Devil's Love - Akuma no Koi

…The fantastic style seen in his early 20s, such as Cat's Paw (1741) and A Thousand and One Idle Tales (1742), was joined by a growing tendency towards mysticism as he grew older, and became even more evident in his later prose poems Olivier (1763) and The Imposter (1767). His representative work, The Devil's Love (1772), is an elegant and delicate portrayal of a mysterious love between the demon Beyondetta and the young knight Albare, whose love is difficult to determine whether it is fact or fantasy. With this series of works, which culminates in this novel, he is considered a pioneer of French fantasy literature. [Nakagawa Makoto]…

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…20代初期の《猫の足》(1741)，《千一無駄話》(1742)にみられた幻想的作風は，年と共に深まる神秘主義的傾向も加わり，その後の散文詩《オリビエ》(1763)，《にわか貴族》(1767)などのなかでいよいよ顕著になる。代表作《悪魔の恋》(1772)は妖魔ビヨンデッタと青年騎士アルバーレの，事実か幻想か定めがたい怪奇な恋を優雅繊細な筆致で描いたもので，この小説を頂点とする一連の作品で，彼はフランス幻想文学の先駆者とみなされている。【中川 信】。…

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