Hémon, Louis

Japanese: エモン(英語表記)Hémon, Louis
Hémon, Louis
Born: October 12, 1880 in Brest
[Died] July 8, 1913. Canadian author born near Chapleau, Ontario. After working as a journalist for several years in England, he moved to Canada in 1911. After experiencing winter life on the French Canadian frontier, he finished Maria Chapdelaine (The White Virgin) early in 1913, and died in a train accident that summer. This beautiful romance, about people living in the Canadian wilderness, was serialized in the Paris magazine Le Temps the following year and received great acclaim, and was published in Montreal in 1915. His other works include Battling Malone, the Pugiliste (1926) and Monsieur Ripois et la Némésis (50).

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Japanese:
[生]1880.10.12. ブレスト
[没]1913.7.8. オンタリオ,シャプロー近郊
フランス生れのカナダの作家。イギリスで数年間ジャーナリストとして生活したのち,1911年カナダへ渡った。フランス系カナダの開拓地で冬の生活を体験したのち『白き処女地』 Maria Chapdelaineを 13年早々に書上げ,その年の夏に鉄道事故で没した。カナダの大自然に生きる人々を題材にしたこの美しいロマンは,翌年パリの『ル・タン』誌に連載され大好評を博し,15年にモントリオールで出版された。その他の著作『拳闘家バットリング・マローン』 Battling Malone,pugiliste (1926) ,『リポア氏と復讐の女神』 Monsieur Ripois et la Némésis (50) 。

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