『ロモラ』試論
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概要
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Romola is, without doubt, not successful as a realistic novel, though it has compelled the author to pay a great deal of pains. After reading the novel closely twice the writer has got to the conclusion that the most striking elements of the historical novel consist in the characterization of Tito Melema as an evil-doer and the revelation of George Eliot's own philosophy of renunciation. Therefore, considering the fact that we have perhaps only a small number of readers in Japan who will find the novel worth the trouble of reading it, the writer has endeavoured to show rather minutely the process of the formation of Tito's character. Then he traces the influence Fra Girolamo Savonarola exerts on the course of the heroine's later life. The writer also explains in detail some elements he has found worth mentioning, such as G. H. Lewes's influence on the composition of the work itself, the use by the author of some of the fundamental fictional techniques-one of them being the author's technique of overlapping several times the two heroines, Romola and Tessa, etc. By the way, the present essay is to form a chapter of the book in Japanese on George Eliot which is now being prepared by the present writer.
- 1973-09-01