Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin

Soviet novelist. Born in Saratov in the Volga region. His father was a small merchant born of serfdom, and his mother was the daughter of a teacher. After graduating from Moscow's Higher Commercial School, he studied in Nuremberg, Germany. After the revolution, he returned to Russia and became a member of the literary group "Serapion Brothers," and began his work as a "companion writer." He attracted attention with his novel "Cities and Years" (1924), which explored the problems of intellectuals living in turbulent history, set in Germany and Russia in the pre-revolutionary period. After the novels "Brothers" (1928) and "The Seizing of Europe" (1933-35), he continued to write the three-part novel series "First Joys" (1945), "An Extraordinary Summer" (1948), and "The Bonfire, Part I" (1961) after World War II, depicting the modern history of 20th century Russia on a grand scale.

[Tadao Mizuno]

"Masao Ozawa's translation of "Abnormal Summer" in 3 volumes (1952, Sanichi Shobo)" "Seiichiro Kudo's translation of "Cities and Years" (included in "Complete Works of World Literature 29" 1967, Shueisha)"

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ソ連の小説家。ボルガ地方のサラトフに生まれる。父は農奴出の小商人で、母は教師の娘。モスクワ高等商業卒業後ドイツのニュルンベルクに留学。革命後帰国し、文学グループ「セラピオン兄弟」に所属、「同伴者作家」として活動を始めた。革命前期のドイツとロシアを舞台に、激動する歴史のなかに生きる知識人の問題を追求した長編『都市と歳月』（1924）で注目された。長編『兄弟』（1928）、『ヨーロッパの奪取』（1933～35）に続き、第二次世界大戦後は長編三部作『最初の喜び』（1945）、『異常な夏』（1948）、『かがり火・第一部』（1961）を書き続け、20世紀ロシアの現代史を雄大な規模で描いた。

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『小沢政雄訳『異常な夏』全3巻（1952・三一書房）』▽『工藤精一郎訳『都市と歳月』（『世界文学全集29』所収・1967・集英社）』

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