Alemán, Mateo

Japanese: アレマン（英語表記）Alemán， Mateo

Born: 1547, near Seville
Died in 1614? Mexican-Spanish author. Author of Guzmán de Alfarache (1599, 1604), a classic villain novel. This work is a valuable clue to the author's life. Born to a prison surgeon, he graduated from the University of Seville and studied medicine at the universities of Salamanca and Alcalá. During the reign of Philip II, he served as a tax collector and auctioneer, but he seems to have become dissolute and lived a wandering life in poverty, and was once imprisoned for not being able to repay his debts. The first part of Guzmán was a great success, selling over 50,000 copies in five years, and was translated into French, English, Italian, and other languages, promoting the popularity of villain novels. However, the widespread piracy did not help his poverty, and he was soon imprisoned again. The second part was published in Lisbon in 1604, but before the third part was published, he traveled to Mexico with his wife and children in 1608, where he died.

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Japanese:

[生]1547. セビリア近郊
[没]1614?　メキシコ
スペインの作家。悪者小説の典型『グスマン・デ・アルファラチェ』 Guzmán de Alfarache (1599，1604) の作者。この作品が作者の生涯を知る有力な手掛りとなっている。監獄の外科医の子に生れ，セビリアの大学を出たあとサラマンカとアルカラの大学で医学を学んだ。フェリペ2世時代に徴税吏や競売の後見人をつとめたが，自堕落に流れ貧窮のうちに放浪生活が続いたようで，借金が返せずに投獄されたこともある。『グスマン』の第1部は5年間で5万部をこえるほどの大成功を収め，フランス語，英語，イタリア語などにも訳されて悪者小説の流行を促したほどだが，海賊出版が多くて貧乏の歯止めにはならず，まもなく再び投獄された。第2部はリスボンで 1604年に出版されたが，第3部が出版にいたらぬまま，08年，妻子を伴ってメキシコに渡り，この地で没した。

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