Blue Flower - Aoihana (English spelling) Heinrich von Ofterdingen

Japanese: 青い花 - あおいはな(英語表記)Heinrich von Ofterdingen
Blue Flower - Aoihana (English spelling) Heinrich von Ofterdingen

An unfinished novel by the German Romantic poet Novalis. Published in 1802. The original title, Heinrich von Ofterdingen, is the name of the protagonist. One morning, Heinrich dreams of a blue flower and is drawn to it. Eventually, he sets out on a journey, meeting various people, including a girl whose features resemble the blue flower, and undergoing a series of mysterious experiences. This is a journey of longing in search of the blue flower he saw in his dreams, and also a journey to become a poet himself. Novalis learned a lot from Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, which was published at the time, but was dissatisfied with the lack of poetry in this work, and so this novel is an ambitious work by Novalis, who inserted mysterious fairy tales and made the whole work poetic and fairy tale-like.

[Fumiko Imaizumi]

"The Blue Flowers" translated by Takeo Komaki (Iwanami Bunko)

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

ドイツ・ロマン派の詩人ノバーリスの未完の小説。1802年刊。原題『ハインリッヒ・フォン・オフターディンゲン』は主人公の名。ハインリッヒはある朝、青い花の夢をみて心ひかれる。やがて彼は旅に出て、青い花に面ざしの似た少女やさまざまな人に出会い、不思議な経験を重ねていくが、それは、夢にみた青い花を求める憧憬(しょうけい)の旅であり、自身が詩人となりゆくための旅路であった。この小説は、当時出版されたゲーテの『ウィルヘルム・マイスター』に多くを学びつつも、それが詩的でないことに不満を抱いたノバーリスの意欲的な作品で、不思議な童話が挿入されるなど、全体が詩的、童話的となっている。

[今泉文子]

『小牧健夫訳『青い花』(岩波文庫)』

出典 小学館 日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)について 情報 | 凡例

<<:  Aoi Festival - Aoi Festival

>>:  Lady Aoi

Recommend

sponsor

〘 noun 〙 (sponsor)① Someone who provides funds for...

Grunion

...Japanese hull fish also swarm to reproduce a f...

State Shinto - Kokkashinto

It is a form of Shinto, and is a de facto state r...

Futabaran - Futabaran

A small terrestrial orchid (illustration) with two...

Owned - Any

〘Conjunction〙 (The verb “ari (existence)” is combi...

Clematis apiifolia (English spelling) Clematis apiifolia

…[Michio Tamura]. … *Some of the terminology that...

Ghost World - Ghost World

...In 1926, he published his first collection of ...

Solenodon paradoxus (English spelling) Solenodonparadoxus

…[Tadaaki Imaizumi]. … *Some of the terminology t...

Chuka [village] - Chuka

A village in Maniwa County, at the northern tip of...

Shigure Hasegawa

Playwright. Real name Yasu. Born in Nihonbashi, T...

Robe - Morning

A garment worn by monks. A transliteration of the...

Aikman

Dutch physiologist. He obtained his medical docto...

Rostov-Suzdal Principality (English spelling)

A principality of medieval Russia that existed in ...

Callioplana marginata (English spelling) Callioplanamarginata

...The Ijima flatworm Stylochus ijimai and the Fl...

Katsuura River

This river originates in the eastern part of the T...