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Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

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Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1910-06-13 (Serantes, Ferrol, Galicia, Spain)
死没
1999-01-27 (Salamanca, Spain) 88歳
国籍
Spanish
言語
Spanish, Galician
宗教
Roman Catholic
居住地歴
Ferrol (birthplace) → Santiago de Compostela (university) → Oviedo (university / early career) → Madrid (literary career) → Albany, New York (1966–1973, academic post) → Salamanca (1975–1999, later life)

経歴

職業
writer, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, university professor, critic
活動期間
1943年〜1999年
所属
Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), University at Albany, State University of New York (Distinguished Professor), University of Santiago de Compostela (academic post)
所属団体
Real Academia Española (Seat E)
影響を受けた人物
Generation of '36, Traditions of modern Spanish literature (historicism, social themes)
影響を与えた人物
Subsequent generations of Spanish-language writers

学歴

University of Santiago de Compostela
期間: 1920s–1930s(在籍年不詳)
国: Spain
Attended; specific degree and years not consistently documented in source.
University of Oviedo
期間: 1930年代(在籍年不詳)
国: Spain
Early literary activity took place while in Oviedo; specific academic details vary by source.

受賞歴

Cervantes Prize
1985
主催: Spanish government / Cervantes Prize committee
結果: winner
Premio Planeta
1988
対象作品: Filomeno, a mi pesar
主催: Planeta publishing
結果: winner
Fundación Juan March Novel Prize
1957
対象作品: Los gozos y las sombras (El Señor llega)
主催: Fundación Juan March
結果: winner
Critics' Prize
1972
対象作品: La saga/fuga de J. B.
主催: Critics' organizations
結果: winner
City of Barcelona Prize
1972
対象作品: La saga/fuga de J. B.
主催: City of Barcelona
結果: winner
National Literature Prize
1980
対象作品: La isla de los jacintos cortados
主催: Spanish government
結果: winner
Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (shared)
1982
主催: Prince of Asturias Foundation
結果: winner (shared)

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Los gozos y las sombras (trilogy)

1957年 Novel (series / trilogy)

A trilogy exploring power, family, revenge and the darker side of provincial society. Beginning with El Señor llega (1957), it is set in a fictional town in northwest Spain and depicts clashes of personal relations and history.

powerfamilyrevengeprovincial society
映像化・舞台化
  • [TV (miniseries)] Los gozos y las sombras (TV series) (1982)
翻訳

Don Juan

1963年 Novel

A work based on the legendary figure Don Juan, reinterpreting the traditional subject with modern and literary techniques.

legendidentitymorality

La saga/fuga de J. B.

1972年 Novel (experimental)

A long novel with metafictional elements and experimental narration. It probes boundaries of language and storytelling and won the Critics' Prize and City of Barcelona Prize.

metafictionnarrative experimentationpower and history

La isla de los jacintos cortados

1980年 Novel

A work addressing memory and loss, and the relation between the individual and history. Recipient of the National Literature Prize.

memoryhistoryloss

Filomeno, a mi pesar

1988年 Novel

One of his later long novels combining humor, irony and personal reminiscence. It won the Planeta Prize.

remembrancehumorirony

The King Amaz'd (Crónica del rey pasmado)

1989年 Novel (historical fiction)

A satirical historical novel later adapted to film known in English as The Dumbfounded King.

satireabsurdity of powerhistory
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film] The Dumbfounded King (1991)
翻訳
  • The King Amaz'd

全著作

  • Javier Mariño (1943)
  • El golpe de estado de Guadalupe Limón (1946)
  • Ifigenia (1950)
  • Los gozos y las sombras (1957–1962)
  • Don Juan (1963)
  • Off-Side (1968)
  • La saga/fuga de J. B. (1972)
  • Fragmentos de Apocalipsis (1977)
  • La isla de los jacintos cortados (1980)
  • Dafne y ensueños (1982)
  • Quizá nos lleve el viento al infinito (1984)
  • La princesa durmiente va a la escuela (1985)
  • La rosa de los vientos (1985)
  • Yo no soy yo, evidentemente (1987)
  • Filomeno, a mi pesar (1988)
  • Crónica del rey pasmado (1989)
  • Las islas extraordinarias (1991)
  • La muerte del decano (1992)
  • La novela de Pepe Ansúrez (1994)
  • La boda de Chon Recalde (1995)
  • Los años indecisos (1997)
  • Doménica (1999)

翻案

  • Los gozos y las sombras (1982 TV series)
  • Crónica del rey pasmado → The Dumbfounded King (1991 film)

作品の翻訳

  • Crónica del rey pasmado → The King Amaz'd (English translation)

作風・主題

文体
blend of realism and historical narrativemetafictional techniquesironic, satirical tone
頻出モチーフ
memory and lost pastdynamics of provincial communitiesconflict of power and moralityGalician landscape and culture

評価・遺産

Gonzalo Torrente Ballester is regarded as an important figure in 20th-century Spanish literature. Active across genres and winner of major awards including the Cervantes Prize, a foundation was established after his death to preserve, study and promote his work.

関連学会

  • Real Academia Española

資料所蔵先

  • Fundación Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (foundation archives)
  • National Library of Spain (holds related materials)

大衆文化への影響

  • TV series Los gozos y las sombras (1982)
  • Film The Dumbfounded King (adaptation of Crónica del rey pasmado, 1991)

引用

  • “Yo no soy yo, evidentemente (I am not myself, evidently)”
    出典: Title / work of same name (1987年)

豆知識

  • Joined the Falange in his youth but distanced himself politically in later years.
  • Took up Seat E of the Real Academia Española in 1977.
  • Awarded the Cervantes Prize in 1985.
  • The Fundación Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was established after his death in 1999.