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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories ペーパーバック – スペシャル・エディション, 2001/10/1
英語版
Norman MacLean
(著),
Annie Proulx
(はしがき)
Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of "A River Runs through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the twentieth century. Originally published in 1976, A River Runs through It and Other Stories now celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary, marked by this new edition that includes a foreword by Annie Proulx.
Maclean grew up in the western Rocky Mountains in the first decades of the twentieth century. As a young man he worked many summers in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service. The two novellas and short story in this collection are based on his own experiences—the experiences of a young man who found that life was only a step from art in its structures and beauty. The beauty he found was in reality, and so he leaves a careful record of what it was like to work in the woods when it was still a world of horse and hand and foot, without power saws, "cats," or four-wheel drives. Populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, and set in the small towns and surrounding trout streams and mountains of western Montana, the stories concern themselves with the complexities of fly fishing, logging, fighting forest fires, playing cribbage, and being a husband, a son, and a father.
By turns raunchy, poignant, caustic, and elegiac, these are superb tales which express, in Maclean's own words, "a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by." A first offering from a 70-year-old writer, the basis of a top-grossing movie, and the first original fiction published by the University of Chicago Press, A River Runs through It and Other Stories has sold more than a million copies. As Proulx writes in her foreword to this new edition, "In 1990 Norman Maclean died in body, but for hundreds of thousands of readers he will live as long as fish swim and books are made."
Maclean grew up in the western Rocky Mountains in the first decades of the twentieth century. As a young man he worked many summers in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service. The two novellas and short story in this collection are based on his own experiences—the experiences of a young man who found that life was only a step from art in its structures and beauty. The beauty he found was in reality, and so he leaves a careful record of what it was like to work in the woods when it was still a world of horse and hand and foot, without power saws, "cats," or four-wheel drives. Populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, and set in the small towns and surrounding trout streams and mountains of western Montana, the stories concern themselves with the complexities of fly fishing, logging, fighting forest fires, playing cribbage, and being a husband, a son, and a father.
By turns raunchy, poignant, caustic, and elegiac, these are superb tales which express, in Maclean's own words, "a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by." A first offering from a 70-year-old writer, the basis of a top-grossing movie, and the first original fiction published by the University of Chicago Press, A River Runs through It and Other Stories has sold more than a million copies. As Proulx writes in her foreword to this new edition, "In 1990 Norman Maclean died in body, but for hundreds of thousands of readers he will live as long as fish swim and books are made."
- 本の長さ240ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社University of Chicago Press
- 発売日2001/10/1
- 対象9 and up
- 寸法13.97 x 2.03 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-100226500667
- ISBN-13978-0226500669
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著者について
Norman Maclean (1902-1990), woodsman, scholar, teacher, and storyteller, grew up in the Western Rocky Mountains of Montana and worked for many years in logging camps and for the United States Forestry Service before beginning his academic career. He was the William Rainey Harper Professor of English at the University of Chicago until 1973.
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- 出版社 : University of Chicago Press; Anniversary版 (2001/10/1)
- 発売日 : 2001/10/1
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 240ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0226500667
- ISBN-13 : 978-0226500669
- 寸法 : 13.97 x 2.03 x 21.59 cm
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私は、この本を元にしたロバート・レッドフォード監督の映画を見てモンタナ州の自然の美しさに憧れたが、正直言ってこの本を読んで観てはじめて多くのことを学んだ。原作の英文はとても簡単な単語ばかりでめったに辞書を引く必要無いが、易しい文章に一見思えるが、そこには深みはあり、いざ訳してみようとすると私の日本語の貧しさででうまく訳せない文章ばかりであった。それでも心に伝わってくるものは、如何に牧師の父親、何時も控えめな母親、そして兄弟愛に満ちた語り手の兄が弟(ブラッド・ピッド役)を愛していたかが、絶え間なく流れる川のように常に心に響く本であった。
文章で画かれ内容を、この様な映画の脚本にするのか、又る登場人物がこの様な俳優を使って表わすの等々を知り、映画のシーンを思い出しながら本を読むのも大きな楽しみであった。是非、多くの方がこの本と映画を味わって欲しい。
文章で画かれ内容を、この様な映画の脚本にするのか、又る登場人物がこの様な俳優を使って表わすの等々を知り、映画のシーンを思い出しながら本を読むのも大きな楽しみであった。是非、多くの方がこの本と映画を味わって欲しい。
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ネイティブでない人には読みづらい。西洋人が、漱石の草枕を読むようなものではないか。映画から原作へと進んだが甘かった。独自の倒置?がよくあり、文学の香りがするが、理解が困難。なまなかな英語は通用しない。
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Vicky L
5つ星のうち5.0
Great for those who fly fish!
2023年1月11日にカナダでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
A wonderful collection of short stories.
All the men in our family fly fish and all have asked to read the book.
All the men in our family fly fish and all have asked to read the book.
William Kinread
5つ星のうち5.0
Well Written
2023年4月23日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
This book is unusual in so far as there are no chapters, it is quite short and it is a simple, one dimensional story. That said, it is heartfelt and it keeps you turning the pages. It also gives an insight to life in Montana in the 1920s and it really was the Wild West.
Alex
5つ星のうち5.0
Classic
2022年12月24日にドイツでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
As flyfisher and hiker I can connect and I am touched by the stories. Kind of you can hear the river and smell the pines …
Evreux François
5つ星のうち5.0
Très satisfaisant
2018年9月13日にフランスでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Produit conforme, livraison rapide. Très bien. Merci
John P. Jones III
5つ星のうち5.0
Fishing reveals the meaning of life, and other stories...
2010年8月23日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Norman Maclean published his first work, this collection of three stories, when he was 73. He was an English Professor at the University of Chicago, and its Press broke precedent, by publishing its first work of fiction. A fortuitous decision, as this best seller provided the Press the funds to issue other drier academic works of non-fiction. The movie
A River Runs Through It
, directed by Robert Redford, issued in 1992, helped greatly to popularize this story. Nonetheless, not having seen the movie, I was leery of the book, with a gut feeling that this would be about the ultra-rich crowd who water at Jackson Hole, WY, or even further a field, say, chartering a private plane to some remote river in Siberia, so they can differentiate themselves from the masses by practices this arcane sport. And was I ever wrong - this is the REAL thing, fly-fishing as a natural art form, and a passion, as practiced by the natives of an equally obscure part of America: the Idaho-Montana border area.
The story is largely autobiographical, set in the late `30's, and is about Maclean's family relationships, particularly with his brother, who we learn early in the story, was murdered in the prime of life. His father, a Presbyterian minister, of Scottish origins, taught both sons how to fly fish, and it remained a passion, and cement that could be relied upon to bind their relationship. Norman's brother was admittedly the better sportsman. Although I've never fished, this one story explains why it is an intelligent man's (or woman's) avocation, shattering the image of Tom Sawyer sitting under a tree, with a pole in the water, and a worm at the end of the string. For that reason alone, the story is worth the read (I'd also highly recommend Russell Chatham's series of short stories Dark Waters for the same reason). But what really sets this story apart is the beautifully crafted tale of these relationships, coupled with those relating to their absolute loser of a brother-in-law and the women who find self-actualization tending to his pathetic nature. There are also some ribald and humorous scenes in the story. A line in the story summarizes Maclean's outlook: "...at the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books." And perhaps the central question of the story is: Can we really help anyone else?
The other two stories don't match the title story in excellence, but still are both worthwhile reads. They are both set just after World War I, when Maclean was in his late teens, and worked in the logging camps and the Forest Service in the same Idaho-Montana border area. It is a portrait of the "rough and tumble" West, not long after the "frontier" had closed, and featured hard work, gambling, boozing, and, yes, ladies of the trade. Maclean's summer work with the Forest Service involved fire watches, and it was in this same area that the largest forest fire in American history occurred nine years earlier, and is described in Timothy Egan's excellent book The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America .
Like Egan, and Wallace Stegner, Norman Maclean has written excellent, , poignant and authentic stories of the American West. A solid 5-star read.
The story is largely autobiographical, set in the late `30's, and is about Maclean's family relationships, particularly with his brother, who we learn early in the story, was murdered in the prime of life. His father, a Presbyterian minister, of Scottish origins, taught both sons how to fly fish, and it remained a passion, and cement that could be relied upon to bind their relationship. Norman's brother was admittedly the better sportsman. Although I've never fished, this one story explains why it is an intelligent man's (or woman's) avocation, shattering the image of Tom Sawyer sitting under a tree, with a pole in the water, and a worm at the end of the string. For that reason alone, the story is worth the read (I'd also highly recommend Russell Chatham's series of short stories Dark Waters for the same reason). But what really sets this story apart is the beautifully crafted tale of these relationships, coupled with those relating to their absolute loser of a brother-in-law and the women who find self-actualization tending to his pathetic nature. There are also some ribald and humorous scenes in the story. A line in the story summarizes Maclean's outlook: "...at the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books." And perhaps the central question of the story is: Can we really help anyone else?
The other two stories don't match the title story in excellence, but still are both worthwhile reads. They are both set just after World War I, when Maclean was in his late teens, and worked in the logging camps and the Forest Service in the same Idaho-Montana border area. It is a portrait of the "rough and tumble" West, not long after the "frontier" had closed, and featured hard work, gambling, boozing, and, yes, ladies of the trade. Maclean's summer work with the Forest Service involved fire watches, and it was in this same area that the largest forest fire in American history occurred nine years earlier, and is described in Timothy Egan's excellent book The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America .
Like Egan, and Wallace Stegner, Norman Maclean has written excellent, , poignant and authentic stories of the American West. A solid 5-star read.