《Giant Room》 - Giant Room

Japanese: 《巨大な部屋》 - きょだいなへや
《Giant Room》 - Giant Room

…His father was a professor at Harvard University, and he himself graduated from the same university, but he is a rare representative of anti-intellectual poets in America. He volunteered to serve in World War I and joined a French ambulance service, but was imprisoned for some reason. He published his strange experience in the war novel "The Huge Room" (1922). After the war, he came into contact with the new literary movement in Paris along with Hemingway and others, and published a youthful and modern collection of lyric poems called "Tulips and Chimneys" (1923). …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "The Huge Room" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…ハーバード大学の教授を父にもち,彼自身も同大学の出身だが,アメリカではめずらしく反主知的な詩人の代表である。第1次大戦に志願してフランスの傷病者運搬隊に参加したが,なにかのいきちがいで投獄され,その奇妙な体験を戦争小説《巨大な部屋》(1922)で発表した。戦後はヘミングウェーたちとともにパリの新しい文学運動に接し,《チューリップと煙突》(1923)という若々しくてモダンな抒情詩集を出した。…

※「《巨大な部屋》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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