Aphrodite's Rebellion

...The "spirits of the land" evoked by his poetic prose create dense exotic landscapes, in which his methodological consciousness of literary experimentation and his insistence on narrative are intertwined. The two-part novella "Tunqu" (1968) and "Nunqu" (1970), collectively known as "Aphrodite's Rebellion," are works intended to develop the same characteristics in a new way. His other works include the novel "The Black Book" (1938), several travelogues about the Mediterranean region, such as "Bitter Lemons" (1959), a book on modern poetry (1952), and a correspondence with Henry Miller (1963).

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…詩的な散文によって喚起された〈土地の精霊〉が濃密な異国的風景を形づくり，その中で文学的実験の方法意識と物語性への固執とが絡みあっているのが特質といえよう。《アフロディテの反逆》と総称される二部作小説，《トゥンク》(1968)と《ヌンクアム》(1970)は同じ特質の新たな展開を意図した作品である。ほかに小説《黒い本》(1938)，《苦いレモン》(1959)など地中海地方の数冊の紀行文，現代詩論(1952)，ヘンリー･ミラーとの往復書簡(1963)などがある。…

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