Bell

…His debut work was “Sartre, the Romantic Rationalist” (1953), which criticized the solipsism of Sartre’s philosophy. His first novel, “In the Net” (1954), was well-received, and since then, from his early works “Castles of Sand” (1957) and “The Bell” (1958) to “Ocean, Ocean” (1978) and “Nuns and Soldiers” (1980), he has published more than 20 full-length works almost every year, many of which have been translated into Japanese. He takes the position that reality does not consist of the compact order that humans desire, but that humans are all opaque, mysterious, and independent beings that cannot be reduced to anything else. …

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…処女作はサルトルの哲学の唯我性を批判した《サルトル，ロマンティックな合理主義者》(1953)。処女小説《網の中》(1954)で認められ，その後，初期の《砂の城》(1957)，《鐘》(1958)から《海よ，海》(1978)，《尼僧たちと兵士たち》(1980)などに至るまで，力作長編をほぼ毎年，すでに20冊以上も発表しており，その多くが邦訳されている。現実は人間の望むようなこぢんまりした秩序で成り立つものではなく，人間はすべて不透明で，神秘的な，ほかのなにものにも還元できない独立の存在であるとする立場をとる。…

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