The Smile
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Many Americans are familiar with The Little Prince, a wonderful book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. This is a whimsical and fabulous book and works as a children`s story as well as a thought-provoking adult fable. Far fewer are aware of Saint-Exupery`s other writings, novels and short stories.
많은 미국인들이 안토니?드 생텍쥐페리의 멋진 책,?`어린왕자`와 친숙하다. 아이들의 동화로, 생각하게 만드는 어른들의 동화로 별나고 신화적인 책이며 작품이다. 생텍쥐페리의 다른 작품이나 소설, 단편은 거의 알려져있지 않다.Saint-Exupery was a fighter pilot who fought against the Nazis and was killed in action. Before World War II, he fought in the Spanish Civil War against the fascists. He wrote a fascinating story based on that experience entitled The Smile (Le Sourire). It is this story which I`d like to share with you now. It isn`t clear whether or not he meant this to be autobiographical or fiction. I choose to believe it to be the former.생텍쥐페리는 나치에 저항해 싸운 비행기 조종사였으며 전쟁에서 죽었다. 2차대전 전에?그는 파시스트들을 대상으로 한 스페인 시민 전쟁에서 싸웠다. 그는 그 경험에 기초하여 The Smile이라 제목붙인?매력적인 이야기를 썼다. 그것이 내가 당신…(생략)
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ot make eye contact with me. After all, one does not make eye contact with a thing, a corpse. I called out to him `Have you got a light, por favor?` He looked at me, shrugged and came over to light my cigarette.
난 쇠창살 사이로 내 교도관을 보았다. 그는 나와 눈도 마주치려 하지않았다. 결국, 아무도 시체가 될 사람하고는 눈을 마주치지 않았다. 나는 그들을 향해 `혹시 불이 있으세요?`라고 외쳤고 그는 나를 보더니, 어깨를 으쓱하며 다가와 내 담배에 불을 붙여줬다.
"As he came close and lit the match, his eyes inadvertently locked with mine. At that moment, I smiled. I don`t know why I did that. Perhaps it was nervousness, perhaps it was because, when you get very close, one to another, it is very hard not to smile. In any case, I smiled. In that instant, it was as though a spark jumped across the gap between our two hearts, our two human souls. I know he didn`t want to, but my smile leaped through the bars and generated a smile on his lips, too. He lit my cigarette but stayed near, looking at me directly in the eyes and continuing to smile.
그가 가까이 다가와 성냥을 태웠을 때, 그의 눈이 무심코 내것과 마주쳤다. 그 때 난 미소지었