著者

前田 一平

出版者

鳴門教育大学

雑誌

基盤研究(C)

巻号頁・発行日

2007

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米国ワシントン州シアトルの旧・日本街を現地調査し、第二次世界大戦後の歴史に埋もれたシアトル日本街の歴史と地理の復元にあたった。それによって、この街を舞台とする日系アメリカ文学の歴史的地理的背景を具体化することができた。また、作家ヘミングウェイの故郷イリノイ州オークパークを現地調査し、この町のほとんど未詳の歴史についてリサーチをした。それによって、ヘミングウェイの誤解された出自および故郷との確執を明らかにした。

著者

前田 一平

出版者

鳴門教育大学

雑誌

鳴門教育大学研究紀要 (ISSN:18807194)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.23, pp.247-258, 2008

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For Whom the Bell Tolls has long been regarded as one of the major novels of Ernest Hemingway, but almost no critics of the 80's and 90's, when the drastic revising of Hemingway's works took place, seem to have paid much attention to it. Still, two small critical movements supporting this novel can be recognized. One is a discussion presented from Spanish scholars : Edward F. Stanton and Allen Josephs are versed in the language, tradition, and culture of Spain and try, for example, to find the models of Pilar and Maria in the history and culture of Spain, not of the US of America. They maintain that what Hemingway had learned in Spain in the course of eighteen years, especially the primordial Spain which was the other world to him, is realized in this novel. The other movement is made by the critics who highly praise the organically united structure of the novel. The point of their argument is that the plural narrative voices, interior monologues, and recollections which form the multiple narrative structure of For Whom the Bell Tolls are all united with the simple and single action of blowing the bridge. This paper critically examines and denies the reliability of those two movements and concludes that the most convincing reading so far presented of For Whom the Bell Tolls could be found in Edmund Wilson's review published as early as in 1940, where he criticized the defects of the form and the story development of the novel.