《Sinuhe the Egyptian》 - Egyptian Sinuhe

…Finnish author. His father was a university lecturer in religious studies. While studying theology and literature, he entered the literary world at the age of 17 with a religious work. His breakthrough work was Grand Illusion (1928), which he sent from Paris, where he was studying, during his third year at university. As is typical of writers in the Firebearers group, he portrays the suffering of a young man with a subtle romanticism and realism. He also wrote dramatic psychological novels and satirical novels, but gained international fame for his full-length historical novels. Set against the backdrop of ancient Egypt, his novel Sinuhe the Egyptian (1945), which tells the story of a doctor who faces the ruin of society and falls into despair, comforted the hearts of many people in the post-World War II social climate of misanthropy. …

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…フィンランドの作家。父は大学の宗教学講師。神学，文学を学びながら17歳で宗教的作品によって文壇に登場。大学3年時に遊学先のパリから書き送った《大きな幻想》(1928)が出世作となった。〈火を掲げる者〉グループの作家らしく，かすかなロマンティシズムとリアリズムで青年の苦悩を描いている。ドラマティックな心理小説や風刺小説を残したが，長編歴史小説で国際的名声を得た。古代エジプトを背景に社会の破滅に立ち向かい失意に陥る医師を主人公にした《エジプト人シヌへ》(1945)は，第2次大戦後の人間不信の世相下，多くの人々の心をいやした。…

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