Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man: The Memoirs of George Sherston (The George Sherston Trilogy)
田園での少年時代の記憶と戦争体験を回想する自伝的長編。牧歌的な日常が戦争によって切り替わる瞬間を描く。
作品情報
少年時代のノスタルジアと戦争の断絶が、静かに交差する。
Siegfried Sassoon の代表的な回想小説。戦前の英国的な牧歌と戦争の現実が対比される。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Penguin Classics
- 発売日
- 2013-05-28
- ページ数
- 320ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 12.85 x 1.85 x 19.69 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780143107156
- ISBN-10
- 0143107151
- 価格
- 4474 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/War
The first volume in Siegfried Sassoon’s beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston , with a new introduction by celebrated historian Paul Fussell A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. In this first novel of the semiautobiographical George Sherston trilogy, Sassoon wonderfully captures the vanishing idylls of the Edwardian English countryside. Never out of print since its original publication in 1928, when it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Sassoon's reminiscences about childhood and the beginning of World War I are channeled through young George Sherston, whose life of local cricket tournaments and fox-hunts falls apart as war approaches and he joins up to fight. Sassoon's first novel, though rife with comic characters and a jaunty sense of storytelling, presents his own loss of innocence and the destruction of the country he knew and loved. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) was a poet and novelist whose novels include the James Tait Black Award–winning Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man . He is recognized as one of the great poets of World War I and one of the war’s most influential opponents. Paul Fussell (1925–2012) was a writer, editor, and historian whose experiences in World War II led to his writing the award-winning classic The Great War and Modern Memory . He was also the editor of the collection Sassoon’s Long Journey .
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writing at it's finest
From the first page I was hooked. The writing is beautiful, nostalgic and Sassoon captures the essence of innocence as well as time and place. I will read the rest of the Trilogy, and to anyone who loves to read, this is it.
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Remembering WW I
In the list of books about World War I, this is a good one. It's slightly fictionalized , but corresponds to Sassoon's real life. His Memoirs of an Infantry Officer is a continuation. There is a third volume, but I haven't read that one. Sassoon's friendship with Robert Graves author of Good-bye to All That ( 5 stars) is of great interest. Other key memoirs about WW I are Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger (5 stars) , Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden (4 stars) (also a friend of Sassoon), Under Fire by Henri Barbusse, badly translated but worth it--in French the title is simply Feu, and it's better to read it in French until a better translation comes along. I'd also include A German Deserter's War Experiences, anonymous. It's available still. I bought n early edition from Lowdermilks' Used Bookstore when I was 11 or 12. There are more on my list, but that's a good start for considering WW I on its centennial.
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Three Stars
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THE Classic !
A Brilliant tome by a Brilliant and Brave Poet !
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Written by one of the great First World War poets
1st volume of an autobiography, thinly disguised by the changing of all names but one. Written by one of the great First World War poets.
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