Alexander Lange Kielland

Japanese: ヒェラン - ひぇらん(英語表記)Alexander Lange Kielland
Alexander Lange Kielland

Norwegian novelist. Also known as Kieran or Själan. Formerly known as Kierand in German. A naturalist writer active in the 1880s, he was strongly influenced by Kierkegaard, Mill, and Heine. Although he was from a wealthy middle-class family in Stavanger, one of Norway's major trading ports, his works show a strong critical attitude towards the class in which he grew up. His representative works include "Garman and Warsch" (1880) and "Captain Warsch" (1882), which express the class contrast between Stavanger's commercial aristocracy and the poor with sharp irony and add romantic descriptions of nature. Other socially critical trilogy works include "Marriage" (1883), "Fortuna" (1884), and "Midsummer Night" (1887). He served as mayor of Stavanger in 1891 and governor of Stavanger in 1902.

[Takafumi Yamaguchi]

[References] | Naturalism

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Japanese:

ノルウェーの小説家。キエラン、シェランとも。また、かつてはドイツ読みでキーラントともいった。1880年代に活躍した自然主義作家で、キルケゴール、ミル、ハイネなどの影響を強く受ける。ノルウェー有数の商港スタバンゲルの裕福な中産階級の出身であるが、彼の作品には自分の育った階級に対する強い批判の姿勢がうかがわれる。スタバンゲルの商業貴族と貧民との階級的コントラストを痛烈な皮肉で表現し、さらにロマンチックな自然描写を加えた『ガルマンとワーシュ』(1880)、『ワーシュ船長』(1882)などが代表作。そのほか、社会批判の三部作に『結婚』(1883)、『フォルトゥナ』(1884)、『夏至の夜』(1887)がある。91年にはスタバンゲル市長、1902年には州知事を歴任した。

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[参照項目] | 自然主義

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