Emilia Pardo Bazán

Japanese: パルド･バサン（英語表記）Emilia Pardo Bazán

1851‐1921
A Spanish female writer. An aristocrat with a strong desire for knowledge and linguistic skills, she was quick to adopt foreign literary trends, from naturalism to symbolism, modernism, and the Russian literature of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and popularized them in Spain, but at heart she was a conservative Christian writer. In her critique Problems of the Day (1883), she introduced Zola's theory of fiction, and put this theory into practice in her masterpiece, The House of Urroa (1886), which depicts the decadence of a provincial aristocracy against the backdrop of a changing society. In addition to her 40-year career as a writer, she also contributed to her fame as the first woman to become a full professor at a university.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1851‐1921
スペインの女流作家。貴族で，旺盛な知識欲と語学力をもち，自然主義をはじめ象徴主義，モダニズム，トルストイやドストエフスキーのロシア文学まで，諸外国の文学動向を鋭敏にとり入れてスペインに普及させたが，本質は保守的なキリスト教作家である。評論《今日的問題》(1883)でゾラの小説理論を紹介し，これを実践した《ウリョーアの館》(1886)は，変動期の社会を背景に田舎貴族の退廃を描いた，彼女の代表作。40年余の文筆活動に加え，女性で初めて大学正教授になったことも名声に寄与した。

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