ジャック・ロンドンの心霊ホラー二編

DOI
  • 横山 孝一
    群馬工業高等専門学校　人文科学系・英米文学

書誌事項

タイトル別名
  • Jack London's Ghost Stories
  • "Who Believes in Ghosts!" and "The Eternity of Forms" [A Japanese Translation]
  • ――「幽霊なんて信じるか!」と「死後も消えぬ姿」(翻訳)

説明

Jack London (1876-1916) is one of the greatest storytellers that the United States has ever produced. Although he died young at age 40, he wrote as many as 200 short stories, which were sold to various magazines at high prices and were very popular among readers in the early 20th century. He dealt with a variety of themes: the gold rush in the Klondike, socialism, alcoholism, boxing, hobos, the South Seas, and so on. Of course, it is natural that some of them have become out of fashion as well as out of date. It is surprising, however, that many of them have been regarded as masterpieces by both scholars and amateurs, and have gained the everlasting status in American literature.<BR> Interestingly, there are still such masterworks remaining unknown to the public even in his home country. Above all, Jack London's ghost stories should attract more attention: they are readable and brilliant. For this Review, two horror stories, "Who Believes in Ghosts!" and "The Eternity of Forms," were selected and translated into Japanese from The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, vol. 1 and vol. 3, edited by Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III, and I. Milo Shepard (Stanford UP, 1993).<BR> In Japan, where Jack London's The Call of the Wild and White Fang have been read in several, different translations since the Meiji era, this Japanese version of "Who Believes in Ghosts!" and "The Eternity of Forms" will be also enjoyed and appreciated fully. Indeed, we can consider that Jack London was a genius just because he wrote the former when he was only a high school student.

収録刊行物

  • 群馬高専レビュー

    群馬高専レビュー 27 (0), 1-15, 2009-03-12

    独立行政法人 国立高等専門学校機構群馬工業高等専門学校

詳細情報 詳細情報について

  • CRID
    1390854139455266688
  • NII論文ID
    130008163759
  • DOI
    10.51030/krev.27.0_1_2
  • ISSN
    24339776
    02886936
  • 本文言語コード
    ja
  • データソース種別
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
  • 抄録ライセンスフラグ
    使用可

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