〈 영어로 읽는 고전 _ 버나드 쇼의 캐셜 바이런의 직업〉
캐셜 바이런의 직업(Cashel Byron's Profession)은 조지 버나드 쇼(George Bernard Shaw)의 네 번째 소설이다. 이 소설은 1882년에 쓰여졌으나 여러 출판사로부터 거절을 받은 후 사회주의 잡지에 연재되었습니다. 이 소설은 나중에 영국과 미국에서 책으로 출판되었습니다. Shaw는 경력 초기에 다섯 권의 소설을 썼고 그 후 정치, 드라마 비평, 그리고 결국 연극 글쓰기를 추구하기 위해 그 소설들을 버렸습니다. 이 소설을 대략적으로 바탕으로 한 단편 희곡 Admirable Bashville(1901)은 이 소설이 미국에서 예상치 못한 성공을 거둔 후 미국 저작권을 보호하기 위해 쓰여졌습니다.
〈 Classics to read in English _ Cashel Byron’s Profession by Bernard Shaw 〉
Cashel Byron's Profession is George Bernard Shaw's fourth novel. The novel was written in 1882 and after rejection by several publishers it was published in serialized form in a socialist magazine. The novel was later published as a book in England and the United States. Shaw wrote five novels early in his career and then abandoned them to pursue politics, drama criticism and eventually play writing. The Admirable Bashville (1901), a short play based loosely on this novel, was written to protect American copyrights after the novel became unexpectedly successful in the United States.
Summary
The novel follows Cashel Byron, a world champion prizefighter, as he tries to woo wealthy aristocrat Lydia Carew without revealing his illegal profession.
Lydia is portrayed as a moral and intelligent woman (although "priggish" according to Shaw) and is constantly contrasted with the "ruffian" Cashel. Lydia was advised by her recently deceased father to find a husband with a profession, as opposed to an idle gentleman or an art critic like her father.
Cashel’s childhood ends when he runs away from school to Australia and becomes apprentice to an ex-world champion boxer. When Cashel goes to England to secure his world title in that country he meets Lydia at her country manor. After much miscommunication and drawing room comedy, Cashel gives up boxing and succeeds in marrying Lydia. As in his postscript to "Pygmalion" (1912), in which he describes Eliza Doolittle's future life, Shaw chose to portray the Byron marriage in a realistic manner and narrates how Lydia comes to regard Cashel as "one of the children".
