Gesellschaftsroman

Japanese: Gesellschaftsroman
Gesellschaftsroman

…He wrote 18 novels intensively in the last 20 years of his life, including “Beyond Sin” (translated in Japanese as “Beyond Sin”). These novels are called “social novels (Gesellschaftsroman)” and depict the internal collapse of aristocratic society and the transition to the new era of civil society from the perspective of a true realist who understands human weakness and looks at the situation with a cool-headed observer who is not part of either of them. And his novelistic technique of focusing on the conversations of the characters and depicting their personalities and outlook on life was considered the pinnacle of narrative art and was inherited by his successor, Thomas Mann. …

*Some of the terminology referenced in "Gesellschaftsroman" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…邦訳《罪のかなた》)など,18編の小説を晩年の20年間に集中的に書いた。これらは〈社会小説Gesellschaftsroman〉と称されるもので,貴族社会が内部崩壊し,新興の市民社会の時代へ移りゆく姿が,そのいずれにもくみせぬ冷徹な観察者の目で眺められ,人間の弱さにも理解を持つ真のリアリストの立場から描かれている。そして登場人物の会話を中心に据え,それによってその人物の性格や人生観に至るまで描き込む小説手法は語りの芸術の最高峰とされ,次代のトーマス・マンに継承された。…

※「Gesellschaftsroman」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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