Bourgeois Kekkaku Kanja (P+D)

[Machine Translation] A collection of his early works, including his debut novel Bourgeois. Kojira Serizawa was raised by his uncle and his wife after his father joined the Tenrikyo religion. After graduating from the Imperial University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, but he went to Paris to study economics, where he contracted tuberculosis and spent time in France and Switzerland recovering from the disease. This is his debut collection of works written from this experience. Bourgeois," which won the first prize in the "KAIZO" magazine contest, is set in a town where tuberculosis patients gather and depicts the anguish of an ill husband and wife and hospitalized patients from many different nationalities. Tuberculosis Patient," "Napping Husband," and "Searching for a Chair" feature Mr. and Mrs. Sugi, who describe their husband's physical and mental recovery from tuberculosis, while "Before the Bridge" and "Fujuju" depict the way ordinary people view communism.

デビュー作「ブルジョア」を含む初期の作品集。父が天理教に入信し、叔父夫婦に育てられた芹沢光治良。帝国大学卒業後、農商務省に入省したが、経済の研究を志してパリに留学するもそこで結核に感染し、フランス、スイスで療養生活を経験する。そんな体験から書かれたデビュー作品集である。雑誌「改造」の懸賞創作で1等に入選した「ブルジョア」は、結核患者が集まる町を舞台に、病に侵された夫と妻、多国籍の入院患者らの懊悩を描いた作品。「結核患者」「昼寝している夫」「椅子を探す」は、杉夫妻を主人公に、結核に倒れた夫が心身ともに復活していく様子を描写し、「橋の手前」「風迹」は、共産主義に対する市井の人々のとらえ方を描出している。