Will you be there? by Guillaume Musso _ discussion questions

Will You Be There? (Paperback) 외국도서 저자 : 기욤 뮈소(Guillaume Musso),Musso, Guillaume/ Holoch, George (TRN) 출판 : Hodder & Stoughton 2009.05.01 상세보기

당신, 거기 있어 줄래요? 국내도서 저자 : 기욤 뮈소(Guillaume Musso) / 전미연역 출판 : 밝은세상 2007.04.20 상세보기

link : 2015/07/19 - [독서] - 기욤 뮈소의 구해줘

프랑스 작가의 책을 영어로 번역한 Will You Be there?을 읽었다. 연금술사를 읽을 때도 느낀 거지만 번역된 책이 읽기가 더 쉽다. 간결하게 번역해서 의미를 전달하려고 하나보다. 한국어로 읽을 때도 술술 읽히는 책이라는 느낌이었는데, 영어로도 비슷하다. (물론 나는 느리다.) 쉬운 편의 원서다. 또 기욤 뮈소의 필체가 워낙 영상을 보는 듯해서 더 쉽게 읽을 수 있는 듯하다.

그런데 영어로 읽으면 뭐랄까 감정 전달이 100% 안 된다. 의미를 이해하느라 바빠서 감정을 쏟을 여유가 없는 것 같다. 다시 읽어봐도 분명 재미있는 책이었으나, 처음 읽을 때와 달리 논리적 오류가 아주 많다는 생각을 하면서 봤다. 시간 여행을 해서 과거를 바꾼다 한들 과연 내가 사는 미래가 바뀌는 게 맞는 것인지, 평행우주가 생겨야 하는 것은 아닌지 모순이 많다는 생각이 들었다.

또 일리나가 30년이 지나도 엘리엇을 여전히 사랑하고 있었다는 점이라던가, 시간 여행이 진실이란 걸 받아들이는 점이라던가, 30살의 엘리엇이 나이를 먹고 60세가 되었을 때 그의 책장에 알약 하나가 남아있었다던가 뭔가 어딘가 이상하다. 독자를 설득하기 위한 논리적 근거가 좀 빈약하다고 생각된다.

또 문제가 생겼고 해결을 하기 위해 노력하는데, 그 결과가 너무 쉽다. 과거를 바꾸었는데, 다른 것에 대한 영향은 거의 없고 딱 그 사건만 바뀐다. 모든 것이 순조롭다. 그래서 긴장감은 좀 떨어진다.

아, 그리고 제목은 한국어판이 더 좋다. 좀 더 내용과 어울린다. '당신 거기에 있어줄래요?'

Will You Be There? by Guillaume Musso

Review

Q. Did you like the book? How many points out of 10 would you give for the book?

 

Q. What did you like and dislike about the book?

 

Q. Would you recommend this book? If so, to whom would you recommend it?

 

Q. What do you think the most important, impressive or favorite part of the story? 

 

Q. If you have any part you didn`t like, what part of the story do you want to change?

 

Q. Do you think the ending of the novel is satisfactory?

 

Q. How does the cover art reflect the themes in the book? If you don’t think it does, what would you depict on the cover if you were the editor and jacket designer?

 

Guillaume Musso

Born in 1974 in Antibes, Guillaume Musso first fell in love with literature at the age of ten, spending most of his summer holed up in the local library, run by his mother.

He began to write as a student. At the age of 19, fascinated by the United States, he moved to New York, as well as New Jersey, for a few months, where he worked as an ice cream vendor, and lived with other workers from many different cultural backgrounds. He admits to having learned a great deal during this period. After that, he returned to France, full of ideas for novels.

He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics, and holds a CAPES teaching certificate in Economics.

With over 19 million copies sold throughout the world, the universal themes addressed in Guillaume Musso’s novels have touched readers in many countries. In 2013, for the third consecutive year, he is the #1 bestselling French novelist in France (source: GFK) and his books have been translated into 36 languages.

Outside of Europe, Guillaume Musso has met with extraordinary success in Korea, where sales of his books total over one million copies. A Mix-up in Heaven(구해줘, Sauve-moi) was number 1 for 28 weeks straight and all of his novels remained at the top of the lists for several months.

[http://www.guillaumemusso.com/en/]

 

Q. Do you like his writing style and why?

 

Q. Why do Korean readers love him so much unlike readers from the other countries?

 

 

 

Bibliography

• Skidamarink (스키다마링크), 2001

• Afterwards... (완전한 죽음), 2004

• A Mix-Up in Heaven (구해줘), 2005

• Will You Be There? (당신 거기 있어줄래요?), 2006

• Lost and Found (사랑하기 때문에), 2007

• One Day, Perhaps (사랑을 찾아 돌아오다), 2008

• Where Would I Be Without You?

(당신 없는 나는?), 2009

• Girl on Paper (종이 여자), 2010

• Call from an Angel (천사의 부름), 2011

• Seven years later (7년후), 2013

• Tomorrow (내일), 2013

• Central Park (센트럴 파크), 2014

• This very instant (original title: L'instant présent),

2015

[http://www.guillaumemusso.com/en/]

 

Q. Have you ever read other books by Guillaume Musso? Or which one of above books do you want to read next?

 

 

Time Travel

 

Q. Though history there have been dozens of mediums used for time travel in literature. Please site examples and compare Will you be there? to the ones with which you are familiar.

 

Q. What was the best time travel fiction/film that you have read/watched?

 

è Examples.

ü  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens [fiction]

ü  Star Trek: Ishmael by Barbara Hambly [fiction]

ü  The Terminator by James Cameron [film]

ü  Back to the future by Robert Zemeckis [film]

ü  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling [fiction&film]

ü  11/22/63 by Stephen King [fiction]

ü  Time traveler’s wife [fiction & film]

ü  X-Men: Days of Future Past y by Bryan Singer [film]

ü  Edge of Tomorrow by Doug Liman [film]

ü  Interstellar by Christopher Nolan [film]

 

Q. Do you think that we can travel time in the future and why?

 

Q. If you had the chance to go back, what would you change in your lives? What mistakes would you try to put right? What would you do differently?

è If you can travel time only one time, will you go back to the past or the future? And why? What will you do?

 

Q. Would we really dare to turn our lives around and go a different way? [p.0]

 

Butterfly Effect

[p.144]

Except that you can’t change the past with impunity. That must he was sure of. Until now he’d managed to limit the damage by behaving as a mere spectator from the future, but if he started trying to interfere in the events of his past life, things could become complicated. Everybody knew about the butterfly effect in chaos theory: through a series of chain reactions, an insignificant event could bring about a large-scale catastrophe; the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in Japan could cause a hurricane in Florida.

 

Q. Will it be ethically to apply the Butterfly Effect Theory to human behavior problems?

 

Fate

[p.158]

‘Because if we save Ilena, you`ll live your life with her.’

‘So?’

‘So, then you’ll never have Angie…’

Elliott wasn’t sure he understood. ‘Where’s the problem?’ he asked, shrugging his shoulders, ‘I’ll have other children…’

‘Other children? But I don`t give a damn about your other children. I don`t want to lose my daughter! I don’t want a world where Angie doesn’t exist!’

‘And I won’t let Ilena die,’ Elliott answered with determination.

 

Q. If you were Elliott and were able to save only one person, who would you save? Ilena or Angie?

Q. How would you react if you were in the same situation to persuade your double?

 

Q. Everybody is saved at the ending. Do you think they could live together happily ever after?

  

[p.162]

Everything that must happen will happen, whatever your efforts to avoid it. Everything that must not happen will not happen, Whatever your efforts to bring it about.

-      Ramana Maharshi

I have noticed that even people who assert that everything is predestinated and that we can change nothing about it look both ways before they cross the street.

-      Stephen Hawking

 

Q. Do you believe in fate? Do you believe in God?

è When you believe in god, do you trust that god does for the goodness of all mankind?

 

Q. Do you think that you are in control of your own fate or no man can avoid his fate?

 

Q. Do you think that you are still master of the way you face it, even if you can’t escape you destiny? [p.221]

 

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Q. Who is the most important and meaningful person in your life? Would you like to change the past to save him/her from danger?

 

Q. Do you have someone to come to save you from danger?

 

Plagiarism

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism]

Legal aspects

Although plagiarism in some contexts is considered theft or stealing, the concept does not exist in a legal sense. "Plagiarism" is not mentioned in any current statute, either criminal or civil. Some cases may be treated as unfair competition or a violation of the doctrine of moral rights. The increased availability of intellectual property due to a rise in technology has furthered the debate as to whether copyright offences are criminal. In short, people are asked to use the guideline, "...if you did not write it yourself, you must give credit."

Plagiarism is also considered a moral offense against anyone who has provided the plagiarist with a benefit in exchange for what is specifically supposed to be original content (for example, the plagiarist's publisher, employer, or teacher). In such cases, acts of plagiarism may sometimes also form part of a claim for breach of the plagiarist's contract, or, if done knowingly, for a civil wrong.

 

plagiarism is defined differently among institutions of higher learning and universities:

ü  Stanford sees plagiarism as the "use, without giving reasonable and appropriate credit to or acknowledging the author or source, of another person's original work, whether such work is made up of code, formulas, ideas, language, research, strategies, writing or other form."

ü  Oxford College of Emory University characterizes plagiarism as the use of "a writer's ideas or phraseology without giving due credit."

ü  Brown defines plagiarism as "... appropriating another person's ideas or words (spoken or written) without attributing those word or ideas to their true source."

 

	나인 : 아홉번의 시간 여행	Will you be there?
name	박선우	Elliot
age	38	60
Job	News anchor	Pediatrician
disease	Brain tumor, terminally ill	Lung cancer, terminally ill
the medium of time travel	10 of incense	10 pills
How to get  the medium	Incense left by his dead brother	Gift from an old Cambodian
Go back to the past	20 years ago	30 years ago
How long to travel time	For 30 mins during the time of burning incense	For 20 mins in some cycle of dreams
Whom wants to see	Family	Ilena
What to do in the past	Want to avenge his family and keep his love	Want to see Ilena again

Q. TvN TV Show Nine has caused plagiarism controversy with Will you be there?, but denied plagiarism charges. Do you think that the writer of Nine plagiarized?

 

Q. Hollywood bought the copyright on Nine for a remake. If you were Guillaume Musso, would you let TvN get the payment without giving you any due credit?

 

Q. If you knew someone copied yours, what would you do?

 

아주경제 _ ‘나인’, ‘표절공화국’ 바다 건너까지 소문낼라