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三浦綾子 電子全集 続 泥流地帯
ちっぽけな人間が大きな自然や運命に抗して生き抜く姿を描く、著者渾身の長編。十勝岳大噴火によって、祖父母、姉、妹と家田畑を失った拓一･耕作兄弟。流木と泥だらけの地の再興を決意し、懸命に働くが……。ちっぽけな存在である人間を苦もなく押しつぶしてしまう猛々しい自然。過酷な運命や自然に抗して、人間としての存在を守ろうと生き抜く姿を描く長編。「三浦綾子電子全集」付録として、夫･三浦光世氏による「創作秘話」、日新尋常小学校に立つ記念碑の写真を収録！
442 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 25, 1982
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May 2, 2025
何故『良い人』に『悪いこと』が起きるのか。
Why do bad things happen to ”good” people?
In this work, Miura asks the eternal question of the problem of evil in the face of a gut-wrenching disaster that kills many in the settlement village that Kōsaku, the MC, lives in and the horrifying aftermath of the natural disaster that leaves the entire farmland toxic and impossible to settle—or so Kōsaku thinks. Even in the face of this crisis, Kōsaku’s older brother and the village mayor are determined to remain, to restore the toxic farmlands back to what it was and one day harvest rice on there again.
Miura seamlessly weaves through the probing life-questions and quiet assumptions we have, namely, that ”Good should be rewarded with good, and evil should be rewarded by evil.” Miura turns this on its head, as Kōsaku, his family, and friends, who are genuinely ”good” in all its purest sense, suffer one evil fate after another.
Through his mother, who had become a Christian while in the care of the church at her workplace while she was ill, we find the counterpoint/antithesis in the story of Job that she compells Kōsaku to read.
”Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”
(Job 1:21)
When Kōsaku realises that he cannot say the same, it is really Miura asking us, ”And what about you?”
Why do bad things happen to ”good” people?
In this work, Miura asks the eternal question of the problem of evil in the face of a gut-wrenching disaster that kills many in the settlement village that Kōsaku, the MC, lives in and the horrifying aftermath of the natural disaster that leaves the entire farmland toxic and impossible to settle—or so Kōsaku thinks. Even in the face of this crisis, Kōsaku’s older brother and the village mayor are determined to remain, to restore the toxic farmlands back to what it was and one day harvest rice on there again.
Miura seamlessly weaves through the probing life-questions and quiet assumptions we have, namely, that ”Good should be rewarded with good, and evil should be rewarded by evil.” Miura turns this on its head, as Kōsaku, his family, and friends, who are genuinely ”good” in all its purest sense, suffer one evil fate after another.
Through his mother, who had become a Christian while in the care of the church at her workplace while she was ill, we find the counterpoint/antithesis in the story of Job that she compells Kōsaku to read.
”Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”
(Job 1:21)
When Kōsaku realises that he cannot say the same, it is really Miura asking us, ”And what about you?”
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