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Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin () ( in the village of Narovchat in the Penza Oblast〔''THE MOSCOW WINDOWS'HOME''. Sergei Sossinsky. Moscow News (Russia). HISTORY; No. 6. 17 February 1999.〕 – 25 August 1938 in Leningrad) was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his story ''The Duel'' (1905).〔Kuprin scholar Nicholas Luker, in his biography ''Alexander Kuprin'', calls ''The Duel'' his "greatest masterpiece" (chapter IV) and likewise literary critic Martin Seymour-Smith calls ''The Duel'' "his finest novel" (''The New Guide to Modern World Literature'' (pg.1051))〕 Other well-known works include ''Moloch'' (1896), ''Olesya'' (1898), "Junior Captain Rybnikov" (1906), "Emerald" (1907), and ''The Garnet Bracelet'' (1911) (which was made into a 1965 (movie )).〔 ==Biography== Kuprin was a son of Ivan Ivanovich Kuprin, a government official.〔(The Literature Network-Kuprin )〕 His mother, Liubov Alekseyevna Kuprina,〔(Book Rags.com )〕 like many other nobles in Russia, had lost most of her wealth during the 19th century.〔 Majority of his ancestry is ethnic Russian, but one of his distant ancestors was a Volga Tatar. In 1871 Ivan Kuprin, aged 37, died of cholera, and three years later Alexander with his mother moved into the Widows' Home in Kudrino, Moscow (a period reflected in his tale "A White Lie", 1914). In 1876 he joined the charitable Razumovsky boarding school, which caused him a lot of what he later referred to as "childhood grievances", but also brought about his riotous nature and made him popular among peers as a fine storyteller. In 1880, inspired by Russia's victory in the Russo-Turkish War,〔 he enrolled into the Second Moscow Military High School, turned into the Cadet Corps in 1882. Those memories stayed with him forever; he returned to them in autobiographical stories "At the Turning Point" (1900), "The River of Life" (1906), "Lenochka" (1910). "The memory of the birching in the Cadet Corps remained with me for the rest of my life," he wrote not long before his death.〔V.N. Afanasyev, Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (Moscow, 1960), p. 6.〕 Yet it was there that he took an interest in literature and for the first time started to write, mostly poetry. Most of his thirty youthful poems date from 1883–1887, the four years when he was in the Cadet Corps. During this period Kuprin also made several translations of foreign verse (among them Béranger's "Les Hirondelles" and Heine's "Lorelei").〔〔 According to scholar Nicholas Luker, "perhaps the most interesting of Kuprin's early poems is the political piece "Dreams", written on 14 April 1887, the day before sentence was passed on the terrorists who had plotted to assassinate Alexander III in March of that year."〔 In the autumn of 1888, Kuprin left the Cadet Corps to enter the Alexander Military Academy in Moscow.〔 In the summer of 1890, he graduated from the Academy ranked sublieutenant and was posted to the 46th Dnieper Infantry Regiment (which he chose at random)〔 stationed in Proskurov (now Khmelnitsky). Here he spent the next four years, the whole of his army service.〔〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aleksandr Kuprin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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