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Apr 28, 20201 min read

記憶に残るフレーズ（Rudyard Kipling)

Kipling is the only English writer of our time who has added phrases to the language. (Rudyard Kipling, 1942) ノーベル文学賞も受賞したイギリス人作家キップリングに対...

Apr 27, 20201 min read

英国？イギリス？イングランド？解題

One striking fact about English literature during the present century is the extent to which it has been dominated by foreigners- for...

Apr 22, 20201 min read

英国？イギリス？イングランド？(Arthur Koestler)

One striking fact about English literature during the present century is the extent to which it has been dominated by foreigners- for...

Apr 21, 20201 min read

歴史の書き換え　解題

Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered. (Notes on Nationalism, 1945) 全ての国粋主義者は過去というのは変えられるという考えに付きまとわれてい...

Apr 20, 20201 min read

歴史の書き換え（Notes on Nationalism)

Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered. (Notes on Nationalism, 1945) 『ナショナリズム覚え書き』からの一文。オーウェルはこのエッセイの中で、...

Apr 19, 20204 min read

プロとしての心構え－『字幕屋のニホンゴ渡世奮闘記』by 太田直子を読んで－

同僚から、語学に携わるものとしての必読書として本書を薦められた。著者の故太田直子氏は字幕翻訳家である。通訳、翻訳の世界の物書きであれば、ロシア語通訳の大御所米原万里の名前をまず思い浮かべるが、著者の歯に衣着せぬ物言い、リズム、歯切れの良さは彼女を彷彿とさせた。何よりも、著...

Apr 19, 20202 min read

国民的作家ディケンズについて　解題

Dickens is one of those writers who are well worth stealing. Even the burial of his body in Westminster Abbey was a species of theft, if...

Apr 18, 20201 min read

国民的作家ディケンズについて（Charles Dickens)

Dickens is one of those writers who are well worth stealing. Even the burial of his body in Westminster Abbey was a species of theft, if...

Apr 16, 20201 min read

統治することの虚しさ　解題

And my whole life, every white man's life in the East, was one long struggle not to be laughed at. (Shooting an Elephant, 1936)...