영어로 읽는 고전 _ 싱클레어 루이스의 애로 스미스
싱클레어 루이스의 “애로스미스”는 1925년에 출간된 소설이다. 이 작품은 미국 중서부 소도시 출신의 과학적 사고를 지닌 청년 마틴 애로스미스가 의과대학과 연구 생활을 거쳐 뉴욕의 엘리트 과학계에 이르기까지 겪는 파란만장한 여정을 그린다. 그 과정에서 그는 사랑의 갈등, 윤리적 딜레마, 그리고 서로 충돌하는 야망과 마주하게 된다. 전염병이 창궐하여 그의 신념이 시험대에 오를 때, 애로스미스는 엄격한 과학적 방법론과 생명을 구하는 일 사이에서 선택을 내려야 하며, 이상주의와 야망, 그리고 의료 현장의 냉혹한 현실 사이의 긴장과 정면으로 부딪치게 된다.
Classics Read in English _ Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
Published in 1925, Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith traces the turbulent life of Martin Arrowsmith, a sharp-minded young man raised in a small Midwestern town who is drawn to the world of science. From his years in medical school to his research career and eventual entry into New York's prestigious scientific circles, Martin contends with the pull of love, the weight of moral choices, and ambitions that often work against one another. The novel reaches its crisis when an epidemic erupts, forcing him to weigh the demands of disciplined scientific research against the urgent need to save human lives. In doing so, the story lays bare the enduring conflict between idealism, personal ambition, and the harsh practicalities of medicine.
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The driver of the wagon swaying through forest and swamp of the Ohio wilderness was a ragged girl of fourteen. Her mother they had buried near the Monongahela—the girl herself had heaped with torn sods the grave beside the river of the beautiful name. Her father lay shrinking with fever on the floor of the wagon-box, and about him played her brothers and sisters, dirty brats, tattered brats, hilarious brats.
She halted at the fork in the grassy road, and the sick man quavered, “Emmy, ye better turn down towards Cincinnati. If we could find your Uncle Ed, I guess he’d take us in.”
“Nobody ain’t going to take us in,” she said. “We’re going on jus’ long as we can. Going West! They’s a whole lot of new things I aim to be seeing!”
