Adelbert von Chamisso : Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte 1814
"wundersame" strange, strange, miraculous
"Geschichte" history, history book, story, matter , events, romantic relationships, adventures
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The author, Chamissot, was born in France and is German. He was born into an aristocratic family that was destroyed by the French Revolution in 1789, and he seems to have lived in Germany. He seems to have had a "rootless" experience of being German in France and French in Germany. And he seems to have been a great traveller.
I can't imagine the relationship between France and Germany (I don't think it was Germany at the time) in Europe. Japan and Korea, Edo and Osaka, which one is closer? For those who have left their hometowns, regardless of distance or language, they may feel "alienation" and feel like "rootless grass". I think culture is such a "vernacular" thing.
My Shadow
As the title suggests, this book is about a man who lost, or rather sold, his shadow published in 1814. It's a story. The main character, Shlemir, exchanges his shadow for a bag of inexhaustible gold coins. Now a millionaire, he regrets losing his shadow. He loves his beautiful daughter, but he can't get married because he doesn't have a shadow. The man who bought the shadow offers Shlemile to give him his soul in return for the shadow, but Shlemile refuses the temptation...
I don't know much about literature, but I'm sure there are many works that deal with shadows. I recently read Haruki Murakami's The City and its Uncertain Walls, where shadows play an important role.
"Kage" is "shadow" in English, and I don't know German at all, but it's probably "Schatten". There is a convenient thing called the Internet, so I looked it up and found ``Shadow; jp/dejaword/Schatten" target="_blank" class="">Pocket Progressive German-Japanese/Japanese-German Dictionary). The English word shadow seems to have the same etymology, but it seems to come from the Old Indo-European word "*(s)ḱeh₃-(darkness)".
The Japanese word ``kage'' has a similar meaning. A dark area where light rays are blocked by an object.Shadow.”“The shape and color of an object reflected on the surface of water or a mirror due to light reflection.”or“Light of the sun, moon, stars, lights, etc.” itself. It also has a meaning (Digital Daijisen). Shadow has a similar meaning, such as reflection or silhouette (which probably comes from French) shade. But I don't think it means "light". Different cultures have different meanings for words. "Moonlight" means moonlight. But I think there are fewer people who understand what that means now. In other words, the range is ever-changing.
As you can see from the illustration, the shadow in this book is the shadow that is formed on the opposite side when the light hits it. I think there is something.
Shadows have always been part of the whole human personality. (Bächtol 9, Nachtrag 126-42) The Greeks lose their shadow only when they become luminous before Zeus, and the Iranians do the same when they become saints. According to Irish legend, a man dies when his shadow pierces him. (Stith-Thompson D 2061.2.2.1) In the case of Jews, the lack of footprints is said to be evidence of ghosts (ibid., E421.2), but the absence of shadows is also considered a sign (ibid., E421.2). , E302.4.4). (Ivan Illich, "H2O and Water "Materials ( Staff)” historically read ” P.121)
So says the lover's father.
Again, oh my god! That's right, even a barking dog has at least a shadow, but a man with no shadow is the partner of a precious, precious only daughter... (P.82)
In other words, Schlemir is "less than a dog." It's just a lack of "personality". To have personality To have "personality" is to be human. A persona is a "mask". Beneath the mask, in other words, there is a personality in the back (shadow).
Psychologists say shadow memories accompany growth. At around a certain age, I finally realize the meaning of shadows. In other words, you become aware of your latent ego and discover "the other person called me." (P.137, "Until Peter Schlemier was born" Translator's postscript)
Being aware of oneself (the ego) and seeing the ego objectively (as an object) itself is the "beginning of the ego." Distinguishing yourself from others is the same logic as distinguishing between humans and dogs. From there, "taxonomy" since Aristotle begins. It leads to Linnaeus' taxonomy of the 18th century, and natural history of the 19th century. And that's what Shlemir did with his magic boots, and what the author Chamisso did.
Magic boots feel like "modern science" itself. Acquisition of it helped Shlemir overcome the pain of heartbreak. And he was able to have a Western modern ego. He became a Western modern individual. But he remains shadowless.
Schlemir's guilt is his own bourgeois character, his refusal to admit that he has lost his shadow, and his inability to create his genius out of it. It is in. (Ilyich, supra, p.123. It says Musil (v.7, p.895), but the original source is unconfirmed.)
What modern Westerners have lost instead of science Things, guilt and sorrow about things, are what people living in modern civilization have in common, and that is why they are still read in the same civilization.
I feel like I haven't seen my shadow in a while. If the weather is nice today, I would like to stare at my shadow again.
