Pavel Petrovich Bazhov

Soviet novelist. Born into a family of mining engineers in the Urals, he graduated from the Perm Theological Seminary. He worked as a teacher and a journalist before beginning his career as a writer. He wrote collections of tales such as "Old Times in the Urals" (1924) and "The Malachite Box" (1939), based on the folklore of the Urals that he had collected himself. His fantastic characters who embody the hidden power of nature and his use of dialect with rich expressiveness give his works a unique lyricism. One story in "The Malachite Box," "The Stone Flower," is particularly famous and has been adapted for ballet, film, and opera. His other works include the autobiographical novel "The Green Pony" (1939) and the memoir "Far Away, Nearby" (1949).

[Yasui Yuko]

"Stone Flower and Seven Other Stories" translated by Kiyoshi Kansei and Kentaro Ikeda (Kadokawa Bunko)

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ソ連の小説家。ウラルの鉱山技師の家に生まれ、ペルミ神学校を卒業。教師、新聞記者を経て作家活動に入る。自ら収集したウラル地方の民間伝承をもとに『ウラルの昔』（1924）、『孔雀(くじゃく)石の小箱』（1939）などの説話物語集を書いた。大自然の秘めた力を体現するファンタスチックな登場人物、豊かな表現力を備えた方言の駆使は、作品に独特の叙情性を与えている。『孔雀石の小箱』のなかの一編『石の花』は、バレエ、映画、オペラなどにも脚色され、ことに有名である。ほかに自伝的小説『緑色の小馬』（1939）、回想記『遠きこと、近きこと』（1949）などがある。

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『神西清・池田健太郎訳『石の花他七篇』（角川文庫）』

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