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| A Personal Record and The Mirror of the Sea | kazu634 | 2006-01-31 | /2006/01/31/a-personal-record-and-the-mirror-of-the-sea/ |
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Joseph ConradのA Personal Record and The Mirror of the Sea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？
序文でおもしろいと思ったのは、次の部分。
Those
who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world,
rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as
the hills. It rests notably, amongst others, on the idea of
Fidelity. At a time when nothing which is not revolutionary in
some way or other can expect to attract much attention, I have not been
revolutionary in my writings. The revolutionary spirit is mighty
convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards
ideas. Its hard, absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the
menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one
should smile at these things; but imperfect Aesthete, I am no better
Philosopher. All claim to special riighteousness awakens in me
that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free…
「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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A Personal Record and A Mirror of the Sea : Mirror of the Sea (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Joseph Conrad Penguin Classics 1999-01-01 by G-Tools |