Late Summer - Der Nachsommer

Japanese: 晩夏 - ばんか(英語表記)Der Nachsommer
Late Summer - Der Nachsommer

A full-length novel by Austrian author Stifter, published in 1857. Hebbel harshly criticized it, saying that anyone who finishes reading it will "be given the crown of Poland," and Nietzsche praised it as a "treasure of German prose" worthy of repeated reading. Drawing on the lineage of literary novels in a broad sense, this work depicts the development of the human soul. The process of the young Heinrich's awakening to learning, art, and love, and the story of his guide, Baron Liesach, and Mathilde's past love, are interwoven in the setting of a rose mansion, and are told in the "spiritual" climate of late summer, which is comparable to the summer days that come in late autumn, when winter and death are imminent. It is an elegy of old age lamenting the past of summer and youth, and a hymn to the youth nurtured by that elegy.

[Yasushi Taniguchi]

"Uda Goro's translation of "Late Summer" in two volumes (1949, 50, Sakurai Shoten)""Fujimura Hiroshi's translation of "World Literature Collection 31 Late Summer" (1979, Shueisha)"

[Reference] | Stifter

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

オーストリアの作家シュティフターの長編小説。1857年刊。ヘッベルによって、読み終えた者には「ポーランドの王冠を与える」と酷評され、ニーチェには、繰り返し読むに値する「ドイツ散文の宝」と賞賛されたこの作品は、広義の教養小説の系譜を引いて、人間の魂の発展を描いた。青年ハインリヒが学問・芸術・愛へと開眼してゆく過程と、導き手の男爵リーザハとマティルデの過去の恋の物語とが、バラの館(やかた)を舞台に互いに織り合わされながら、冬と死を控えた晩秋に訪れる、夏の日々にも比せられる晩夏の「精神的」風土のうちに語られる。それは過ぎ去った夏と青春を惜しむ老年の挽歌(ばんか)であり、その挽歌にはぐくまれた青春の賛歌でもある。

[谷口 泰]

『宇田五郎訳『晩夏』全二巻(1949、50・桜井書店)』『藤村宏訳『世界文学全集31 晩夏』(1979・集英社)』

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