… From Bulwer-Lytton…His many works are diverse, ranging from high society novels, political novels, crime novels, horror novels, and future novels. Although they lack depth and artistic quality, they skillfully capture the tastes and trends of the time and are widely accepted by readers. His famous works include Pelham (1828), a tale of the romantic and political adventures of a high society young man, Ernest Maltravers (1837), Paul Clifford (1830), which treats crime as a social problem and portrays criminals sympathetically, and Eugene Allam (1832), a historical novel from the Roman period, The Last Days of Pompeii (1834). Many of his works, including Ernest Maltravers (translated by Junichiro Niwa as Hanayagi Shunwa, 1878), were translated into Japanese in the 1870s, making him a pioneer in the history of translating Western novels, along with D. Defoe and J. Verne. … *Some of the terminology that mentions "Ernest Maltravers" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
… 【ブルワー・リットン】より…作品は多く,社交界小説,政治小説,犯罪小説,怪奇小説,未来小説など多様であり,深さや芸術性には欠けるものの,時代の好みや風潮を巧みにとらえて広い読者に迎えられた。社交界の上流青年の恋と政治の遍歴物語《ペラム》(1828),《アーネスト・マルトラバーズ》(1837),犯罪を社会問題とし,犯罪者を同情的に描く《ポール・クリフォード》(1830),《ユージン・アラム》(1832),ローマ時代の歴史小説《ポンペイ最後の日》(1834)などが有名である。日本でも《アーネスト・マルトラバーズ》(丹羽純一郎訳《花柳春話》1878)をはじめ,多くの作品が明治10年代に翻訳され,西洋小説翻訳史上,D.デフォーやJ.ベルヌらと並んで先駆をなした。… ※「《アーネスト・マルトラバーズ》」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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