Roman

Japanese: roman
Roman

… In contrast to this standard novel, there is the romance on the one hand, and the allegory or allegorical tale on the other. Romance was originally the name of medieval French chivalric tales, and is the basis for the term "roman" in modern European languages, but the romance here refers to stories that are free to use the imagination, such as adventures, mysteries, and idealized characters, and is not limited to such specific historical forms. On the other hand, allegories use the form of a story, but actually appeal to the reader's intellectual interests, such as some idea or concept. Rabelais's "The Story of Gargantua and Pantagruel" and Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" are typical examples. …

From "Narrative Literature"

...Although there will be a lack of uniformity, this is unavoidable since the names and classifications of literary genres are inevitably regional. In any case, story is the higher concept, and therefore the conventional approach of equating story with narrative literature is an unfair oversimplification (if we were to translate this into Western languages, perhaps story would be closer to narrative or récit, and narrative literature to romance or roman). The following characteristics can be noted about this narrative literature...

*Some terminology explanations that mention "roman" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… この標準的な小説に対立するものとして,一方にロマンス,他方にアレゴリーないし寓意物語がある。ロマンスはもともと中世フランスの騎士道物語の名で,現代ヨーロッパ諸語で小説を〈ロマンroman〉と呼ぶもととなっているが,ここでのロマンスはそうした特定の歴史的形態を離れて,広く冒険,不思議,理想化された人物など,空想を自由にはばたかせた物語をいう。一方,アレゴリーは物語という形を利用しながら,実は何かの思想や観念など読者の知的興味に訴えるもので,ラブレーの《ガルガンチュアとパンタグリュエルの物語》やスウィフトの《ガリバー旅行記》などがその典型である。…

【物語文学】より

…斉一性を欠くことになるが,文学ジャンルの名称や区分は地方性をまぬかれがたい節があるからやむをえない。とにかく物語の方が上位の概念であり,したがって物語=物語文学とするこれまでの方式は事態を不当に単純化しすぎていることになる(あえて西欧語に移せば物語はnarrativeとかrécitに,物語文学はromanceとかromanに近いというべきか)。 この物語文学については,次のような特質を指摘できよう。…

※「roman」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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