Flax Field

…He became famous for his collections of short stories such as “Spring Life” (1899), “Season of the Sun” and “Summer Land” (both 1900), which depict the nature and peasant life of Flanders in a rhythmic style with strong dialectal influences. His representative works include “The Flax Field” (1907), which depicts the struggle between father and son over the real power of a farming family, and “Life and Death in the Drying Shed” (1926), which explores the issue of life and death through the stories of the night watchmen at a sugar drying house. [Shibusawa Motonori] …

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…フランドルの自然と農民の生活を方言色の濃いリズミカルな文体で描いた《春の生活》(1899)，《太陽の季節》《夏の土地》(ともに1900)などの短編集で一躍有名になった。一農家の実権をめぐる父と子の争いを描いた《亜麻畑》(1907)，砂糖乾燥所の夜番たちの物語に託して生死の問題を追求した《乾燥小屋における生と死》(1926)が代表作とされている。【渋沢 元則】。…

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