Lord Jim

Japanese: ロード・ジム(英語表記)Lord Jim
Lord Jim
A full-length novel by British author J. Conrad. Published in 1900. Jim, a young navigator who abandoned his passengers to escape a shipwreck, is unable to accept that he is the kind of person he is, and so he hides in the depths of Malay, trying to escape his past by becoming the most respected man in the land. However, due to a cunning plan by the pirate Brown, he ends up betraying the trust of the local people, and he bravely goes to his death. An existential novel, extremely modern in both theme and method, in which the narrator Marlow exposes the beauty of self-idealization and the self-deception and egotism that lie behind it, relentlessly exploring the innermost depths of humanity.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
イギリスの作家J.コンラッドの長編小説。1900年刊。船客を捨てて難破船を逃れた若い航海士ジムは,自分がそのような人間であることを認めることができず,マレーの奥地に隠れ,その土地で最も尊敬される人間になることによって己の過去から逃れようとするが,海賊ブラウンの奸計のために現地人の信頼を裏切る結果になり,潔くみずから死に赴く。自己理想化の美しさとその裏にある自己欺瞞,エゴティズムを語り手マーローによってえぐり出させ,人間の内奥を仮借なく追求した,実存的で,テーマ,手法ともにきわめて現代的な小説。

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