뉴욕, 런던, 도쿄를 강타한 블록버스터 뮤지컬 '위키드'의 원작. 약자의 편에 서서 권력에 맞서는 초록색 피부의 마녀가 주인공인 판타지소설이다. '사람들이 어떻게 자신의 적을 악마로 탈바꿈시키는가'에 대한 이야기이기도 하다. 고전 동화 <오즈의 마법사>를 패러디했다. <위키드>에서는 도로시의 물벼락을 맞고 녹아버린 사악한 서쪽나라 마녀가 주인공이고, 오즈의 마법사는 잔혹한 폭군 독재자다.
초록색 피부를 가지고 태어난, 격정적이고 독립적인 소녀 엘파바. 그녀는 시즈 대학에서 허영으로 가득한 금발의 글린다와 묘한 우정을 나누게 된다. 이들의 삶의 터전인 먼치킨랜드는, 말하고 지적 활동을 하는 동물들이 인간과 동등한 시민 대접을 받으며 번영하는 도시였다. 하지만 오즈의 마법사가 독재자로 군림하여 동물들을 노예로 전락시키면서 시즈 대학교의 친구들은 서로 다른 운명을 택하게 된다.
Set in an Oz where a morose Wizard battles suicidal thoughts, the story of the green-skinned Elphaba, otherwise known as the Wicked Witch of the West, profiles her as an animal rights activist striving to avenge her dear sister's death.
The New York Times bestseller and basis for the Tony-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande
With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire's Wicked is established not only as a commentary on our time but as a novel to revisit for years to come. Wicked relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film starring Margaret Hamilton (and Judy Garland). In this fast-paced, fantastically real, and supremely entertaining novel, Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination.
Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin--no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz's most promising young citizens.
But Elphaba's Oz is no utopia. The Wizard's secret police are everywhere. Animals--those creatures with voices, souls, and minds--are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals--even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas.
Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name--one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel's distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire's Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch.
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