Polidori, JW

Japanese: Polidori,J.W.(英語表記)PolidoriJW
Polidori, JW

… The vampire, vanquished by reason, came back to life in the fiction of 19th-century literature and art. The vampires of Merimee and Gogol remained in the folk world, but with works such as Byron's unfinished work Fragments, which was born along with M. Shelley's Frankenstein when Shelley and others competed to write horror stories on the shores of Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816, and Polidori's (1795-1821) The Vampire (1819), the vampire gradually crept into the interior of modern civil society. Rymer's (1814-84) work, Bernie the Vampire (1847), was a representative work after that, but at the end of the 19th century, the image of the female vampire appeared frequently as a "cruel beauty" or "femme fatale," a metaphor for destructive sexual temptation. …

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… 理性に退治された吸血鬼は,しかし19世紀文学芸術の虚構の中から息を吹き返す。メリメやゴーゴリの吸血鬼は,なお土俗的世界にとどまったが,1816年夏ジュネーブ湖畔でシェリーらが恐怖物語の創作を競い合った際に,M.シェリーの《フランケンシュタイン》とともに生まれたバイロンの未完成作《断片》,およびポリドリJohn William Polidori(1795‐1821)の《吸血鬼》(1819)といった作品を伴って,吸血鬼はしだいに近代市民社会の内部に忍び寄ってくる。ライマーMalcolm Rymer(1814‐84)の作とされる《吸血鬼バーニ》(1847)はその後の代表作だが,さらに19世紀末には,破滅的な性的誘惑のメタファーたる〈残酷な美女〉〈宿命の女(ファム・ファタル)〉として,女吸血鬼のイメージがしきりに出現した。…

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