今回はちょっと変わった本の紹介です。
この特徴的は表紙、今書店に行くと絶対目につきます。
1回は手に取ってみたくなります。そして私はその罠にはまりました。
あらすじ
本の好きな王様がいました。王様はもう年寄りで、目がほとんど見えません。王様は二人の男を城に呼び、言いました。
「わしは本が好きだ。今までたくさんの本を読んだ。たいていの本は読んだつもりだ。しかし、目が悪くなり、もう本を読むことができない。でもわしは、本が好きだ。だから、本の話を聞きたいのだ。
お前たち、世界中をまわって『めずらしい本』について知っている者を探し出し、その者から、その本についての話を聞いてきてくれ。
そしてその本の話をわしに教えてほしいのだ」
旅に出たふたりの男は、たくさんの本の話を持ち帰り、王様のために夜ごと語り出した―。
この本は小説と絵本の中間ぐらいですかね。
短いものから短編小説ぐらいの長さの物まで様々です。
皆までは書かずといった感じが少し歯がゆい感じもしますが、それも読者の数だけ解釈の数があり響くものもあるのかなと思います。
「何のために本を読むのか。」
これに対する明確な答えは私のも分かりませんが、この本のどこか1ページのあのセリフが！ということが起こりうるかもしれません。
この本の中でも私には刺さるフレーズもありましたが、
「人の数だけ本があり、本の数だけ人がいる。」
「応援したい人の数だけ本があり、届けたい人の数だけ本がある」
そう感じる内容でした。
完読するのに1時間ほどでしたので、苦手な人にも是非お勧めします！
English edition
This time we would like to introduce a rather unusual book.
This distinctive cover is definitely noticeable when you go to a bookstore nowadays.
It makes you want to pick it up at least once. And I fell into the trap.
The book is
Author:Shinsuke Yoshitake,Naoki Matayoshi
Poplar Publishing Co.
Amazon
Synopsis.
There was a king who loved books. The king was so old that he could hardly see. The king called two men to his castle and said, "I love books.
I love books. I have read many books. I have read most of them. But my eyesight has deteriorated, and I can no longer read. But I love books. That's why I want to hear about books.
I want you to go around the world and find someone who knows about a "rare book" and ask him or her to tell me about it.
Then tell me the story of the book.
The two men went on a journey, brought back many stories of books, and told them to the king night after night.
This book is somewhere between a novel and a picture book.
They range in length from short stories to short novels.
The fact that they don't tell everyone's story is a little frustrating, but I think it also means that there are as many interpretations as there are readers, and some of them will resonate with you.
What is the purpose of reading a book?
I don't have a clear answer to this question, but it may happen that a line on a page somewhere in the book will be read by someone else. might happen.
There are some phrases in this book that stuck with me.
"There are as many books as there are people, and as many people as there are books."
"There are as many books as there are people to support, and as many people as there are books to deliver."
That's what I felt.
It only took me about an hour to finish the book, so I highly recommend it, even if you're not very good at it!
