Quo Wadis - Quo Wadis

…He was also active in cultivating national consciousness in areas other than his creative writing, such as working hard to erect a statue of Mickiewicz in Warsaw, and was literally a representative conservative positivist intellectual of the late 19th century. However, it was his next work, Quo Vadis (1896), that made him world famous. This long novel, which depicts the persecution of Christians in Rome during the reign of Emperor Nero, was also a success as religious literature, and since its first introduction in Japan in the 1890s, there have been several translations of it. …

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…彼はまたワルシャワのミツキエビチ像建立に奔走するなど，創作以外の面でも民族意識の涵養に意欲的で，文字どおり19世紀後半を代表する保守実証主義の文化人であった。しかし彼の名を世界的に有名にしたのは次の《クオ･ウァディス》(1896)である。皇帝ネロの時代のローマで起きたキリスト教徒迫害を描いたこの長編は宗教文学としても成功をおさめ，日本にも明治30年代に初めて紹介されて以来，いくつもの翻訳が存在する。…

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