《Rabbit,Run》(English) RabbitRun

…Born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, he graduated with honors from Harvard University, studied abroad at the Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University, and worked as an editor at The New Yorker before beginning his career as a writer. He attracted attention with Workhouse Feast (1959), and gained popularity with Rabbit, Run (1960), which depicts the anxieties of a young man who escapes from his daily life. He won the National Book Award for The Centaur (1963), which depicts the suffering of an elderly teacher by juxtaposing a mythical world with the modern world. He is considered a New Yorker-style genre writer with a refined poetic style, but his distinctive style is that he seeks subject matter in ordinary citizen life and pursues theological themes such as love, freedom, and salvation. …

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…ペンシルベニア州シリングトンに生まれ，ハーバード大学を優等で卒業，オックスフォード大学ラスキン美術学校に留学後，《ニューヨーカー》の編集員を経て作家生活に入る。《救貧院の祝祭日》(1959)で注目され，日常生活から逃亡する若者の生の不安を描いた《走れウサギRabbit,Run》(1960)で人気を博し，神話的世界と現代を対置して初老の教師の苦悩を描いた《ケンタウロス》(1963)で全米図書賞を受けた。洗練された詩的文体でニューヨーカー派の風俗作家と目されているが，平凡な市民生活に題材を求め，愛，自由，救済といった神学的主題を追究しているのが特色。…

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