アイルランド短編小説の軌跡 : 第三章リーアム・オフラハティの短編(岸英司名誉教授追悼記念号)

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This is the third chapter of "How have the Irish short stories developed?" starting from George Moore's The Untilled Field followed by James Joyce's Dubliners. This chapter deals with Liam O'Flaherty's first collection, Spring Sowing which consists of 32 short stories. O'Flaherty was lucky enough to meet Edward Garnett, the most influential publisher reader of his day, who advised the young writer to write short stories about Aran Islands. Following Garnett, O'Flaherty wrote sketches and stories about nature, peasants and animals in Inishmore, his birthplace. This paper is to analyse how the writer succeeds Moore and Joyce and in what sense his output is significant compared with his predecessors, and as the most prominent among such contemporaries as Sean O'Faolain and Frank O'Connor, and again in the brief history of the development of Irish short stories, referring to the letter the author sent to me in 1982.