예언자 / The Prophet (영문판, 삽화 포함)

칼릴 지브란 지음

아이보리잉크 2025년 05월 12일 출간

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이 책은 현자 알 무스타파가 12년간의 유배를 마치고 고향으로 돌아가는 길에, 사람들이 던지는 삶의 다양한 질문에 대한 그의 통찰력 있는 답변을 담고 있다. 사랑, 결혼, 아이, 일, 슬픔, 기쁨 등 인간 존재의 근원적인 주제들을 다루는 그의 시적인 언어와 아름다운 삽화는 시대를 초월하여 깊은 영감을 선사한다. 단순하면서도 심오한 메시지는 독자들에게 삶의 의미를 되돌아보게 하고, 내면의 평화를 찾도록 이끌어 준다.

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Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.
And in the twelfth year, on the seventh day of Ielool, the month of reaping, he climbed the hill without the city walls and looked seaward; and he beheld his ship coming with the mist.
Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the sea. And he closed his eyes and prayed in the silences of his soul.
But as he descended the hill, a sadness came upon him, and he thought in his heart:
How shall I go in peace and without sorrow? Nay, not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city. Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?
Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache.
It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.
Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst.
Yet I cannot tarry longer.
The sea that calls all things unto her calls me, and I must embark.
For to stay, though the hours burn in the night, is to freeze and crystallize and be bound in a mould.
Fain would I take with me all that is here. But how shall I?
A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether.
And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.
Now when he reached the foot of the hill, he turned again towards the sea, and he saw his ship approaching the harbour, and upon her prow the mariners, the men of his own land.
And his soul cried out to them, and he said:
Sons of my ancient mother, you riders of the tides,
How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
Ready am I to go, and my eagerness with sails full set awaits the wind.
Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another loving look cast backward,
And then I shall stand among you, a seafarer among seafarers. And you, vast sea, sleepless mother,
Who alone are peace and freedom to the river and the stream,
Only another winding will this stream make, only another murmur in this glade,
And then shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean.

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저자(글) 칼릴 지브란

칼릴 지브란 (Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931)은 레바논 출신의 시인이자 철학가, 화가이다. 아랍 문학과 서양 문학의 영향을 받아 독창적인 작품 세계를 구축했으며, 특히 그의 대표작 '예언자'는 전 세계적으로 사랑받는 스테디셀러이다.