American Son - Native Son

Japanese: アメリカの息子 - あめりかのむすこ(英語表記)Native Son
American Son - Native Son

A full-length novel by black American author R. Wright. Published in 1940. The story is about a young black man who accidentally kills a white girl and then, fearing his crime will be discovered, kills his own mistress, and is sent to the electric chair as a result of his trial. In the novel, the elderly lawyer Max argues that the crime committed by the defendant is the inevitable result of the American social system, which is also the author's own indictment of the American state. The great significance of this novel lies in the fact that, by creating the protagonist Bigger, he established the formula that black literature = protest novels.

[Isao Sekiguchi]

"American Son" translated by Fukuo Hashimoto, 2 volumes (Hayakawa Bunko)

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Japanese:

アメリカの黒人作家R・ライトの長編小説。1940年刊。誤って白人娘を殺し、さらにその犯罪の発覚を恐れて自分の情婦まで殺し、裁判の結果、電気椅子(いす)に送られる黒人青年の物語。作中、被告の犯した犯罪はアメリカの社会制度の必然的結果であると論証する老弁護士マックスの弁論は、そのまま作者自身のアメリカ国家への告発でもある。主人公ビガーを創造することによって、黒人文学=抗議小説という定式を確立したところに、この小説の大きな意味がある。

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『橋本福夫訳『アメリカの息子』全2冊(ハヤカワ文庫)』

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