…Born in Asheville, North Carolina, she graduated from her local state university in 1920 and then went on to graduate school at Harvard to study playwriting. In 1928, she completed her novel Look Homeward, Angel, and the following year, this autobiographical novel, with its vivid depiction of the life of mountain people and the fresh emotion of the young Eugene Gantt, who yearns for "beyond the mountains," instantly established Woolf as a rising star in the American literary world. She received a Guggenheim scholarship and traveled to Europe in 1930, returning to Japan the following year and living in Brooklyn, where she devoted herself to writing. … *Some of the terminology that refers to "Look Homeward, Angel" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…ノース・カロライナ州アッシュビルに生まれ,1920年に地元の州立大学を卒業したあとハーバードの大学院に進学,劇作術を学ぶ。28年に長編《天使よ故郷を見よLook Homeward,Angel》を完成するが,翌年に出版されたこの自伝小説は,山国の人々の生態のなまなましい描写と〈山なみのかなた〉に思いをはせる青年ユージーン・ガントのみずみずしい情感のゆえに,一躍ウルフをアメリカ文壇の新星の位置に据える。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。… ※「《Look Homeward,Angel》」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。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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