Undine (Fuke) - Undine

…He was deeply fascinated by the heroic age of ancient Scandinavia and the world of medieval German knights, and wrote many romantic stories and plays based on myths and legends. He inspired the national spirit of the German people, who were oppressed by Napoleon at the time, and was widely loved. His representative work, Undine (1811), which depicts the tragic love of a water nymph, is a typical example of Romantic literature and is still popular today due to Hoffmann's opera and Giraudoux's play Ondine. [Nakai Chiyuki] …

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…古代北欧の英雄時代と中世ドイツの騎士世界に強くあこがれ，神話･伝説を素材にしたロマン的な物語，戯曲を多作，ナポレオンに抑圧された当時のドイツ国民の民族精神を鼓舞しひろく愛好された。水の妖精の悲恋をえがいた代表作《ウンディーネUndine》(1811)はロマン主義文学の典型として，ホフマンのオペラ，ジロードゥーの戯曲《オンディーヌ》によって今日でも親しまれている。【中井 千之】。…

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