"Stone Flower" (Bazhov)

...Born into the family of a craftsman at a metallurgical plant near Ekaterinburg, Bazhov grew up closely observing the customs of the Urals. What made him famous as a "storyteller of fairy tales" was his series of short stories, "The Malachite Box" (1939), which took as their subject matter the legends and customs of the Urals. "The Stone Flower" from this series is particularly famous and has been made into a film and a ballet. As a veteran Communist Party member, Bazhov's creative work is dominated by a socialist glorification of labor, but "The Malachite Box" is a beautiful and poetic work that goes beyond the framework of ideological propaganda. ...

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…エカチェリンブルグ近郊の冶金工場の職人の家に生まれ，ウラルの風俗をつぶさに観察しながら育った。〈おとぎ話の語り手〉としての彼の名声を高めたのは，ウラルの伝説や風俗に題材をとった連作短編集《孔雀石（くじやくいし）の手箱》(1939)であり，その中の《石の花》は特に有名で，映画やバレエにもなった。古参の共産党員であるバジョーフの創作を貫くのは社会主義的立場からの労働賛美だが，《孔雀石の手箱》は思想的宣伝の枠をこえて美しく詩的な作品である。…

※「《石の花》（バジョーフ）」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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