Saints Nouvelles (English)

Japanese: サン･ヌーベル･ヌーベル（英語表記）Les cent nouvelles nouvelles

The title means "New Hundred Tales," and it is a collection of short stories that was completed around 1456-61, or at the latest by the death of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy (1467). It is said to have been told around the fireside by 35 narrators who were real people around the duke and his associates, and one anonymous editor, but the consistency of the notes and style in the work suggests that it was written by a single author or editor. In form, it imitates Boccaccio's Decameron, which was usually translated as "Sain Nouvelle" (One Hundred Tales) at the time, but the themes, narrative style, and character development are far from that of the Decameron, and it owes more to the short stories of fabliaux and the Florentine writer Poggio Bracciolini.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

題は《新百話》の意で，1456‐61年ころ，遅くともブルゴーニュ公フィリップ善良公の没年(1467)までに成立した小話集。公とその周辺に実在した35人の語り手と1人の無名の編者によって炉辺で語られたことになっているが，作品中の詞書，文体の統一性より見て1人の作者ないし編者によるものと推定される。形式的には当時《サン･ヌーベル(百話)》と訳されるのが常であったボッカッチョの《デカメロン》を模倣してはいるが，主題，語り口，人物の造形はそれにほど遠く，ファブリオーやフィレンツェの作家ポッジョ･ブラッチョリーニの小話により多くを負う。

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