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title: A Personal Record and The Mirror of the Sea
author: kazu634
date: 2006-01-31
url: /2006/01/31/a-personal-record-and-the-mirror-of-the-sea/
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    　Joseph Conradの<i>A Personal Record</i> and <i> The Mirror of the Sea</i>を古本屋に注文し、本日届きました。↓のしぶいおじいさんがConradです。もと船乗りのポーランド人で、イギリスに帰化してモダニズムの先駆けとなるような小説を書きました。日本人には、映画『地獄の黙示録』の原作を書いた人と言った方がわかるかな？
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    　序文でおもしろいと思ったのは、次の部分。
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      Those
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      who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world,
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      rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as
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      the hills.&#160; It rests notably, amongst others, on the idea of
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      Fidelity.&#160; At a time when nothing which is not revolutionary in
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      some way or other can expect to attract much attention, I have not been
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      revolutionary in my writings.&#160; The revolutionary spirit is mighty
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      convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards
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      ideas.&#160; Its hard, absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the
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      menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains.&#160; No doubt one
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      should smile at these things; but imperfect Aesthete, I am no better
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      Philosopher.&#160; All claim to special riighteousness awakens in me
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      that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free&#8230;
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    　「私は物書きという点では革命的ではなかった」と述べていますが、それはウソだと思います。これまでの伝統的な物語りの形式を覆すような語りのスタイルを提示していると思うのですが…。何に対する「忠誠」(Fidelity）なのかも気になりますね。
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