up inside it with a pile of books, a bottle of red wine, a stove, a quilt, a record player and some records, and not go outside for lectures, debates, or love affairs. (p15)
 Is it conceivable that natural selection is at work here? ere all thecats that were not capable of performing this complex hygienicoperation wiped off the faces of the earth without raising progeny,and only the descendants of the cats that buried their droppingssucceeded in being fruitful and multiplying? (p37) "We have spoken enough for today, and now I want to read Gogol quietly. I reread Gogol every two or three years. He knew almost everything there is to know about our nature. And he fellabout laughing. But don't you read him. No, you should read Tolstoy. He suits you much better.... There is no one like Tolstoy for dreamers." (p 137) 

"It was Ben-Gurion who was the dreamer, not Abravanel.

Ben-Gurion and the herd who followed him like the Pied Piperof Hamelin. To the slaughter. To violent expulsion. To eternalhatred between the two communities." (p184) "She is more extreme than he was. She told me oncethat the very presence of the Jews in the land of Israelis based on injustice." (p206) His eyes caressed her with a submissive gentleness thatlightly touched her heart. (p 234) Then she ... gave him a glass of tea and a slice of
bread of cheese. (p 237) Surely no fig tree gives fruit or can give fruit before thePassover.... Why did he curse the tree? How had the fig tree wronged him? (p 270) In an instant Shmuel was swept by a wave of warmhappiness. The sight of the empty mountains, the young forests, and the wide sky made him feel as if he werewaking up at last from a hibernation that had goneon for too long. (p 300)