Bruno Yasenskiy

A Soviet writer born in Poland. While studying at Krakow University, he published revolutionary-themed poems such as "Song of Hunger" (1922) and "The Tale of Yakov Shela" (1925). He fled to Paris due to the Communist Party's oppression, and published a fantastical political novel, "Paris Burning" (1928), in the newspaper "Humanité", which became an international bestseller, but incurred the wrath of the Poincaré government, and fled to the Soviet Union in 1929. In the Soviet Union, he wrote the satirical play "The Ball of the Mannequins" (1930) and the spy novel "Man Changes His Skin" (1932), but was arrested as a "Trotskyist" in 1937 and died in prison. He was rehabilitated in 1956, and his posthumous work, "The Conspiracy of the Indifferent," caused a stir.

[Takashi Egawa]

"The Conspiracy of the Indifferent, Volume 2 (1956, Aoki Shoten)" translated by Takashi Egawa and Yukio Kudo

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ポーランド生まれのソ連の作家。クラクフ大学在学中から革命的なテーマで『飢餓の歌』（1922）、『ヤコフ・シェラ譚(たん)』（1925）などの詩を発表。共産党弾圧によってパリに亡命、『ユマニテ』紙に空想的な政治小説『パリを焼く』（1928）を発表、国際的なベストセラーとなったが、ポアンカレ政府の怒りを買って、1929年ソ連に亡命した。ソ連では風刺的な戯曲『マネキンの舞踏会』（1930）、スパイ小説『人間は皮膚を変える』（1932）などを書いたが、37年「トロツキスト」として逮捕され、獄死した。56年に名誉を回復され、遺稿『無関心な人々の共謀』が反響をよんだ。

［江川　卓］

『江川卓・工藤幸雄訳『無関心な人々の共謀』2巻（1956・青木書店）』

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