項羽と劉邦 下

項羽と劉邦 #3

by Ryōtarō Shiba, 司馬 遼太郎

秦の始皇帝没後の動乱中国で覇を争う項羽と劉邦。
天下を制する“人望"とは何かを、史上最高の典型によってきわめつくした歴史大作。

楚漢の天下争いは勝負がつかない。圧倒的な項羽軍の前に、穀倉のある山にのぼってこれと対峙する劉邦軍。やがて和議成って故郷に帰る項羽軍を劉邦は追撃し垓下に囲む。ある夜、包囲軍の中から楚の国の歌が湧き上がるのを聞いた項羽は、楚人はことごとく漢に降伏したかと嘆き、天が我を滅ぼしたことを知る。
あらゆる人物の典型を描出しながら、絢爛たる史記の世界を甦らせた歴史大作。

【目次】
背水の陣
斉の七十余城
半ば渡る
虞姫
弁士往来
平国侯の逐電
漢王百敗
烏江のほとり

あとがき
解説:谷沢永一
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司馬遼太郎 (1923-1996)
大阪市生れ。大阪外語学校蒙古語科卒。産経新聞文化部に勤めていた1960(昭和35)年、『梟の城』で直木賞受賞。以後、歴史小説を一新する話題作を続々と発表。1966年に『竜馬がゆく』『国盗り物語』で菊池寛賞を受賞したのを始め、数々の賞を受賞。1993(平成5)年には文化勲章を受章。“司馬史観"とよばれる自在で明晰な歴史の見方が絶大な信頼をあつめるなか、1971年開始の『街道をゆく』などの連載半ばにして急逝。享年72。『司馬遼太郎全集』(全68巻)がある。

362 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Ryōtarō Shiba (司馬 遼太郎) born Teiichi Fukuda (福田 定一 Fukuda Teiichi, August 7, 1923 – February 12, 1996) in Osaka, Japan, was a Japanese author best known for his novels about historical events in Japan and on the Northeast Asian sub-continent, as well as his historical and cultural essays pertaining to Japan and its relationship to the rest of the world.

Shiba studied Mongolian at the Osaka School of Foreign Languages (now the School of Foreign Studies at Osaka University) and began his career as a journalist with the Sankei Shimbun, one of Japan's major newspapers. After World War II Shiba began writing historical novels. The magazine Shukan Asahi printed Shiba's articles about his travels within Japan in a series that ran for 1,146 installments. Shiba received the Naoki Prize for the 1959 novel Fukuro no Shiro ("The Castle of an Owl"). In 1993 Shiba received the Government's Order of Cultural Merit. Shiba was a prolific author who frequently wrote about the dramatic change Japan went through during the late Edo and early Meiji periods. His most monumental works include Kunitori Monogatari (国盗り物語), Ryoma ga Yuku (竜馬がゆく; see below), Moeyo Ken, and Saka no ue no kumo (坂の上の雲), all of which have spawned dramatizations, most notably Taiga dramas aired in hour-long segments over a full year on NHK television. He also wrote numerous essays that were published in collections, one of which—Kaidō wo Yuku—is a multi-volume journal-like work covering his travels across Japan and around the world. Shiba is widely appreciated for the originality of his analyses of historical events, and many people in Japan have read at least one of his works.

Several of Shiba's works have been translated into English, including his fictionalized biographies of Kukai (Kukai the Universal: Scenes from His Life, 2003) and Tokugawa Yoshinobu (The Last Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 2004), as well as The Tatar Whirlwind: A Novel of Seventeenth-Century East Asia (2007).

(from Wikipedia)

Alternative Names:

Fukuda, Teiichi
Ryotaro, Shiba
Shiba, Ryoutarou
Ryoutarou, Shiba
Sima, Liaotailang
司馬遼太郎
司马辽太郎
Shiba, Rëotaro
Шиба, Рёотаро
司马辽太郎
司馬, 遼太郎
司馬遼太郎
司場遼太郎