アイルランド短編小説の軌跡 : 第4章ショーン・オフェイロンの短編

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This is the fourth chapter of "How Have the Irish Short Stories Developed?" starting from George Moore's The Untilled Field followed by James Joyce's Dubliners and by Lian O'Flaherty's Spring Sowing. This chapter deals with Sean O'Faolain's first collection, Midsummer Night Madness which consists of seven short stories. O'Faolain came of age in a politically turbulent period of Irish history known as "the Troubles." His experience both as a bombmaker and an Irish Irregular gave him a cause to Irish-ize his name to Sean O'Faolain from John Francis Whalen and also various sources for his short story writing. Seven stories in Midsummer Night Madness are based on this background. This paper analyses how O'Faolain succeeds Moore, Joyce and O'Flaherty and in what sense the works in his first collection are significant compared with his predecessors in the brief history of the development of Irish short stories, referring to a letter from the author in 1982.