행복 파수꾼

셰익스피어의 ‘로미오와 줄리엣’은 음악 분야에 있어서 벨리니(Vincenzo Bellini)와 구노(Charles Gounod)가 오페라로, 차이콥스키(Pyotr Tchaikovsky)나 베를리오즈(Louis Hector Berlioz)가 오케스트라 작품으로 작곡하는 등 음악화 작업이 지속되어 왔다. 그러나 무용 분야에서만큼 19세기에는 그다지 많..

So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, "Jacob! Jacob!" "Here I am," he replied. "I am God, the God of your father," he said. "Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. I will go down to Egypt wi..

덴마크 부호의 딸 카렌은 아프리카 케냐에 있는 약혼자인 블릭센 남작과 결혼하기 위해 아프리카로 온다. 이때만 해도 그녀는 아프리카에 대해 막연한 동경을 가지고 있었다. 하지만 그 후에 닥친 현실은 그렇게 녹록하지 않다. 남편과 결혼 후, 어떻게든 커피 농장을 성공적으로 운영해..

Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, "Have everyone leave my presence!" So there was no one with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers. And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh's household heard about it. Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still living?" But his brothers..

김옥균과 함께 19세기 말 개화운동의 대명사이기도 한 박영효(朴泳孝, 1861~1939)는 그 짧지 않은 인생의 부침을 통해 인간의 신념과 권력욕의 불행한 조우를 극명하고 불편하게 보여주는 인물이다. 젊은 시절 그는 나라의 앞날을 걱정하는 의욕적이고 패기에 찬 우국 청년이었지만, 시대의 ..

Now Joseph gave these instructions to the steward of his house: "Fill the men's sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each man's silver in the mouth of his sack. Then put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one's sack, along with the silver for his grain." And he did as Joseph said. As morning dawned, the men were sent on their way with their donk..

Now the famine was still severe in the land. So when they had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Go back and buy us a little more food." But Judah said to him, "The man warned us solemnly, 'You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.' If you will send our brother along with us, we will go down and buy food for you. ..

When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why do you just keep looking at each other?" He continued, "I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die." Then ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with the others, be..

When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile, when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds. After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank. And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke ..

Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt. Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined. The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he attended them. Afte..