Gippius - Gippius (English notation)

A Russian female poet and novelist. Together with her husband Merezhkovsky, she was a leading poet of the early Symbolist movement, and her salon was famous as a gathering place for Symbolist writers. Her poems are full of self-questioning about complex and difficult abstract issues, and as her representative collection of poems (1904) shows, many of her works combine intellectual play with lyricism. She also displayed her diverse talents, such as the novel The Devil's Doll (1911), which was strongly influenced by Dostoevsky, and critiques, plays, and essay collection Living Faces (1925), which she wrote under the male pseudonym Anton Kleiny. She was a fierce opponent of the October Revolution, and went into exile with her husband, dying in Paris.

[Yasui Yuko]

"The Devil's Doll" translated by Yoshiharu Murate (included in "20th Century Russian Novels 3", 1972, Hakusuisha)

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ロシアの女流詩人、小説家。夫メレジコフスキーとともに初期象徴派の代表詩人として活躍、そのサロンは象徴派文人たちのたまり場として有名だった。彼女の詩は複雑で難解な抽象的問題についての自問自答に満ち、代表的な『詩集』（1904）が示すように、知的遊びと叙情性を結び合わせた作品が多い。またドストエフスキーの影響を強く受けた小説『悪魔の人形』（1911）や、アントン・クライニーという男性の筆名で書いた評論、戯曲、エッセイ集『生ける顔』（1925）など多彩な才能を示す。十月革命に激しく敵対し、夫とともに亡命、パリで没した。

［安井侑子］

『村手義治訳『悪魔の人形』（『20世紀のロシア小説3』所収・1972・白水社）』

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