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๐Ÿ“• ใ€Ž๊ณ ์–‘์ดใ€๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ  - Reading โ€œDemain les chatsโ€

๐Ÿ“• ใ€Ž๊ณ ์–‘์ดใ€๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ  - Reading โ€œDemain les chatsโ€

๐Ÿ’ก (ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด) ์ฒซ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ž‘๊ฐ€, ๋‚ฏ์„  ์žฌํšŒ

ใ€Ž๊ณ ์–‘์ดใ€๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ 

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๐Ÿ“– ์ฑ… ์ œ๋ชฉ: ใ€Ž๊ณ ์–‘์ดใ€
โœ๏ธ ์ž‘๊ฐ€: ๋ฒ ๋ฅด๋‚˜๋ฅด ๋ฒ ๋ฅด๋ฒ ๋ฅด
๐ŸŽฏ ์ถ”์ฒœ ๋Œ€์ƒ: ๋ฒ ๋ฅด๋ฒ ๋ฅด์˜ ์—ด๋ ฌํ•œ ํŒฌ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์ฏค.
๐ŸŒŸ ํ•œ์ค„ ๊ฐ์ƒ: ๋‚ฏ์„ค๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์ง„ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ์ด๋ฆ„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•„๋ จํ•œ ์‹ค๋ง.


๐Ÿœ ๋‚˜์˜ 20๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์žฅ์•…ํ•œ ์ด๋ฆ„, ๋ฒ ๋ฅด๋ฒ ๋ฅด

โ€˜๊ฐœ๋ฏธโ€™, โ€˜๋น ์‚์šฉโ€™, โ€˜ํƒ€๋‚˜ํ† ๋…ธํŠธโ€™โ€ฆ
๋‚ด 20๋Œ€์˜ ์ƒ์ƒ๋ ฅ์„ ํ”๋“ค์–ด ๋†“์•˜๋˜ ์ด๋ฆ„, ๋ฒ ๋ฅด๋‚˜๋ฅด ๋ฒ ๋ฅด๋ฒ ๋ฅด.
๊ทธ์˜ ์ฑ…์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด ์ฝ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ฒ ํ•™๊ณผ ์ƒ์ƒ๋ ฅ์„ ๋„˜๋‚˜๋“œ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋งŒ์˜ ์šฐ์ฃผ์— ๋น ์ ธ ์‚ด๋˜ ์‹œ์ ˆ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ์„œ์ ์—์„œ ๋งˆ์ฃผ์ณค๋‹ค.
๋จผ์ง€ ์Œ“์ธ ๊ธฐ์–ต์„ ๋’ค๋กœํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ์ฑ…์€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ใ€Ž๊ณ ์–‘์ดใ€.
์ฃผ์ €ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๊ณจ๋ž๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋„ ์ปธ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ™ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐโ€ฆ ์ด๊ฑด ์•„๋‹Œ๋ฐ?

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒโ€ฆ
์ฝ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ์ด์ƒํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
์ฒ˜์Œ์—” โ€œ์—ญ์‹œ ๋ฒ ๋ฅด๋ฒ ๋ฅด๋‹ต๋‹ค!โ€ ์‹ถ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ,
๊ณง ์˜ˆ์ „์˜ ๊ทธ ์น˜๋ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ณตํ•ฉ์ ์ธ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์€ ์–ด๋”” ๊ฐ”์ง€? ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜๋ฌธ์ด ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ต์ˆ™ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ป”ํ•œ ์ „๊ฐœ์™€ ๋ž˜ํผํ† ๋ฆฌ
  • โ€˜๊ฐœ๋ฏธโ€™์—์„œ ๋ณด์—ฌ์คฌ๋˜ ๋‹ค์ธต์  ์‹œ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€๊ณ ,
  • ์ค‘๊ฐ„์— ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•œ ์ธ๋ฌผ๋“ค์ด ๋‹ค ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•ด์ฃผ๋Š” ์‹์˜ ํ๋ฆ„์€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ธ‰์ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ๋‹ค

โ€˜๊ฐœ๋ฏธโ€™์˜€๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‹œ์ ๊ณผ ์ƒํƒœ๊ฐ€ ๋ณต์žกํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์–ฝํžˆ๋ฉฐ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ปค๋‹ค๋ž€ ์ธ์‹์˜ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์กŒ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ,
์ด ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ์ผ์ง์„ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค๊ฐ€, ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•ด ๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ ๋А๋‚Œ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ’” ์ฒซ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์€ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ฒซ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์œผ๋กœ ๋‚จ์•˜๋”๋ผ๋ฉด

์ด ์ฑ…์„ ๋ฎ๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„œ, ๋งˆ์Œ์†์— ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์ด ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ž๋‹ค.

์˜ˆ์ „์˜ ์ฒซ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งŒ๋‚ฌ์ง€๋งŒ,
๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋„ ๋‚˜๋„ ์˜ˆ์ „ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๊ตฌ๋‚˜.

๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ณ€ํ–ˆ์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ ,
์ž‘๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋ณ€ํ–ˆ์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
์–ด์ฉŒ๋ฉด ๋‘˜ ๋‹ค์ผ์ง€๋„.

๊ทธ๋ƒฅ โ€˜๊ฐœ๋ฏธโ€™์™€ โ€˜๋น ์‚์šฉโ€™ ์†์—์„œ๋งŒ ๋ฒ ๋ฅด๋ฒ ๋ฅด๋Š” ์˜์›ํžˆ ๋‚ด ๊ธฐ์–ต ์† ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋กœ ๋‚จ์•˜๋”๋ผ๋ฉด ์ข‹์•˜์„ ํ…๋ฐ.
๊ดœํžˆ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ฐพ์•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์•„์‰ฌ์›€๋งŒ ๋‚จ๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๋А๋‚Œ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๐Ÿ˜ข


๐Ÿ“– ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„, ์ฝ๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ์€ ๋น ์ ธ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค

๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ „ํ˜€ ์žฌ๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฑด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋ชฐ์ž…๊ฐ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ฒด์™€
  • ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์„ธ๊ณ„๊ด€์˜ ๋ฐœ์ƒ๋ ฅ์€ ์‚ด์•„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ 
  • ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ํŽผ์น˜๋ฉด ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์ฑ…์„ ๋ฎ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ํž˜์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ๋ฒ ๋ฅด๋ฒ ๋ฅด์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด โ€˜๊ฐํƒ„์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„โ€™์€
์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ๋๋‚ด ๋งŒ๋‚˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.


โœ… ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ์ƒ๊ฐ

ใ€Ž๊ณ ์–‘์ดใ€๋ฅผ ์ฝ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋‚จ์€ ๊ฐ์ •์€ ์•„๋ž˜์™€ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค:

  • ๊ธฐ์–ต ์† ์ž‘๊ฐ€์™€์˜ ์žฌํšŒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์„ฑ์žฅ์˜ ๊ฐ„๊ทน ๐Ÿ˜”
    • ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋€ ๊ฑธ๊นŒ, ์ž‘๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋€ ๊ฑธ๊นŒ, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๋‘˜ ๋‹ค?
    • ์ฒซ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งˆ์ฃผํ•œ ๋“ฏํ•œ, ์•„๋ จํ•จ๊ณผ ์‹ค๋ง์ด ๋™์‹œ์—
  • ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ๋“ฏ ๋‚ฏ์„  ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ ๐Ÿพ
    • ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๊ผˆ๊ธฐ์—, ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๋” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์›€์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค
    • ๋ฒ ๋ฅด๋ฒ ๋ฅด ํŒฌ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋กœ ๋” ์‹ ์„ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์กŒ์„์ง€๋„
  • ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ฒ ๋ฅด๋ฒ ๋ฅด๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ๐Ÿ“˜
    • ๋๊นŒ์ง€ ์ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ํž˜์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์กด์žฌ
    • ์‹ค๋ง์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œ๋„, ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฑ…์ด ๋‚˜์˜ค๋ฉด ๋˜ ์ง‘์–ด ๋“ค๊ฒŒ ๋ ์ง€๋„โ€ฆ

ใ€Ž๊ณ ์–‘์ดใ€๋Š” ๋‚ด๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋˜์ง„ ์ฑ…์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”์™€ ๋…์ž์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”, ๊ทธ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ์ฑ…์„ ์ฝ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๊ฐ€?


๐Ÿ’ก (English) A Beloved Author, Now a Stranger

Reading โ€œDemain les chatsโ€

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๐Ÿ“– Book Title: Demain les chats (Tomorrow the Cats)
โœ๏ธ Author: Bernard Werber
๐ŸŽฏ Recommended For: Hardcore fans of Werber โ€” maybe once.
๐ŸŒŸ One-line Impression: A familiar name that felt strangely distant โ€” and left a faint sadness.


๐Ÿœ Bernard Werber, Who Shaped My Twenties

The Ants, Papillon, Thanatonautsโ€ฆ
Bernard Werber was the name that captivated my imagination in my twenties.
If it was a book by Werber, I read it without question.
I was completely immersed in his universe, where philosophy and imagination danced together.

And then one day, I stumbled upon his name again in a bookstore.
I brushed off the dust of old memories and picked up Demain les chats.
I didnโ€™t hesitate โ€” and my expectations were high.


๐Ÿ™ Butโ€ฆ Something Was Off

But as I readโ€ฆ
Something felt off.
At first, I thought, โ€œYes, this feels like Werber!โ€
But then I found myself wondering:
โ€œWhere did the intricate, layered structure I used to love go?โ€

  • The story started with familiar energy, but soon fell into predictable tropes and reused formulas
  • The multi-layered timelines and settings that defined The Ants were nowhere to be seen
  • And then, new characters would appear out of nowhere and solve everything abruptly, making the plot feel rushed

If this were The Ants,
different viewpoints and ecologies would have interwoven into a grand structure of unified awareness.
But in this book, the plot ran in a straight line and ended too easily.


๐Ÿ’” Perhaps First Loves Should Stay in the Past

When I closed the book, a quiet thought came to me:

โ€œMeeting your first love again, only to realizeโ€ฆ
neither of you are who you used to be.โ€

Maybe Iโ€™ve changed.
Maybe the author has.
Maybe both of us have.

Maybe Werber should have just stayed the legend in my memory, the one from The Ants and Papillon.
Reaching out again only left me feeling disappointed. ๐Ÿ˜ข


๐Ÿ“– Still, I Was Immersed While It Lasted

That said โ€” it wasnโ€™t without its merits.

  • The writing still had that immersive pull
  • The concepts and world-building were intriguing
  • Once I started, it was hard to stop turning the pages

But the โ€œWerber-style moment of aweโ€ โ€”
that moment I used to wait for โ€” never really came this time.


โœ… Final Thoughts

Hereโ€™s how Demain les chats left me feeling:

  • Reuniting with a familiar author, only to face the gap of growth ๐Ÿ˜”
    • Have I changed? Has the author? Or both?
    • Like meeting your first love again โ€” bittersweet and strange
  • Familiar yet foreign storytelling ๐Ÿพ
    • Perhaps I thought I knew too much, and so there was little surprise
    • A non-fan might have found it all more refreshing
  • Still, itโ€™s Werber ๐Ÿ“˜
    • He still knows how to keep you reading to the end
    • Disappointed or not โ€” if another book comes, I might pick it up againโ€ฆ

Demain les chats left me asking:
When authors change, and readers change โ€” what kind of books do we still hope to find?


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