Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days

Arnold Bennett 지음

수아르 2025년 11월 03일 출간

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The novel follows the reclusive and introverted painter Priam Farll, who has gained immense fame and wealth yet remains awkward and anxious in everyday life. Living in a desolate South Kensington house in a puce dressing-gown, he embodies isolation and detachment from the world, reflecting the duality of an artist’s public glory and private emptiness. Although celebrated for his notorious portrait of a policeman, Farll inwardly depends on his valet, Henry Leek, and feels lost in meaning. Through the gap between social success and personal helplessness, the story unfolds as a humorous yet poignant exploration of identity and selfhood. It captures humanity’s pretense, loneliness, and the yearning to rediscover one’s true self.

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Chapter I. THE PUCE DRESSING-GOWN
Riches and Renown
The Dreadful Secret
Cure for Shyness
Master and Servant
A Month's Wages
Chapter II. A PAIL
Tea
Alice Challice
No Gratuities
Chapter III. THE PHOTOGRAPH
The Nest
Fame
The Ruling Classes
Chapter IV. A SCOOP
Cowardice
In the Valhalla
A New Hat
Chapter V. ALICE ON HOTELS
Difficulty of Truth-telling
Results of Rain
Chapter VI. A PUTNEY MORNING
The Simple Joy of Life
Collapse of the Putney System
Chapter VII. THE CONFESSION
Tears
A Patron of the Arts
Chapter VIII. AN INVASION
A Departure
In the Bath
Chapter IX. A GLOSSY MALE
A Connoisseur
Parfitts' Galleries
The Club
Chapter X. THE SECRET
Money-getting
A Visit to the Tailors'
Alice on the Situation
Chapter XI. AN ESCAPE
The Nation's Curiosity
Mention of Two Moles
Priam's Refusal
Chapter XII. ALICE'S PERFORMANCES
The Public Captious
New Evidence
Thoughts on Justice
The Will to Live
On Board

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저자(글) Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett, born in 1867 in Staffordshire, England, was a novelist renowned for his realistic depictions of industrial towns and middle-class life He is especially known for the “Five Towns” series, where he explored human ambition, conflict, and social constraints within the pottery district His use of realism and psychological detail conveyed the weight of everyday life and the intricacies of social structures Notable works such as Clayhanger and The Old Wives’ Tale deeply examined individual existence amid societal changes Though he died in 1931, his works remain significant literary resources for understanding early 20th-century British society.