Handful of Dust

...The following year, in 1929, the marriage was dissolved, and in 1930, he published his second novel, "The Filthy Body," and converted to Catholicism in the same year. As a correspondent for The Times, he visited Ethiopia, Aden, the Congo, and other places, and published "Black Mischief" (1932), a satirical portrayal of the locals who blindly accepted Western culture, the masterpiece of a slapstick coincidence novel, "A Handful of Dust" (1934), and the provocatively apologetic biography, "Campion, the Martyr" (1935). In 1937, he remarried Laura Herbert, the granddaughter of an aristocrat. ...

*The following is a portion of the terminology that refers to "A Handful of Dust."

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…翌29年事実上結婚を解消，30年には第2作《汚れた肉体》を発表し，同年カトリックに改宗した。タイムズ特派員としてエチオピア，アデン，コンゴなどを歴訪し，西欧文化をうのみにする現地人を揶揄的に描いた《黒いいたずら》(1932)，どたばた偶然小説の傑作《一握の塵》(1934)，挑発的なまでに護教的な伝記《殉教者キャンピオン》(1935)などを発表した。37年貴族の孫娘ローラ･ハーバートと再婚。…

※「《一握の塵》」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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