Hans Fallada

Japanese: ファラダ - ふぁらだ(英語表記)Hans Fallada
Hans Fallada

German novelist. His real name was Rudolf Ditzen. He became an instant best-seller with his novel, "What Will You Do, O Poor Folk?" (1932), which portrayed the homelessness of ordinary people in the final days of the Weimar Republic. He remained in Germany during the Nazi era, and published a succession of excellent works that expressed a passive resistance attitude, such as "Once I Have Tasted Bad Food" (1934) and "Wolf Among Wolves" (1937). However, he eventually became an alcoholic and was sent to a reformatory. After the war, he completed "Everybody Dies Alone" (1947), just before his death, and it movingly depicts a lonely resistance to Nazi rule and its failure.

[Hiroshi Ikeda]

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Japanese:

ドイツの小説家。本名Rudolf Ditzen。ワイマール共和国末期の小市民のよるべなさを描いた長編『細民よ、どうする』(1932)で、一躍ベストセラー作家となった。ナチス時代も国内にとどまり、『一度くさいメシを食ったものは』(1934)、『狼(おおかみ)どものなかの狼』(1937)など、消極的な抵抗の姿勢を込めた佳作を相次いで発表したが、ついにアルコール中毒にかかり、矯正施設に入れられた。敗戦後、死の直前に完成した『だれもがひとりで死んでいく』(1947)は、ナチス支配に対する孤独な抵抗とその挫折(ざせつ)を感動的に描いている。

[池田浩士]

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