Ivy Compton-Burnett

Japanese: コンプトン･バーネット（英語表記）Ivy Compton‐Burnett

1892‐1969
British female novelist. Born in London, her father was a famous doctor, her mother a second wife, and she grew up in a gloomy household where two sisters even committed suicide together. She studied classics at the University of London. She first attracted attention with her second novel, Masters and Lords (1925), which came out 14 years after her debut novel, Dolores (1911), and established her reputation with Husbands and Wives (1931), Sons and Daughters (1937), and Servants and Maids (1947), and continued to publish works until she was in her 70s. All of her works are based on middle- and upper-class family life in the so-called Edwardian era from the late 19th century to the early 20th century, and depict the crimes and evils of oppressive patriarchs, such as murder, adultery, and theft, which are wrought within family members through their desire to dominate and their malice.These works are told in a comical manner through witty dialogue, without any specific locations or the faces of the protagonists being identified, but at the heart of them lies terrible pain and terror.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1892‐1969
イギリスの女流小説家。ロンドンに生まれ，父は有名な医師で，母は後妻，姉妹の心中まであった陰惨な家庭に育った。ロンドン大学で古典学を専攻。処女作《ドローレス》(1911)の後14年たって出た第2作《師と主たち》(1925)で初めて注目され，《夫と妻》(1931)，《息子と娘》(1937)，《召使と女中》(1947)などでその地位を確立し，その後も70歳過ぎまで作品を発表し続けた。彼女の作品はすべて19世紀末から20世紀初頭までのいわゆるエドワード時代の中流･上層階級の家庭生活に材を取り，圧制的な家長の支配欲，悪意が家族の間にひき起こす殺人，姦通，盗みなどの罪と悪が，特定の場所も主人公の顔形も定かならぬまま，ひたすら才気に満ちた会話で喜劇的に語られ，その底にはすさまじいほどの痛みと恐怖がひそめられている。

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