[오늘의 한문장] 죽음의 집 The House of the Dead

The latter come straight from the capitals, temped by the high pay, the extra allowance for traveling expenses, and by hopes not leaa seductive for the future. Those who know how to resolve the problem of life remain almost always in Siberia; the abundant and richly-flavoured fruit which they gather there recompenses them amply for what they lose.

- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 죽음의 집 The House of the Dead

Their manners are antique, solid and unchanged by time. The officials who form , and with reason, the nobility in Siberia, either belong to the country, deeply-rooted Siberians, or they have arrived there from Russia.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 죽음의 집 The House of the Dead

In most cases they are abundantly provided with police-master, assessors, and other inferior officials. If it is cold in Siberia, the great advantages of the Government service compensate for it.The inhabitants are simple people, without liberal ideas.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 죽음의 집 The House of the Dead

The House of the Dead (Prison Life in Siberia)

By
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

PART 1.

CHAPTER I. TEN YEARS A CINVICT

In the midst of the steppes, of the mountains, of the impenetrable forest of the desert region of Siberia, one meets from time to time with little towns of a thousand or two inhabitants, built entirely of woods, very ugly, with two churches---one in the centre of the town, the other in the cemetery--in a word, towns which bear much more resemblance to a good-sized village in the suburbs of Moscow than to a town properly so called.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 죽음의 집 The House of the Dead

■ 저자 소개

표도르 도스토옙스키(1821년~1881년)는 러시아 문학의 거장으로 20세기 소설에 지대한 영향을 끼쳤습니다. 그는 신흥 자본주의 밑에서 신음하는 시민의 대변자인 동시에 슬라브주의자였습니다. 그의 작품은 철학•종교•사회 문제 등 각 방면에 걸쳐 커다란 영향을 끼쳤습니다.
- P3