Molnár Ferenc (English spelling)

Japanese: モルナール - もるなーる(英語表記)Molnár Ferenc
Molnár Ferenc (English spelling)

Hungarian playwright and novelist. Born in Budapest, he was of Jewish descent and started out as a writer of humorous short stories, but he gained a place in the theater world with the success of his play The Devil (1907), and gained international fame with Liliom (1909) and The Guard (1910). He went on to write many more plays, including The Swan (1920) and Olympia (1928), which became popular in theaters around the world, but he fled to the United States to escape Nazi oppression, and died in New York after World War II. He also wrote a great number of novels, and his best-known work is the children's novel The Boys of Pearl Street (1907). His World War I war diary The Memoirs of a War Correspondent (1916) is also one of his masterpieces. Molnar's plays have been frequently performed in Japan since his first performance of "Liliom" at the Tsukiji Little Theatre in 1927, and "The Boys from Pearl Street" is also widely read.

[Tokunaga Yasumoto]

[References] | The Boys of Pearl Street | Liliom

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

ハンガリーの劇作家、小説家。ブダペスト生まれのユダヤ系作家で、ユーモラスな短編の書き手として出発したが、戯曲『悪魔』(1907)の成功で劇壇に知られ、『リリオム』(1909)と『近衛(このえ)兵』(1910)によって国際的な名声を得た。その後も、『白鳥』(1920)、『オリンピア』(1928)など多数の戯曲を書いて、世界各国の劇壇で人気を博したが、ナチスの圧迫を避けてアメリカへ亡命し、第二次世界大戦後ニューヨークで客死した。小説もかなり多く、なかでも少年小説『パール街の少年たち』(1907)がもっともよく知られている。また、第一次大戦の従軍日記『ある従軍記者の思い出』(1916)も代表作の一つである。モルナールの戯曲は、日本の劇壇でも、築地(つきじ)小劇場の『リリオム』(1927公演)以来しばしば上演され、『パール街の少年たち』も広く読まれている。

[徳永康元]

[参照項目] | パール街の少年たち | リリオム

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