Mar 27, 2023

ルソーの『新エロイーズ』文庫本

一昨日書いた、ルーサー・バーバンク著の『植物の育成』は復刊されて、安く買えるようになったようだ。なんでも農業をやっている人は読むべき名著なのだという。
バーバンクで覚えているのは、じゃがいもの改良と、トゲなしサボテンのことである。
写真の『新エロイーズ』4冊は1969年に買って、完読していない。ルソーの本は、『エミール』を16歳ごろ読んで心に染みた覚えがある。それから『告白』や『社会契約論』など刊行されているものや、現代思潮社の『ルソー、ジャン=ジャックを裁く』など読んだが、なぜかこの当時ベストセラーになった小説は読んでいなかった。
52年後に、電子化して読むことになるとは、買った当時は思いもよらなかったことだ。
(下の英語文はchatGPTによる翻訳です)

The pocketbook edition of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "La Nouvelle Héloïse"

It seems that Luther Burbank's "The Training of the Plant" that I wrote about the day before yesterday has been republished and is now available for purchase at a cheaper price. It is said to be a masterpiece that anyone involved in agriculture should read. What I remember about Burbank is his work on improving potatoes and creating thornless cacti.

The four volumes of "La Nouvelle Héloïse" in the photo were purchased in 1969, but I have not finished reading them. I remember being deeply moved by Rousseau's book "Emile" when I read it around the age of 16. Since then, I have read some of his other works such as "Confessions" and "The Social Contract," as well as "Judging Jean-Jacques by Rousseau" by Gemdai-shichoucha, but for some reason, I had never read this novel that became a bestseller at the time.
I never imagined when I bought the book that I would be reading it in digitized form 52 years later.

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