Wilhelm Raabe

Japanese: ラーベ - らーべ(英語表記)Wilhelm Raabe
Wilhelm Raabe

German novelist. Born in a rural area of ​​the Duchy of Braunschweig. After working in a bookstore for a time, he became an auditor at the University of Berlin. He started writing novels on the side, and published Chronicles of Sparrow Alley in 1856. This debut work, which depicts the life of a working-class Berliner in a humorous style, already displays Rabe's unique and skillful narrative technique. From 1862 to 1870, he lived in Stuttgart for eight years and wrote the so-called "Stuttgart Trilogy": The Starving Pastor (1864), Ab Terfan (1867), and The Corpse Carrier (1870). The Starving Pastor, which depicts a young man who is spiritually hungry and pursues his ideals, and who studies hard to become a pastor, was previously considered Rabe's masterpiece, but after the Second World War, the previously overlooked works he wrote after returning to Braunschweig came into the limelight, and it was here that Rabe's true value was discovered. In particular, in his works "Manju" (1891) and "The Vogelsang Archive" (1896), he sharply criticized the times by using as protagonists outsider-type characters who do not adapt to the changing times and instead try to live true to themselves.

[Fujio Ishii]

"Takeo Ito's translation of "Sparrow Alley Chronicles" (Iwanami Bunko)"

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

ドイツの小説家。ブラウンシュワイク公国の片田舎(かたいなか)に生まれる。一時書店勤めをしたのちベルリン大学の聴講生となる。そのかたわら小説を書き始め、1856年に『雀(すずめ)横丁年代記』を上梓(じょうし)したが、ベルリンの下町生活をユーモアあふれる筆致で描いたこの処女作は、すでにラーベ独特の巧みな物語技法を示している。1862年から8年間シュトゥットガルトに住み、『飢(う)えの牧師』(1864)、『アブ・テルファン』(1867)、『死体運搬車』(1870)のいわゆる「シュトゥットガルト三部作」を書いた。精神的に飢え理想を求めて苦学したすえ、ついに牧師になる青年を描いた『飢えの牧師』が、以前はラーベの代表作と目されていたが、第二次世界大戦後に至りブラウンシュワイクに帰ってからの、それまで看過されていた作品群が脚光を浴びて、むしろ、ここにラーベの真価がみいだされるようになった。とくに『まんじゅう』(1891)と『フォーゲルザングの記録文書』(1896)において、時代の変化に順応せず、あくまで自己に忠実に生きようとする、アウトサイダー的人間を主人公にして、鋭い時代批判を行っている。

[石井不二雄]

『伊藤武雄訳『雀横丁年代記』(岩波文庫)』

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