Edna O'Brien

 

In Dublin, O'Brien bought Introducing James Joyce, with an introduction written by T. S. Eliot, and said that when she learned that James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was autobiographical, it made her realise where she might turn, should she want to write herself. "Unhappy houses are a very good incubation for stories", she said.^[15] In London, she started work as a reader for Hutchinson, where based on her reports she was commissioned, for £50, to write a novel. She published her first book, The Country Girls, in 1960.^[18] This was the first part of a trilogy of novels (later collected as The Country Girls Trilogy), which included The Lonely Girl (1962) and Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964). Shortly after their publication, these books were banned and, in some cases burned, in her native country due to their frank portrayals of the sex lives of their characters. O'Brien herself was accused of "corrupting the minds of young women"; she later said: "I felt no fame. I was married. I had young children. All I could hear out of Ireland from my mother and anonymous letters was bile and odium and outrage."^[19]

Edna O’Brien

エドナ・オブライエン Edna O'Brien
誕生	1930年12月15日  アイルランド クレア県
死没	2024年7月27日（93歳没）
職業	小説家
国籍	アイルランド
代表作	『カントリー・ガール』

エドナ・オブライエン（Edna O'Brien, 1930年12月15日 - 2024年7月27日）は、アイルランドの小説家、随筆家。クレア県出身。女性を主題にした作品を多く描く。代表作は『愛に傷ついて』（Casualties of Peace）など。

2024年7月27日に死去。93歳没^[1]。

作品

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• The Country Girls　カントリー・ガール(1960)
• Girl with Green Eyes　緑の瞳(1962)
• Girls in Their Married Bliss　愛の歓び(1964)
• August is a Wicked Month　八月はいじわるな月(1965)
• Casualties of Peace　愛に傷ついて(1966)
• Mother Ireland　母なるアイルランド(1976)