王妃マリー・アントワネット（下）

by Shūsaku Endō, 遠藤周作

フランス革命によってヴェルサイユ宮殿の栄華は過去のものとなった。貴族たちは財産を奪われ、特権を剥奪され、次々と裁判にかけられる。王と王妃の処刑を要求する民衆の声は、日増しに高くなって行く。激しい愛を胸に秘め、フェルセンは王妃救出を必死に画策するのだが――。苛酷な運命の中、愛と優雅さとを失うまいとする悲劇の王妃の生涯を、円熟の筆に描き出す華麗な歴史絵巻。

352 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 25, 1985

About the author

Shusaku Endo (遠藤周作), born in Tokyo in 1923, was raised by his mother and an aunt in Kobe where he converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of eleven. At Tokyo's Keio University he majored in French literature, graduating BA in 1949, before furthering his studies in French Catholic literature at the University of Lyon in France between 1950 and 1953. A major theme running through his books, which have been translated into many languages, including English, French, Russian and Swedish, is the failure of Japanese soil to nurture the growth of Christianity. Before his death in 1996, Endo was the recipient of a number of outstanding Japanese literary awards: the Akutagawa Prize, Mainichi Cultural Prize, Shincho Prize, and Tanizaki Prize.
(from the backcover of Volcano).