Leo Tolstoy's Resurrection ⑦

Everybody lived for himself alone, for his pleasure, and all the talk about God and righteousness was deception.
19-13-84
The quest to redeem his past sin will no more lead to salvation than Kiesewetter's belief in Christ's blood shed once in the past and for all could be an adequate doctrine of redemption.(Ⅱ.ⅹⅶ). Nekhlyudov thus discovers at this climactic moment Tolstoy's theology of salvation, clarified while he was writing this novel, a doctrine grounded not in the past events, but in the present moment: 'The time is right now, this minute, the person is the one with whom you are dealing with right now, and the task is to save your soul, i.e. to do the task of love'. Once Nekhlyudov learns this Tolstoyan truth, he is free to leave his past and move on. Part Two ends, and the journey to Siberia and a 'new life' begins.
As in the War and Peace and Anne Karenina, in Resurrection the hero's psychological development moves through a series of revelatory moments followed by periods of correction and clarification. What serves to correct and clarify Nekhlyudov's moments of resurrection is his encounter with the realities of life, often his meetings with Maslova. The resolve and subsequent experience of 'peace' and 'joy' recorded in his diary after the first moment of resurrection, for example, are quickly dispelled in the first 'interview' with Maslova when, learning that she does not share his guilt over the past, he pronounces her a 'dead woman'. Indeed for Maslova the significant event is not the scene of the coerced consummation, but a night some months later when Nekhlyudov passed through without stopping by and she, now pregnant, rushes to find him at the railway station, only to see his car pull away from her forever.

A. 어휘
shed-shed-shed (피를)흘리다. adequate 충분한. doctrine 교리, 원리.
redemption 贖罪(속죄). theology 신학. salvation 구원. clarify 명백히 밝히다.
ground-grounded-grounded 세우다, 기초를 두다. cf. grind-ground-ground 빻다.
a doctrine not grounded in the past events 과거의 일에 바탕을 두지 않는 敎理(교리).
i.e. 즉(=that is). move on 계속 전진하다. correction 矯正(교정), 修正(수정).
clarification 淨化(정화), 해명, 명확화. encounter 마주침, 邂逅(해후).
subsequent 다음의, 그 후의. dispel 쫓아 버리다, 떨쳐버리다. share 나누어 가지다.
significant 중요한, 뜻이 있는. coerce 강요하다.
consummation 성취, 마무리, 극치, 신방에 듦으로써 결혼(사랑)을 마무리하는 것.
coerced consummation 강요에 의해서 사랑의 절정에 이르는 것 (정조상실).
passed through (기차를 타고) 통과하다. stop by 들르다. pregnant 임신한.

B. 구문
-The quest to redeem . . . doctrine of redemption.
cf. A whale is no more a fish than a horse is.→A가 B가 아닌 것은 C가 B가 아닌 것과 같다. 고래가 물고기가 아닌 것은 말이 물고기가 아닌 것과 같다.(고래는 말처럼 물고기가 아니다.)
cf. Christ's blood shed once...for all→Christ's blood which was shed once...for all
[과거의 죄를 속죄하려는 추구가 구원으로 이끌지 못하는 것은 과거에 인류 모두를 위해 흘린 예수의 피에 대한 Kiesewetter의 믿음이 속죄를 위한 충분한 교리가 될 수 없는 것과 같다.(과거에 흘린 예수의 피가 우리를 구원할 수 없듯이 과거의 죄를 속죄하려는 시도는 구원에 이를 수 없다).]
-clarified→which was clarified.
-What serves to correct and clarify . . . meetings with Maslova.
[Nekhlyudov의 부활의 순간을 교정하고 정화시키는 데 기여하는 것은 삶의 현실 과 마주치는 것이며 Maslova와 종종 만나는 것이다.]
-when, learning that she . . . her a 'dead woman'.
cf. learning→as (when) he learns
[그녀가 그의 과거의 죄를 공감하지 않는다는 것을 알고 그가 그녀를 죽은 여인으로 단정할 때에]
-only to see →but sees

19-14-85
He whom she had loved and who had loved her--yes, she knew that--had thrown her away after having enjoyed her; had abused her love. Yet he was the best of all the people she knew . . . From that day the change which brought her where she now was began to operate in her soul. Beginning from that dreadful night she ceased to believe in God and in goodness.

The pain of this abandonment is so great that Maslova cannot even allow herself to remember that dreadful night which brought her to her present psychological state:

Everybody lived for himself alone, for his pleasure, and all the talk about God and righteousness was deception. And if sometimes doubts arouse in her mind, and she wondered why everything was so badly arranged in the world that all hurt each other and made everyone suffer, she thought it best not to dwell on it; and if she felt melancholy she could smoke or drink, or, best of all, have a love affair with some man, and it would pass.

Maslova thus lives in a characteristic Tolstoyan state of forgetting. She suppresses the memory of her best self and the ideal relationship of love she knows from her past, and with them the voice of conscience. To accomplish this she uses narcotics and sex to dull her 'reasonable consciousness' . . . Maslova needs her cynical world-view grounded in a loss of faith and marked by her estranged experience of the divine liturgy, in order to justify to herself her present reality and to hide from herself her past pain. The present persona of 'Love' masks the tormented reality of the abandoned Katusha, and Nekhlyudov's resolve to marry 'Love' will not redeem his sin against this abandoned Katusha.

A. 어휘
abuse 남용하다, 악용하다, 학대하다. cease 끝내다, 그만 두다.
abandonment 自暴自棄(자포자기), 放棄(방기). dreadful 무서운.
psychological state 심리상태. righteousness 正義(정의), 공정. deception 속임.
arise-arose-arisen 발생하다, 일어나다. dwell on ...을 곰곰 생각하다.
characteristic 특유의, 독특한. suppress 억압하다. conscience 양심. narcotics 마약.
dull 무디게 하다. reasonable consciousness 합리적(온당한) 의식.
loss of faith 신앙의 상실. estrange 疎遠(소원)해지다, 멀어지다.
liturgy 예배식, 기도서. divine liturgy 神聖(신성)한 예배. justify 정당화하다.
'Love' =Katusha.
the present persona of 'Love' 이라고 자칭하는 눈앞에 있는 인물.
torment 고문하다. mask 가리다, 숨기다, 가면을 씌우다.
the tormented reality of the abandoned Katusha 버림받은 카츄사의 고통스러운 현실.

B. 구문
-From that day . . . operate in her soul.
[ 바로 그 날부터 지금 그녀가 현재 처한 곳까지 그녀를 몰아 부친 그 변화는 그녀의 영혼 속에서 작동하기 시작하였다.]
-And if sometimes doubts arouse . . . not to dwell on it.
[ 그리고 만약 때때로 그녀의 마음 속에 (자신의 생각에 대한)의심이 생긴다면, 그리고 왜 세상의 모든 일이 너무나 잘 못 배열되어서 모든 사람들이 서로에게 상처를 내고 서로를 고통스럽게 하는지가 궁금할 때는 이런 문제에 대해서는 더 이상 곰곰 생각을 하지 않는 것이 최선이라고 생각하였다.]
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