"The Crime of Father Amaro" - Father Amaro's Crime

Japanese: 《アマロ神父の犯罪》 - あまろしんぷのはんざい
"The Crime of Father Amaro" - Father Amaro's Crime

...But his encounters with foreign authors through his extensive reading in his youth were extremely important in shaping his later creativity. His first important work, The Crime of Father Amaro (1875), is famous as the first realist work in the history of Portuguese literature. Cousin Basilio (1878) is also one of the masterpieces of Portuguese realism. These two works confronted readers with a brutally sharp reality that people had not noticed before.

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "Father Amaro's Crimes" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…しかし青年期の乱読を通しての諸外国の作家との出会いは,後のエッサの独創性をつくりあげるうえで,きわめて重要な意味を持つものであった。彼の最初の重要な作品《アマロ神父の犯罪》(1875)はポルトガル文学史上最初のリアリズム文学として名高い。《従兄弟バジリオ》(1878)もポルトガル・リアリズム文学の傑作の一つで,この2作は人びとが気づかないでいた現実を残酷なほど鋭いかたちで読者につきつけたものであった。…

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