The Village (Alma Classics Limited)
ロシア農村の荒々しい現実を、二人の兄弟の暮らしを通して厳しく描いた短編小説。
作品情報
乾いた土地の生活が、そのまま人間関係の荒さとして立ち上がる。
1905年革命前後の村を背景に、貧困、暴力、停滞を淡々と積み重ねることで、社会全体の暗さを浮かび上がらせる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Alma Books
- 発売日
- 2013-02-01
- ページ数
- 165ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 12.85 x 1.02 x 19.84 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781847492838
- ISBN-10
- 1847492835
- 価格
- 2404 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Historical
The Village, Ivan Bunin’s first full-length novel, is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centring on episodes in the lives of a landowner and his self-educated peasant brother, the book follows characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human. A triumph of bitter realism, Bunin’s cruel, lyrical prose reveals the pettiness, violence and ignorance of life on the land, foreshadowing the turbulences of Russia in the twentieth century.
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His last book of fiction, Dark Avenues, is arguably the most widely read 20th-century collection of short stories in Russia.
レビュー
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The Village gives us a snapshot of rural russian life in the last years before the Bolshevik revolution told through the lives of two brothers Tikhon and Kusma both born into peasant poverty and now in middle age. Beautifully written with an attention to detail that brings alive the harshness and squalor of peasant life. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the russian revolution and the last years of the tzar.
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I enjoyed this Novel that has all the rich word painting that Bunin is so gifted in. This novel about Russian village life comes close to the intimacy of Chekhov and also in it's bare knuckle presentation that avoids the guilty Tolstoy 'peasant -worship over kill of sentimentality' and presents the reality of peasant life that Bunin and Chekhov, who was a doctor, do not forget, experienced and knew.
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It’s a good “story”... it paints an intriguing portrait. The language is awkward, and it makes it a little hard to read. Most of the issues I had are stylistic, and far be it from me to judge a renowned writer on style, but I think the translators could have possibly made the language more natural.
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A great Russian writer who specialises in short stories and novellas! How ironic! They even gave this guy a Nobel and it's clear why! A lovely writer. I look forward to his short stories.
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Great
関連する文学賞
- ノーベル文学賞 第31回（1933年） ・Winner