Maritime Novel - Kaiyou Shosetsu

Japanese: 海洋小説 - かいようしょうせつ
Maritime Novel - Kaiyou Shosetsu
Maritime novels are written and read in any country bordering the sea, but when it comes to a nation that produced excellent works and became widely known throughout the world, the Anglo-Saxons must come first. They settled on the sea-surrounded island of Great Britain, and after defeating the Spanish Armada in 1588, they built a powerful maritime nation that conquered the oceans of the world for more than three centuries. So it is only natural that Conrad's novel Youth (1902) describes England as "a country in which man and the sea, so to speak, are mutually interpenetrating -- a country in which the sea is in the life of most people, and in which people themselves know something, or everything, about the sea, whether through recreation, travel, or livelihood."

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
海に面している国であれば,どこでも海洋小説が書かれ,読まれるはずであるが,すぐれた作品を生み出し,広く全世界に知られる民族ということになると,やはりアングロ・サクソン人をまずあげなければならない。海に囲まれたグレート・ブリテン島に定住した彼らは,1588年にスペインの〈無敵艦隊〉を破って以来,3世紀以上もの間,全世界の海を征服する強大な海洋国家を築いた。だから〈人間と海とが,いわば互いに浸透し合っている国――たいがいの人間の生活に海がはいり込んでいるし,人間の方でも,娯楽なり,旅行なり,または生計の道なりによって,海についてある程度,ないしは何から何まで知っている国〉と,コンラッドの小説《青春》(1902)の中でイギリスが描かれるのも当然であろう。

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