検索キーワード： 文芸小説

Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: What does it mean to love?

阿Qは無知で短慮ゆえに村人から笑いものにされ、 死んでまで周囲の人から不満を言われる切ない最期を迎える。 中国の田舎村のある男の伝記を通して、当時の庶民の様子を描き出す、 魯迅の唯一の長編小説

Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws listeners into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is a novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.

「国境の長いトンネルを抜けると雪国であった。夜の底が白くなった。」の冒頭部分が有名な川端康成の代表作。雪国の温泉宿を舞台に、東京に妻子のある島村と、土地の芸者である一途な駒子の揺れ動く心の襞を軸に、彼女とも知り合いの美しい葉子への関心と平行しながら描かれる。雪国の雪の白さ、冷たく澄みきった空気の透明感や緊張感、温泉の温かさや湯煙、突き抜けるような青空、若葉の瑞々しい緑、列車の汽笛、そして駒子の肌の感触、女性2人の美しい声や手鞠歌の歌声、火事の紅い炎と熱気・・・五感に訴える哀しくも美しい川端美学の結晶的な作品。 ...

「僕もこの本を読み込んで再入門してみようか、と思います。」綾辻行人氏、推薦!!　書き手目線を知ればミステリはもっと面白くなる！ 読むと書くとは表裏一体。書き手の視点を知れば、ミステリは飛躍的に面白くなる。長年、新人賞の下読みを担当し、伊坂幸太郎氏、道尾秀介氏、米澤穂信氏らと伴走してきた編集長が、ミステリの〈お約束〉を徹底的に解説。

Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are lovesick doctors, students, ex-boyfriends, actors, bartenders, and even Kafka’s Gregor Samsa, brought together to tell stories that speak to us all. In Men Without Women, Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic, marked by the same wry humor and pathos that have defined his entire body of work.

この作品は、明治41年、7・8月を通して東京、大阪両新聞に10回にわたって連載された。「こんな夢を見た」と云う始まりで書かれた十の短編を集めたもので、如何にも漱石らしい自由な発想から一つ一つが全く違った物語になっている。「生と死」、「時間と空間」、「現実と架空」といった抽象世界が巧みな語り口で展開される。物語を聞きながら自由なイメージを抱かせてくれる朗読にもっとも相応しい作品である。

For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved.

Inspired as a boy by the multiple meanings to be found for a single word in the dictionary, Kohei Araki is devoted to the notion that a dictionary is a boat to carry us across the sea of words. But after thirty-seven years creating them at Gembu Books, it's time for him to retire and find his replacement. He discovers a kindred spirit in Mitsuya Majime - a young, disheveled square peg with a penchant for collecting antiquarian books and a background in linguistics - whom he swipes from his company's sales department.

所謂堅気でない女性を描いて一世を風靡した永井荷風の典型的な作品の一つ。荷風は昭和10年頃から浅草に通い六区の劇場に入り浸っていたといわれているが、時代の風俗や女達をリアルに見つめる姿勢が文章の端々に伺える。戦争も激しくなった昭和19年にこのような作品が書かれたことも彼の個性が伺える。出版されたのは戦後昭和21年。

『若草物語』は、作者のルイザ・メイ・オルコット自身が過ごした子ども時代を元に描いた、自叙伝的な物語です。時はクリスマス。

「近代における自我の問題として人間交渉の姿に敏感・執拗・潔癖で あったこの作家の苦悩に真正面からとり組んだ作品であるばかりでなく、両性の 相剋の苦しみの面をも絶頂的に扱われた小説」宮本百合子『漱石の「行人」について』より

「無頼派」「新戯作派」の破滅型作家を代表する昭和初期の小説家、太宰治の短編。初出は「文學界」［1939（昭和14）年］。5月1日の起床から就寝までの少女の一日を描いた話で、少女の心理の移り行

Yeongdo, Korea - 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a 15-year-old girl. The couple have one child: their beloved daughter, Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then, Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife. Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends and no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story.

日本の大衆小説作家吉川英治による歴史小説。新聞連載小説として中外商業新報などで昭和14年から18年までの4年間連載された。戦後に単行本として刊行され、絶大な人気を博した

小酒井不木による短編小説

Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not—be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed.

日本近現代の名作小説や詩を、朗読用に書き下ろされたオリジナルあらすじ台本で味わうシリーズ。

Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, he spends his days in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with sweet bean paste. Into his life comes Tokue, an elderly woman with disfigured hands and a troubled past. Tokue makes the best sweet bean paste Sentaro has ever tasted. She begins to teach him her craft, but as their friendship flourishes, social pressures become impossible to escape.

岩太は父を斬り殺され、兄に勘当されて乞食になった。見栄やしきたりに迎合せず、世間の勘違いを逆手にとって、かえって幸福を手にする岩太。やがて父の仇・宮本武蔵が病死し、手に入れた金と“宮本武蔵