Furandoru No Fuyu (P+D)

[Machine Translation] This is the first full-length novel based on the author's own study abroad experience, describing the daily life of Kobayashi, a Japanese exchange student working as a psychiatrist at the Saint-Venant Psychiatric Hospital in Flanders, a region in northern France. The unimaginable daily life with mentally ill patients - it is truly harsh. Although he lives together with a young nurse and gets to know the French doctors better, Kobayashi begins to wander between sanity and madness, stepping over the boundary between himself and his patients under the sky of Flanders, where there is almost no blue sky. In this reprint, the author's afterword is newly included.

フランス北部に広がるフランドル地方のサンヴナン精神病院に勤務する日本人留学生コバヤシの精神科医としての日常を描く、著者自身の留学経験をベースにした長編処女作。1967年に発表され、芸術選奨新人賞を受賞。精神を病んだ患者たちとの想像を絶する日々―それは正に過酷そのものだった。若い看護婦との同棲や、フランス人医師たちとの交流は深まるものの、コバヤシは青空が殆どないフランドルの空の下、自己と患者との境界を踏み越えて正気と狂気の間をさまよい始めるのだった。復刻にあたって、著者あとがきも新たに併録。