Of Time and the River

...He went to Europe in 1930 after receiving a Guggenheim scholarship, and returned to Japan the following year, living in Brooklyn and devoting himself to writing. While surviving financial difficulties by writing short stories, he finally accumulated a huge number of manuscripts, which were published in 1935 by the famous editor Maxwell E. Perkins as a full-length novel, Of Time and the River. As with the previous work, the protagonist is Eugene, and the book depicts the emotional and fluctuating feelings of a lonely young man who has left his hometown through a series of fascinating anecdotes and a torrent of eloquence. ...

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…グッゲンハイム奨学金を得て30年に渡欧，翌年には帰国してブルックリンに住み創作に没頭する。短編を書くことで経済的窮迫をしのぎながら，ようやく書きためた膨大な原稿が，35年に名編集者パーキンズMaxwell E.Perkinsの手で長編《時間と川Of Time and the River》として出版される。前作同様ユージーンを主人公に，故郷の外へ出た孤独な青年の多感に揺れ動く心情を，魅力的な挿話の積重ねと奔流のような饒舌で描き出している。…

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