"To Live" - ​​To Live

Japanese: 《生きること》 - いきること
"To Live" - ​​To Live

…After graduating from Oxford University, he took over the family business while secretly engaged in writing. His works include “To Live” (1929), which depicts the life of Birmingham workers, and “Adoration” (1952), which depicts the love life of the London middle class, as well as “Partying” (1939) and “Loving” (1945). His range of subjects is wide, and he brings elements of comedy of manners to psychological novels in the style of V. Woolf, and conveys the “state of life” itself through elaborate prose. …

*Here is a selection of explanations of terms that refer to "living."

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…オックスフォード大学を出て家業を継ぎながらひそかに文筆に従事。バーミンガムの労働者の生活を描いた《生きること》(1929),ロンドンの中産階級の恋愛を描いた《溺愛》(1952)などのほか《パーティ行》(1939),《愛すること》(1945)などがある。題材の範囲は広く,V.ウルフの流れを汲む心理小説的なものに風俗喜劇的な要素をもちこみ,凝った文章で〈生(せい)の状態〉そのものを伝える。…

※「《生きること》」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。

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