Lieutenant Gustl

Japanese: 《グストル少尉》 - ぐすとるしょうい
Lieutenant Gustl

…In his novels, too, he showed his skill as a diagnostician of fin de siècle Viennese society. In particular, in the short story Lieutenant Gustl (1900), the protagonist's thoughts over one night are expressed entirely in an "interior monologue," and the fragmented thoughts vividly express the meaningless life of an Austrian lieutenant and his world of thought trapped by social prejudice. This thorough use of interior monologue already indicates the direction of modern novels, which are immersion in the stream of consciousness and the disintegration of the narrative world. …

*Some of the terminology references "Lieutenant Gustl" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…小説でも彼は世紀末ウィーン社会の診断者たる腕を見せる。なかでも短編《グストル少尉》(1900)では,主人公の一夜の想念が全編〈内的独白〉によって表現され,断片的な思考のなかに,オーストリア帝国少尉の無意味な生活と社会的偏見にとらわれた思考世界があざやかに表される。このような徹底した内的独白の使用に,意識の流れへの没入と物語世界の解体という現代小説の方向がすでに示されるのである。…

※「《グストル少尉》」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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