《Gold》

Japanese: 《黄金》 - おうごん
《Gold》

…His travel habit did not stop, and his literary horizons broadened further. He published avant-garde novels one after another, which could be considered an extension of his long poems, and performed the remarkable feat of striking a new style with each work. His long novels, such as “Gold” (1925), which is said to have revolutionized the style of French novels, “Morabazine” (1926), and “The Confessions of Dan Yacq” (1929), are already highly regarded as classics of 20th century literature. In 1943, he published the first volume of a unique four-volume series of memoirs, “The Man Struck by Lightning,” which was tentatively completed in 1949 with “A Subdivision in the Sky.” …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Gold" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…その後も旅行癖は止まず,作品の視野はますます広がり,長編詩の延長発展とでもいうべき前衛的小説をやつぎばやに発表し,一作ごとに新しい様式を打ち出す離れ業を演じのけた。フランス小説の文体に革命をもたらしたといわれる《黄金》(1925)をはじめ,《モラバジーヌ》(1926),《ダン・ヤックの告白》(1929)等々の長編小説群は,すでに20世紀文学の古典として高い評価を得ている。43年,4巻から成る特異な回想録シリーズの第1巻《雷に打たれた男》を発表し,49年に刊行された《空の分譲地》で一応の完結を見る。…

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