La condition humaine (English)

...He further increased his literary fame with The Conquerors (1928), a reportage-style depiction of the Guangzhou Commune in China, and The Kingly Way (1930), an adventure novel about ruins in a jungle. In his Prix Goncourt-winning The Human Condition (1933), he used cinematic techniques to vividly depict the 1927 Shanghai coup, in which the Nationalist Party suddenly launched a campaign to suppress the Chinese Communist Party, and showed an attitude closer to communism. However, his protagonists are generally nihilistic adventurers who do not believe in ideology, heroes who risk their human dignity in dangerous actions against the absurdity of death that eats away at us from within, and who take on the challenge of revolution while questioning its doctrine. ...

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…さらに中国の広州コミューンをルポ風に描いた《征服者》(1928)，密林の中の遺跡をめぐる冒険小説《王道》(1930)を発表して文名を高めた。ゴンクール賞受賞作《人間の条件La condition humaine》(1933)では，中国国民党が突如中国共産党弾圧の挙に出た1927年の上海クーデタを，映画的手法を駆使して活写し，いっそう共産主義に近い姿勢を示した。しかし，彼の主人公たちは概して，イデオロギーを信じない虚無的冒険家で，われわれを内部からむしばむ死という不条理に抗して，危険な行動に人間の尊厳を賭け，革命の教義を疑いながら革命の遂行に挺身する種類の英雄である。…

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