《Red Wheel》

Japanese: 《赤い車輪》 - あかいしゃりん
《Red Wheel》

…When he was exiled from his country, he left the people with the message, "Live without lies." After that, deep in the mountains of Vermont, USA, he devoted himself to writing "The Red Wheel," a great romance that is said to be a rewriting of the history of the Russian Revolution, and published "August 1914," "October 1916," and "March 1917" after 1983. In May 1983, he received the Templeton Prize, known as the Nobel Prize of the religious world, and attended the award ceremony in London, where he sharply criticized modern civilization from a Christian standpoint, saying, "All the tragedies of modern times are caused by our forgetting God." …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "The Red Wheel" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…国を追われたとき〈噓によらず生きよ〉とのメッセージを国民に残した。 その後アメリカ合衆国バーモント州の山奥で,ロシア革命史の書換えともいわれる大ロマン《赤い車輪》の執筆に没頭し,83年以降《1914年8月》《1916年10月》《1917年3月》を刊行。83年5月には宗教界のノーベル賞といわれるテンプルトン賞を受け,ロンドンでの授賞式に出席,〈現代の悲劇はすべてわれわれが神を忘れたことに原因がある〉とキリスト者の立場で現代文明を鋭く批判した。…

※「《赤い車輪》」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。

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