Obermann - Obermann

Japanese: 《オーベルマン》 - おーべるまん

...But his marriage was a failure, and he lived a lonely life. His masterpiece, Obermann (1804), is a novel written in the form of an epistolary letter to a friend by an unhappy young man, and is an autobiographical work that recounts the author's own inner experiences. The protagonist lives in the nature of the Alps and the outskirts of Paris, analyzes himself through literary and philosophical contemplation, and is troubled by the futility of human pleasure.

From Romanticism

…Rousseau's epistolary novel "New Héloïse" and his autobiographical work "The Confessions" are particularly representative. Autobiographical literature, which depicts the ups and downs of one's emotions and mental suffering, centered on love, by projecting them onto the protagonist, occupies a major position in Romantic literature, and is inherited by Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther," Chateaubriand's "Renée" (1802), Sénancourt's "Obermann" (1804), Constant's "Adolphe," and Musset's "Confessions of a Child of the Century" (1836). From this lineage, we can see the typical romantic soul suffering from the "mal du siècle," which feels a disconnect between the reality of a rapidly changing society and one's own existence, is not satisfied with love, and continues to seek something and escape from reality. …

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Japanese:

…だが結婚生活は失敗に終わり，生涯孤独に暮らす。代表作《オーベルマン》(1804)は，薄幸な青年が友人に書き送った書簡体の小説で，作者自身の内的体験を語った自伝的作品である。主人公はアルプスやパリ近郊の自然のなかに暮らし，文学的･哲学的考察を通じて自己を分析し，人間の快楽のむなしさを感じて思い悩む。…

【ロマン主義】より

…とりわけルソーの書簡体小説《新エロイーズ》や自伝的な作品《告白録》がその代表とされる。恋愛を中心とする自己の感情の起伏や精神的苦悩を主人公に仮託して描く自伝文学は，ロマン主義文学の中でも主要な位置を占め，ゲーテの《若きウェルターの悩み》，シャトーブリアンの《ルネ》(1802)，セナンクールの《オーベルマン》(1804)，コンスタンの《アドルフ》へと継承され，ミュッセの《世紀児の告白》(1836)へと受け継がれる。この系譜の中からは，激変する社会の現実と自己の存在との乖離（かいり）を感じ，愛に満たされず何かを求め続け現実から逃避していく〈世紀病mal du siècle〉を病んだロマン派的魂の典型が浮かび上がる。…

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