《Nouveaux dialogues des morts》 (English notation)

Japanese: 《Nouveaux dialogues des morts》(英語表記)Nouveauxdialoguesdesmorts
《Nouveaux dialogues des morts》 (English notation)

…He moved to Paris and was looked after by his maternal uncle, the playwright Thomas Corneille. He frequented salons, tried his hand at playwriting, and worked as an editor for the magazine Mercure Galant. In the “controversy between the old and the new,” which divided the literary world at the time, he took the side of the modernists and published “Nouveaux dialogues des morts” (1683). This work consists of 24 paradoxical dialogues, which deny the absolute authority of the ancients and assert that human nature remains constant. …

*Some of the terminology referenced in "Nouveaux dialogues des morts" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…パリに出て母方の伯父で,劇作家のトマ・コルネイユの世話をうけ,サロンに出入りし,劇作に手をそめたり,《メルキュール・ギャラン》誌の編集にたずさわる。当時の文壇を二分した〈新旧論争〉では近代派の側について活躍し,《新・死者たちの対話Nouveaux dialogues des morts》(1683)を発表した。この作品は逆説にみちた24編の対話より成り,古代人の絶対的権威を否定して人間の本性が一貫して変わらないことを主張している。…

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