検索キーワード： 文芸小説

学研サウンド文学館パルナスから、オーディオブックで厳選復刻。現代の文壇を代表する編集委員が、内外の作家の傑作を厳選。パルナスとは、「詩人」や「詩歌」という意味があります。

Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws listeners into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is a novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.

「毎日のように成長し変化してゆく」「われわれの雀」の声、「一つ一つに流義というようなものが」ある雲雀の声･･･大人だけでなく、子供にもすこしずつこの佳編を聞いてほしい、そして身近なあれこれにもっと興味を持つようになってほしい、日々鳥の声を聞き分けて楽しんで欲しい。そんな願いも込めました。

＜内容紹介＞ 山本周五郎は「文学には“純”も“不純…

「お月さま幾つ十三ななつまだ年は若いな」今も歌われるわらべうたですが、この歌が、和歌山で森岡でどう歌われていたか･･･ちなみに滋賀出身の親を持ち大阪で育った自分は「まだとしゃわかい」だと思っていました。子供の使うコトバに対する柳田國男の好奇心、観察眼、感性、そして満ちる愛情にほれぼれとさせられる一作。

「無頼派」「新戯作派」の破滅型作家を代表する昭和初期の小説家、太宰治の短編小説。初出は「女性」［1942（昭和17）年］。二十歳の娘である「私」が、毎日自分自身にもわからない誰かを小さな省線

「無頼派」「新戯作派」の破滅型作家を代表する昭和初期の小説家、太宰治によるレーゼドラマ。初出は「新ハムレット」［文藝春秋社、1941（昭和16）年］。

不朽の純文学作品をアイドルが読む『THE FIRST 音読』。コンセプトは「同じクラスになったアイドルの音読を、隣の席で聞けたら——。そんな追体験ができる、聞いて焦がれる純文学」。

【解説】 永井荷風の江戸情緒を漂わせる作品集。 風流三昧の俳諧師蘿月は、遊芸への思いを断ち切れずにいる甥の長吉に、敢えて親孝行のために辛抱せよと諭し、長吉と懸隔が生じる苦衷を味わう荷風の懐旧情緒の代表作のひとつ「すみだ川」。他に、新橋の花柳街を題材にした『新橋夜話』より「牡丹の客」、麻布の古家に響いてくる鐘の音の情緒を描く「鐘の声」、明治末年、外遊から帰国して東京の喧噪や雑然さに憤然とする中で訪れた深川で、たちまち懐かしい昔に戻ることができたしみじみさを描く随筆「深川の唄」の3編を収録。 【朗読】 wis ※透明感と落ち着きのある声で親しまれている女性朗読家です。

Pride and Prejudice unfolds the timeless tale of spirited Elizabeth Bennet and the brooding Mr. Darcy, set against the elegant backdrop of Regency-era England. This classic Jane Austen novel weaves sharp social commentary with an enduring romance that has captivated readers for over two centuries.

1926年に同人誌『青空』にて発表された耽美的名作。月光の下、影と自己との境目を見失った若者が遂げた生と死の物語。お手紙によりますと、あなたはK君の溺死について、それが過失だったろうか、自殺だったろうか、自殺ならば、それが何に原因しているのだろう、あるいは不治の病をはかなんで死んだのではなかろうかと様さまに思い悩んでいられるようであります。そしてわずか一ひと月ほどの間に、あの療養地のN海岸で偶然にも、K君と相識ったというような、一面識もない私にお手紙をくださるようになったのだと思います。私はあなたのお手紙ではじめてK君の彼地かのちでの溺死を知ったのです。私はたいそうおどろきました。と同時に「K君はとうとう月世界へ行った」と思ったのです。どうして私がそんな奇異なことを思ったか、それを私は今ここでお話しようと思っています。それはあるいはK君の死の謎を解く一つの鍵であるかも知れないと思うからです。

When he died, Nërëus Forbes, frontman of The Marshalls, was the most famous rockstar in the world. 40 years after his death, Nërëus' status as an icon is undisputed, but the circumstances around his death remain uncertain. In an attempt to uncover the truth, Winter Harris, an investigative journalist and daughter of The Marshalls guitarist, decides to interview those who knew Nërëus best. But when her father confesses a dark secret, hidden for decades, Winter suddenly has evidence that could bring both of their lives crashing down.

Captive in a brutal German prison towards the end of World War II, Richard Temple has been stripped of everything that once defined him: pride, courage, his very identity have all been surrendered in a desperate bid to protect his secrets from the Nazis. Huddled in his cell, too badly beaten to move, the action of the novel takes place in Richard's mind as he retraces a convoluted course from an unhappy childhood, through a vague and uncertain adolescence to a complex, compromised adulthood, shot through with artistic sensibility and the myriad impulses that make a man.

Jiwon's life has been slowly disintegrating since her mom died. Until one day, caught in a downpour, she comes across a mysterious bookstore. The Memory Bookshop stores all of one's memories within an infinite number of books and appears to those who are looking for a reason to live. Its manager, 'K', offers visitors the chance to travel back three times, in exchange for part of their futures. Browsing the shelves, Jiwon must choose whether to revisit three chapters of her life.

Secrets, Love, and a Legacy of Land Molly and Sam’s love story began in the third grade, growing up as neighbors in a small Texas town. From childhood adventures on Molly’s family ranch to high school and college graduations, their bond grew unshakable. Together, they built a life of love and dreams on the land Molly’s family had cherished for generations. But every family has its secrets. Molly’s mother had escaped a troubled past—a mother lost to drugs, a father who was always on the road as a truck driver and ultimately ended up in jail.

A brilliant, sweeping, tour de force moving between America and modern India, following the illicit liaisons, real estate dramas, political ambitions, and mortal betrayals of one prominent Delhi family — from the author of the National Book Award finalist The Association of Small Bombs

After an involuntary retirement from his high-flying Hollywood career, Stafford Hopkins has retreated to a luxury estate on Maui, along with his wife Agnes, both grimly resigned to life in a paradise where neither feels fully at home. Stafford is ready to retreat into himself, too, when a letter arrives with shocking news. Stafford has been named guardian of four children he didn’t know existed: the grandchildren of his late childhood friend, Bobby Shepherd, whose ghost Stafford can no longer ignore.

Steven Hammer was once an acclaimed literary star. Now, his career is floundering, his marriage to a high-powered woman is crumbling, and the only bright spot in his life is Astrid, the Norwegian au pair who cares for their children—and reveres his neglected novels. But what begins as a secret infatuation soon spirals into a scandal that makes them both infamous. As a headline-grabbing trial captivates the world with a salacious story of sex, power, and betrayal, Steven must confront the wreckage he’s created—and the deeper insecurities that fueled it.

Chichirim is a plain 13-year-old girl. An ordinary, misunderstood, lonely seventh-grader. A girl with a terrible secret. Her dad is worse than useless. And her mum spends all her days tattooing thick ugly eyebrows on old women. Her parents forget her birthday and her sister hates them so much she wishes they were dead. Chichirim does bad things at school. And still, no one cares. Until, one day, an older man picks her up on the side of the road. He tells her she is pretty. He tells her what to do.

Januar 1942. Für June Porter Hudson ist die Führung des Avalon und seines ihm treuen Personals kein Beruf, sondern Berufung. Umgeben von der magischen Einsamkeit der Appalachen, steht das legendäre Grand Hotel für Luxus, Raffinesse und für sein besonderes Heilwasser. Doch als die Wirrungen des Krieges in seine Welt einbrechen, muss June sich einer harten Prüfung stellen, denn nur sie kennt die Kräfte, die aus den Quellen hinter den Fassaden wirken. Sind das Hotel und die ihm verschriebenen Menschen zu retten und eine Katastrophe aufzuhalten?