동시대적...

PREFACE

So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use.

HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862.

                     from  “Les Misérables.”, Hugo, Victor.

레미제라블의 서문...

매우 의미심장하다. 어떤 채널이 존재해 1862년의 그와 이야기할 수 있다면 적어도 세대차이는 없을 것같다.

유감스럽게도 이 책은 매우 'of use'이고 심지어 'in action'이라해도 좋을 것 같다.