ナイケ文学賞（Nagroda Literacka 'Nike'）
In the Garden of Memory
四世代にわたるユダヤ系ポーランド人一家の歴史を、著者自身の記憶と調査でたどる家族記憶の大作。個々の人生が、20世紀の激動に飲み込まれたり持ちこたえたりする様子が立体的に描かれる。
作品情報
家族史をたどることが、そのまま20世紀の輪郭をなぞることになる。
著者の祖先たちを起点に、書簡・記録・記憶を束ねながら、ユダヤ系ポーランド人一家の生の軌跡をたどる。私的な歴史がそのまま近代ポーランド史と重なり合う。
レビュー要約
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読者は、家族の歴史を細部まで掘り起こす丁寧さと、私的な記憶が大きな歴史へ広がる構成を高く評価する。系譜を追う密度の高さに圧倒される声もある。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Rivertowns Books
- 発売日
- 2025-10-13
- ページ数
- 430ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.24 x 2.46 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781953943705
- ISBN-10
- 1953943705
- 価格
- 4855 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/History/Europe/Eastern
Winner of the Nike Prize, Poland’s most prestigious literary award Joanna Olczak-Ronikier is one of Poland’s most admired dramatists, screenwriters, and authors. In the Garden of Memory, her most acclaimed work, traces the lives of four generations of her own family—Polish Jews who were members of one of the country’s most illustrious clans, noted for its achievements in business, politics, and culture—as they lived, struggled, and (mostly) survived through the turbulent twentieth century. Rich with tales of bravery as well as poignant, sometimes comic anecdotes of everyday life, the book follows the family members as they scattered around the world to European spas, tsarist prisons, Soviet war camps, and the Royal Air Force. Tracing their roots to a renowned Austrian rabbi, the family members included an array of amazing characters. One became an industrial magnate who founded the Citroën automobile company in France; another was a Communist revolutionary who ended up being arrested, tortured, and executed by Stalin’s police. One worked as an undercover agent, another as a zoologist in France. One became a notable Polish publisher, another a leading Freudian psychiatrist. Inevitably, the tragic history of the Second World War and its catastrophic impact on European Jews looms darkly over the narrative, yet remarkably enough only two members of the clan were killed in the Holocaust. Today the survivors have continued the family journey around the world, including in the United States. Beautifully translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, In the Garden of Memory is ultimately the uplifting account of a family that never gave up hope and never gave in.
Joanna Olczak-Ronikier was born in 1934 and is a highly acclaimed writer and journalist. In the Garden of Memory (W ogrodzie pamieci) won the Nike Annual Literary Prize in Poland in 2002 and was also shortlisted for the prestigious Wingate Literary Prize 2005, awarded by the Jewish Quarterly. She has also written plays for radio and theatre, as well as the screenplay for a major television serial about the history of a 19th-century Kraków family. In 1956, she cofounded the Piwnica pod Baranami Cabaret in Kraków, a literary and political gathering place that is popular to this day. Her grandparents, the Mortkowicz family, ran one of the best publishing houses and literary bookshops in Poland before World War Two. Antonia Lloyd-Jones has translated works by many of Poland's leading contemporary novelists and reportage authors, as well as classics, biographies, essays, crime fiction, poetry and children's books. Her translation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by 2018 Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International prize. For ten years she was a mentor for the Emerging Translators' Mentorship Programme, and is a former co-chair of the UK Translators Association.