Aleksandr Vasil'evich Sukhovo-Kobylin

Japanese: スホボ･コブイリン（英語表記）Aleksandr Vasil’evich Sukhovo‐Kobylin

1817‐1903
Russian playwright. Born into an old Moscow aristocratic family, he graduated from Moscow University's Department of Physics and Mathematics, and studied philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin. He was later arrested and detained on suspicion of murdering his French mistress, and although the trial was suspended due to insufficient evidence, the mental anguish he endured was immeasurable, and the suspicions were never cleared. After the incident, while studying Hegelian philosophy, he wrote a trilogy of plays that are considered masterpieces in the tradition of Gogol. These are the comedy "Kretinsky's Wedding" (1854), in which a cunning aristocrat deceives a good landowner father and daughter; "The Incident" (1861), a cynical satire that depicts the corruption behind the court system and the tragedy of a foolish but proud landowner; and "The Death of Tarelkin" (1869), a grotesque farce that depicts the fate of a conman who tries to escape the hands of his superiors and debt collectors by faking his own death.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1817‐1903
ロシアの劇作家。モスクワの古い家柄の貴族の家に生まれ，モスクワ大学物理数学科を卒業後，ハイデルベルク，ベルリン両大学で哲学を学んだ。後にフランス人の愛人殺害の嫌疑で逮捕･拘禁され，証拠不十分で事件の審理は停止されたものの，精神的苦痛は計りがたく，疑惑はついに晴らされずに終わった。事件後，ヘーゲル哲学研究のかたわら，ゴーゴリの伝統を受け継ぐ傑作とされる戯曲三部作を書いた。狡猾な貴族が善良な地主父娘を欺く喜劇《クレチンスキーの婚礼》(1854)，裁判制度裏面の腐敗と愚かだが誇り高い地主の悲劇を描く冷笑的風刺劇《事件》(1861)，自分が死んだと偽って上役や債鬼の手を逃れようとする詐欺師の運命を描くグロテスクな笑劇《タレルキンの死》(1869)がそれである。

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