Jean Paul

Japanese: ジャン･パウル（英語表記）Jean Paul

1763‐1825
German novelist. His real name was Johann Paul Friedrich Richter. Born in Unsiedel, a small town in northern Bavaria, he studied theology at the University of Leipzig after the death of his father (a teacher, later a pastor), but gave up continuing his studies due to poverty and returned to his hometown to earn a living as a private tutor. During this time, he anonymously published a collection of satirical sketches, The Lawsuit in Greenland, in 1783, and decided to become a writer. After that, he wrote full-length novels, most of which were biographical in nature. However, even though they were biographical, motifs such as suspended animation, masks, and doppelgangers (alter selves) appear consistently, and pastoral descriptions, comical events, grotesque scenes, and fantastical dreamlike experiences alternate, frequently interrupted by the narrator's comments.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1763‐1825
ドイツの小説家。本名リヒターJohann Paul Friedrich Richter。バイエルン北部の小さな町ウンジーデルに生まれ，父(教師，のち牧師)の死後ライプチヒ大学で神学を学ぶが，貧窮のため学業の継続を断念，故郷近くにもどり家庭教師などをして生計を立てる。その間1783年に風刺的スケッチ集《グリーンランドの訴訟》を匿名で出版，作家を志す。以後，ほとんどが伝記的な形をとった長編小説を書くが，伝記的とはいえ，仮死，仮面，ドッペルゲンガー(もう一人の自分)といったモティーフが一貫してあらわれ，牧歌的な描写，こっけいなできごと，グロテスクな場面，幻想的な夢三昧などが交代し，それが語り手のコメントによって頻繁に中断される。

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