Gustave Flaubert

…In his debut work, “Poems of Stéphane Mallarmé” (1912), he saw the important literary issues of the 20th century in this poet, who was still little understood at the time. This insight was demonstrated in his flexible understanding of new literary trends in the “Meditations” column he wrote for the magazine “NRF” from 1912 onwards. In “Gustave Flaubert” (1922), he vividly captured the secret of literature that connects the life of the writer to his work, in terms of its generation and continuity. The synthesis of these critical qualities and his skill in positioning the writer's work within the “Republic of Letters” through comparison and contrast based on his astonishing erudition can be seen in his posthumous work, “History of French Literature, from 1789 to the Present” (1936), which adopts a generational periodization. …

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…処女作《ステファヌ･マラルメの詩》(1912)で，当時まだ理解者のすくなかったこの詩人のなかに20世紀の重要な文学的課題を見抜いたその眼識は，1912年以降《NRF（エヌエルエフ）》誌で担当した時評欄〈省察〉では，文学の新しい動向への柔軟な理解として発揮される。また《ギュスターブ･フローベール》(1922)では，作家の生を作品へとつなぐ文学の秘密を生成･持続の相で鮮やかにとらえた。これらの批評家的特質と，驚くべき博識による比較対照により作家作品を〈文学共和国〉内に位置づける技巧の総合を，世代論的時代区分を採用した遺著《フランス文学史，1789年より今日まで》(1936)に見ることができる。…

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