Studs Lonigan (English)

…He was born and raised in Chicago's South Side, where Irish immigrants live, and after working in various jobs, he began writing novels while attending the University of Chicago. Using the lives of the poor in the area as material, he published three works, Studs Lonigan (1932), The Youth of Studs Lonigan (1934), and Judgment Day (1935), which depict the downfall of a boy in a big city at a time when the street and gambling halls had replaced the home, school, and church as educational institutions, in a meticulous Dreiserian naturalistic style and a stream-of-consciousness technique modeled after Joyce. In contrast to these masterpieces, he also published a five-part series, beginning with The World I Didn't Make (1936), which follows the fate of Danny O'Neill, a protagonist with the mental strength to rebel against his environment. …

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…シカゴのアイルランド系移民が住むサウス･サイドに生まれ育ち，雑多な職業を経て入学したシカゴ大学に在学中から小説を書きはじめた。同地区の貧民の生活を素材に，家庭や学校や教会に代わって街頭や賭博場が教育機関となった当時の大都会の少年の転落の姿を，くどいほど克明なドライサー的自然主義の手法に，ジョイスに倣った〈意識の流れ〉の技法をも加えて描いた三部作《スタッズ･ロニガンStuds Lonigan(若きロニガン)》(1932)，《スタッズ･ロニガンの青春時代》(1934)，《審判の日》(1935)を発表。この代表作とは逆に，環境に反逆する精神的強さをもった主人公ダニー･オニールを設定してその運命をたどった《私の作らなかった世界》(1936)に始まる長編五部作も同工異曲である。…

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