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Jean Malaquais

ジャン・マラクエ

Jean Malaquais

別名: Wladimir Jan Pavel Malacki

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1908-01-01 (Warsaw)
死没
1998-12-22 90歳
国籍
Polish, French, American
言語
French, Polish
宗教
Non-religious (Jewish descent)
居住地歴
Poland → France → Mexico → United States

経歴

職業
novelist, translator, labourer
活動期間
1926年〜1998年
所属
Trotskyist Communist League, POUM
所属団体
Gauche communiste de France
影響を受けた人物
André Gide

受賞歴

Prix Renaudot
1939
対象作品: Les Javanais
結果: winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Les Javanais

1939年 novel

Novel based on his experience as an immigrant mine worker in Provence

immigrationlaboralienation
翻訳
  • The Men From Java (1941, English)

Planète sans visa

1947年 novel

About an international group of exiles in Vichy France

exilewarpolitics
翻訳
  • World Without Visa (1949, English)

全著作

  • Les Javanais (1939)
  • Journal de guerre (1943)
  • Coups de barre (1944)
  • Planète sans visa (1947)
  • Le Gaffeur (1953)
  • Søren Kierkegaard: Foi et Paradoxe (1971)

作家による翻訳

  • Translation of Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead
  • Translation of Mircea Eliade's Occultisme, sorcellerie et modes culturelles

作品の翻訳

  • Numerous English translations

作風・主題

文体
realismpolitical
頻出モチーフ
alienationexilesleftist thought

評価・遺産

Known as Prix Renaudot winner, acclaimed for works depicting exiles and laborers

引用

  • I had the feeling that the end of the world was approaching in Poland, so I wanted to discover the life of other lands before it disappeared entirely. Morally and intellectually I was a tramp, a companion of the dispossessed.
    出典: Autobiographical statement

豆知識

  • Jewish descent from non-religious Polish family
  • Pen name from Quai Malaquais
  • Fought in Spanish Civil War with POUM
  • Escaped to Mexico with Varian Fry's help