Simo Matavulj

Japanese: マタブリ（英語表記）Simo Matavulj

1852‐1908
Yugoslav author. Born in Croatia. Unable to become a priest, he fled from a monastery and studied at a normal school in Zadar. While working as a middle school teacher in Montenegro and Serbia, he wrote short stories and novels and translated works by Maupassant and Zola. His novel, Friar Brunée Márquez (1892), is a masterpiece of realism depicting life in a Franciscan monastery on the Dalmatian coast, but is also full of tropical humor. In Uskok (The Righteous Robber) (1902), he praised the heroic life of the Montenegrin people, who were rich in local color.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1852‐1908
ユーゴスラビアの作家。クロアチアの生れ。聖職者になりきれず，修道院を逃亡，ザダルで師範学校に学ぶ。モンテネグロ，セルビアで中学教師をしながら短編，長編を書き，モーパッサン，ゾラらの作品を翻訳した。長編《勢力者ブルネ修道士》(1892)は，ダルマツィア沿岸にあるフランシスコ会修道院の生活を描いたリアリズムの傑作だが，南国的なユーモアにあふれている。《ウスコック(義賊)》(1902)では，地方色豊かなモンテネグロ人の英雄的生きざまを賛美した。

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