Run, Melos!
走れメロス
太宰治 · Japanese
A simple shepherd promises a tyrant he will return for his own execution if his friend may stand hostage.
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A simple shepherd promises a tyrant he will return for his own execution if his friend may stand hostage. Dazai Osamu's uncharacteristically luminous fable of friendship and trust, adapted from Schiller.
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太宰治
Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) was a Japanese novelist known for narrators who confess more than they mean to. No Longer Human and The Setting Sun made him one of the defining voices of postwar Japan. His life was marked by repeated suicide attempts, the last of them successful, and his work is read as inseparable from it.
Run, Melos!
走れメロス
太宰治 · Japanese
A simple shepherd promises a tyrant he will return for his own execution if his friend may stand hostage.
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メロスは激怒した。必ず、かの邪智暴虐の王を除かなければならぬと決意した。メロスには政治がわからぬ。メロスは、村の牧人である。笛を吹き、羊と遊んで暮して来た。けれども邪悪に対しては、人一倍に敏感であった。きょう未明メロスは村を出発し、野を越え山越え、十里はなれた此のシラクスの市にやって来た。メロスには父も、母も無い。女房も無い。十六の、内気な妹と二人暮しだ。この妹は、村の或る律気な一牧人を、近々、花婿として迎える事になっていた。結婚式も間近かなのである。メロスは、それゆえ、花嫁の衣裳やら祝宴の御馳走やらを買いに、はるばる市にやって来たのだ。先ず、その品々を買い集め、それから都の大路をぶらぶら歩いた。メロスには竹馬の友があった。セリヌンティウスである。今は此のシラクスの市で、石工をしている。その友を、これから訪ねてみるつもりなのだ。久しく逢わなかったのだから、訪ねて行くのが楽しみである。歩いているうちにメロスは、まちの様子を怪しく思った。ひっそりしている。もう既に日も落ちて、まちの暗いのは当りまえだが、けれども、なんだか、夜のせいばかりでは無く、市全体が、やけに寂しい。のんきなメロスも、だ
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Pagera Editor's Note
A simple shepherd promises a tyrant he will return for his own execution if his friend may stand hostage. Dazai Osamu's uncharacteristically luminous fable of friendship and trust, adapted from Schiller.
Author
太宰治
Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) was a Japanese novelist known for narrators who confess more than they mean to. No Longer Human and The Setting Sun made him one of the defining voices of postwar Japan. His life was marked by repeated suicide attempts, the last of them successful, and his work is read as inseparable from it.
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