国盗り物語 二

国盗り物語 #2

by Ryōtarō Shiba, 司馬 遼太郎

気運（しお）が来るまで気長く待ちつつ準備する者が智者。気運が来るや、それをつかんでひと息に駆けあがる者が英雄。──それが庄九郎の信念であった。そして庄九郎こそ、智者であり英雄だった。内紛と侵略に明け暮れる美濃ノ国には英雄の出現を翹望（ぎょうぼう）する気運が満ちていた。“蝮（まむし）”の異名にふさわしく、周到に執拗に自らの勢力を拡大し、ついに美濃の太守となった斎藤道三の生涯。

517 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1965

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

Reviews

[Carlos Wang · Rating 4 out of 5]

司馬遼太郎這套《盜國物語》最早是簡體版先出的，那時候我在迷羅馬，就先擱置在一旁。直到現在遠流也推出了，才去圖書館借來看。

先說一下。司馬遼太郎這些昭和時代的老作家們的寫法，我是挺懷疑現在的年輕人能不能讀下去。他們這種「說書人式」的敘事風格，借個中國用語的說法就是「很出戲」。不過如果能習慣的話，就當是在看Youtuber 的影片文字版，倒也是一種風格。

司馬遼太郎這套《盜國物語》是講述日本三大下剋上的梟雄之一：齋藤道三，跟他著名天下人女婿：織田信長的故事。作者還加入了另外一位同樣很有淵源的：明智光秀，串成了一段「師徒」的愛恨情仇故事集。這個是小說家筆法就不用太在意，但是司馬遼太郎確實是把齋藤道三怎麼從一個浪人變成賣油商再到美濃一國國主的經過，寫得活靈活現。個人是覺得喜歡日本戰國主題的，別錯過了。

順便再一提...遠流處理這套書的排版也是很有意思，不過這樣也好，不然一套小說賣太貴讀者可是不會買帳的。只是字體大小可能對於中老年讀者就不太友善了。

[Mylove4book · Rating 5 out of 5]

加速結束了. 看了覺得日本的戾氣好重......