드라큘라 / Dracula (영문판)

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'드라큘라(Dracula)'는 영국의 작가 브램 스토커가 1897년에 출간한 고전 공포 소설입니다. 이 이야기는 흡혈귀 드라큘라 백작이 영국을 방문하여 자신의 저주를 퍼뜨리고자 하는 과정을 긴장감 넘치는 서사로 그려냅니다. 일기, 편지, 신문 기사 등의 다양한 형식을 활용하여 여러 등장인물의 시점에서 이야기가 전개되어, 독자에게 몰입감과 신선한 재미를 선사합니다. 흡혈귀 신화의 대표적인 작품으로서 현대 대중문화에 큰 영향을 끼쳤으며, 선과 악, 미지의 공포, 인간의 본성 등 다양한 주제를 담고 있습니다. 영문판으로 읽을 경우, 원문의 분위기와 심리묘사를 온전히 경험할 수 있고, 영어 독해 및 어휘력 향상에도 도움을 받을 수 있습니다.

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3 May. Bistritz.—Left Munich at 8:35 , on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible. The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.
We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh. Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty. (Mem., get recipe for Mina.) I asked the waiter, and he said it was called "paprika hendl," and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians. I found my smattering of German very useful here; indeed, I don’t know how I should be able to get on without it.
Having had some time at my disposal when in London, I had visited the British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the library regarding Transylvania; it had struck me that some foreknowledge of the country could hardly fail to have some importance in dealing with a nobleman of that country. I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe. I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordnance Survey maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina.
In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys in the East and North. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns. This may be so, for when the Magyars conquered the country in the eleventh century they found the Huns settled in it. I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. (Mem., I must ask the Count all about them.)
I did not sleep well, though my bed was comfortable enough, for I had all sorts of queer dreams. There was a dog howling all night under my window, which may have had something to do with it; or it may have been the paprika, for I had to drink up all the water in my carafe, and was still thirsty. Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my door, so I guess I must have been sleeping soundly then. I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was "mamaliga," and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call "impletata." (Mem., get recipe for this also.) I had to hurry breakfast, for the train started a little before eight, or rather it ought to have done so, for after rushing to the station at 7:30 I had to sit in the carriage for more than an hour before we began to move. It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China?

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브램 스토커(Bram Stoker, 1847~1912)는 아일랜드 출신의 소설가이자 극장경영자입니다. 젊은 시절부터 문학에 관심이 많았으며, 런던에서 극장 매니저로 일하는 동안 다채로운 인물들과 교류하며 창의력을 키웠습니다. 그의 대표작 '드라큘라'는 전 세계적으로 큰 성공을 거두었으며, 이후 영화, 연극, 만화 등 다양한 문화 콘텐츠로 재창조되어 오늘날까지도 많은 사랑을 받고 있습니다. 브램 스토커는 괴기문학의 거장으로 평가받으며, 독창적인 상상력과 깊이 있는 심리묘사로 문학사에 큰 족적을 남겼습니다.