英語検定ライティング準１級（第277回）

西村賢太「すごすぎ爆弾発言の話」

ある文学賞を受賞してインタビューを受けての回答が風俗に行こうと思っててという度肝を抜かれる爆弾発言で一気に全国のMXファンの心を打ち抜いてしまったある作家を思い出した。
We have never seen such an eccentric author as he.
He was awarded with something famous and honorable.
A certain TV reporter asked him what he was doing when he was awarded, his answer was an explosive utterance.
He was about to visit somewhere sexual, which nobody announces openly to the public on TV interviews.
This entertaining expressions of his suddenly captured numerous MXTV supporters’ mind over Japan.
Without any persuasive reasons, we remember him.

10年以上前のことだが彼がファンだった柏木由紀もまだ未成年だった。賞を獲った自叙伝は映画化された。観に行きたかったが近くではやってなかったはず。破滅的なところに共感した。
This incident happened about a decade ago, “Yuki Kashiwagi,” whom the writer cheered up, hadn’t come of age yet, and the awarded work of his was featured in the film business, where “Atsuko Maeda” was an actress.
That novel was an autobiography of his own, and we wanted to see the movie, but such a film wasn’t on air in our neighborhood, to our regret, an online article says.
His disastrous and catastrophic character attracted our mind, but none of us could imitate his lifestyle.

父親が性犯罪で高校に行ってなくては社会の底辺を感じさせる。だが理由の分からないやるせなさが原動力になったのは明らかだ。彼の墓は半年前の地震で倒壊して修復もないらしい。
His father had been arrested due to his sexual crime, which forced him to move to various neighborhoods.
At the same time, he didn’t enroll a high school, which makes us to find him on the bottom of our society.
He must have felt something downhearted without any persuasive reasons, which enabled him to write such a masterpiece as “The Drudgery Train” in 2011.
His tombstone in Noto was destructed due to the huge and destructive earthquake about seven months ago, which isn’t going to be repaired, an online article says.

結婚しない理由を聞かれて嫁は老けていくだけとかテレビで言ってた。最後はタクシーの中での心疾患でまだ54歳だった。パソコンは使えないので原稿もいまだに手書きの作家だった。
He was asked on TV interview the reason why he had no intention to become married, and he answered as usual, and he said that a wife was to be ugly as she gets older.
He died of a heatstroke in the taxi, when he was only 54.
His custom to write sentences didn’t use the modern technology like a personal computer, but his handwriting was the only weapon to release his explosive novel.