検索キーワード： 文芸小説

Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth - or Minitrue as it is called in Newspeak - altering newspapers and reports to follow the arbitrary dictates of Big Brother’s propaganda.

毎回、様々なジャンルから話題の書籍を１冊ピックアップし、その書籍の書評を本好きの２人、羊文学のギターヴォーカル・塩塚 モエカ、本好きモデル・小谷実由が紹介。

の膝小僧が不意にキリキリと痛み出して青年・新東は跳ね起きた。何かしらの鋭い刃物で突き刺されたような痛み。 半分夢心地のまま、その辺りを触ってみると右足が見つからない。そう、新東は肉腫によって右足を切断していた。 切断してから気味の悪い足に関する夢をよく見ていた。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】谷川の岸にある小さな学校に、高田三郎という転校生が来た。

『泥棒』は、夏目漱石の短編小説。1909年（明治42年）、『永日小品』の3番目の短編作品。漱石宅に泥棒が入った後の情景を描いた作品。 夏目 漱石（なつめ そうせき、東京生まれ、1867年 - 1916年）。『吾輩は猫である』『坊ちゃん』『三四郎』などの作品で広く知られる、明治・大正時代の文豪である。

冒頭部分で描かれている設定ですが、暮れ方という昼と夜の変わり目、夏から秋へと季節が変わる変わり目、羅生門は洛中と洛外の間にある門、下人は青年と大人の中間など、全てが変わり目であるというふうに描写されています。そのような変わり目の中で、生きることさえ言い訳にする弱々しい生き方を否定するという作品のように読み取れるかもしれません。「この平安朝の下人のSentimentalismeに影響した」と描写している点、下人は平安朝の人物という設定ですが、昔の人ではなく現代に通じる人物として描かれているようです。(C)2007 TOKYO FM & Appleway

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】小林多喜二による短編小説。共産主義者である夫が投獄され、妻が困窮する中で子供を産み育てながら、労働運動に身を投じていく姿が描かれる。

日本の大衆小説作家吉川英治による歴史小説。新聞連載小説として中外商業新報などで昭和14年から18年までの4年間連載された。戦後に単行本として刊行され、絶大な人気を博した。

「敬太郎はそれほど験の見えないこの間からの運動と奔走に少し厭気が注して来た。元々頑丈にできた身体だから単に馳け歩くという労力だけなら大して苦にもなるまいとは自分でも承知しているが、思う事が引っ懸ったなり居据って動かなかったり、または引っ懸ろうとして手を出す途端にすぽりと外れたりする反間が度重なるに連れて、身体よりも頭の方がだんだん云う事を聞かなくなって来た。……」「三四郎」と「こころ」の間にかかれた漱石の日本近代小説としての技法の進化が見られる作品です。なにより、この鬱屈に胸をえぐれらるかたも多いのではないでしょうか。 (C)アイ文庫 「ことのは出版オーディオブック作品一覧はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」

An elegant and haunting dystopian tale about a group of individuals gathered to relearn how to navigate the world after a mysterious illness strips them of their memories. Nestled in an idyllic locale beside the sea, The Centre is a place of rehabilitation and rebuilding. Students arrive nameless, their memories and sense of identity wiped by a strange illness.

Upward Bound is not a place anyone dreams of spending their days. The dreary adult daycare center for Los Angeles's disabled community is, for many of its clients and staff, a place of last resort. This includes Carlos, a young aide who lost his mother as a boy and now works there alongside his beloved sister Mariana; Jorge, the gentle nonspeaking giant whom Carlos seeks to befriend (and prevent from escaping); Tom, a beautiful young man with cerebral palsy, who pines for Ann, the summer lifeguard at the center's pool who feels out of her depth; then there's Dave, Upward Bound’s director.

In the sun-drenched chaos of 2010s Silicon Valley, a tech company's meteoric rise culminates in a devastating fall. Dot Van Jensen, the trailblazing CEO-turned-fugitive, narrates her story from a hidden corner of Indonesia. A scandal has painted her as the villain, a puppet-master who fractured democracy and paved the way for a darker future. But is the truth as cut and dry as the headlines seem to imply?

In the middle of the night, a car with two passengers drives off a pier. An elderly man drowns, but his young wife, Kumako Onizuka, lives. Kumako, with a past stained by yakuza entanglements and criminal activity, is accused of orchestrating the accident for a large insurance payout. Local journalist Moichi Akitani enjoys newfound success after writing a series of articles about the crime. Given her past, Kumako's guilt seems obvious to him, and as he portrays her as a devious femme fatale, the community turns against her.

Rising star Mieko Kawakami reaches new heights in this pacy, thrilling novel, a Japanese Breaking Bad, in which a group of friends fight for freedom, independence, and survival in Tokyo of the 1990s, a world rapidly dividing into haves and have-nots.

It’s 1974 in London and Connie Costa’s already pitiful life has gone off the rails. She’s spiraling from the loss of her mother and younger brothers in a tragic accident. And the man responsible is her Dad—otherwise known as “The Fat Murderer.” Kept at home under his increasingly tyrannical rule, Connie is an outcast who spends her nights conversing with the David Bowie poster on her wall and raiding her stash of whiskey and chocolate. Her only social outlet is the weekly gatherings with her father and their immigrant community of Greek “Freaks.” T

After months of financial strain and escalating arguments, Caroline is relieved when her husband, Adam, secures a job at Corridor, a prestigious Big Tech company. Though his long hours on top-secret projects often leave Caroline alone with their newborn son, Gabriel, the life-changing income seems worth the sacrifice. When Adam suggests a summer retreat to Haven, the exclusive island community that serves as Corridor’s base of operations, Caroline agrees, hoping the sun-soaked paradise will help Adam relax and bring their family closer.

Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert. Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be there with eight other women, their heads shaved, guarded by two inept yet vicious jailers. Doing hard labor under a sweltering sun, the prisoners soon learn what links them: in each woman's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man. They pray for rescue but as the hours turn into days and the days into weeks and months, it becomes clear that the women must rescue themselves.

As a lover of classic crime stories, it’s no surprise that schoolteacher Kaede encounters everyday mysteries more often than your typical twenty-seven-year-old. Solving them is another matter though. For that, she turns to her beloved grandfather, who retains a keen sharpness of mind despite his dementia, and who was once a key member of The Waseda Mystery Club. From impossible locked room murders to confounding missing person cases, the grandfather-granddaughter duo ‘weave stories’ to get to the bottom of every mystery.

Eighteen months later, the flat feels different. Love is merging with reality. Stephen's teenage daughter has re-appeared, while Eily has made a choice, the consequences of which she cannot outrun. Now they face a reckoning for all that's been left unspoken – emotions, secrets and ambitions. Tonight, if they are to find one another again, what must be said aloud?

Life is hard in Ireland in 1867. Eliza Carthy moves with her lighthouse-keeper husband James and sons Peter and Joseph to the remote island of Skellig Michael. When assistant keeper Edmund and his wife Ruth arrive, Eliza hopes for respite. But her new neighbours are not what she'd expected.