A study of Honore de Balzac in a Socio-Historical and Cultural Context

我们研究的目的是为日本和海外的学者出版一份关于巴尔扎克荣誉的整体研究报告。我们在四月份举行了第一次会议。1999年，并在次年春天出版了我们的研究成果集。这本书的主题从巴尔扎克小说的文本研究到他那个时代的文化研究，不一而足。这本书分发给了日本和海外的学者，受到了很好的欢迎。我们还为19号赤道编辑了一期关于巴尔扎克的特刊。这一期的撰稿人是来自法国、瑞士、英国和加拿大的四名学者，以及来自日本的六名学者，其中包括我们小组的四名学者。这些论文证明了我们今天在日本的巴尔扎克学术研究的卓越，本期发表的论文将被刊登在该领域最著名的学术期刊L的评论部分。通过Jochi大学的网站正在建设一个主页--“巴尔扎克在日本的研究”。它将开启与世界各地的学者和研究人员的国际学术对话。另一个正在进行的项目是日本学者拥有的私人收藏的书目。我们成功地举行了两次会议。在大阪大学举办了一次研讨会，邀请了加拿大的瓦西恩教授。2000年12月，以“巴尔扎克和他的时代”为题的国际论坛在独岛大学举行。主题涵盖了法律、社会问题、艺术和出版，并在每个主题下比较和讨论了当代法国和日本的例子。Kaken-Fund使我们能够购买的研究材料，包括书籍和文献，远远超出我们的预期。我们相信，这些新获得的研究材料一定会在我们的领域产生新的学术成果。

The aim of our research was to publish a holistic study on Honore de Balzac for the benefit of scholars both in Japan and overseas. We held the first conference in April. 1999 and in the following spring published a collection of our research results. The themes for the book vary from texual studies of Balzac's novels to cultural studies of his times. It was distributed to scholars both in Japan and overseas and was very well received. We also ediated a special issue on Balzac for Equinoxe No. 19. Conrtibutors for this issue were four scholars from France, Switzerland, UK, and Canada, and six from Japan, including four from our group. These papers prove the excellence of our Balzac scholarship in Japan today, and the papers published in this issue will be taken up in the review section of L'Anneee balzacienne, a most well-known scholarly journal in the field.A homepage, "Balzac Studies in Japan," is now under construction through the Jochi University site. It will open up international scholarly dialogues with world-wide scholars and researchers. One other ongoing project is a bibliography of the private collections owned by Japanese scholars.We had two successful meetings. A seminar was hosted at Osaka University, inviting Professor Vacion from Canada. In December 2000, International Forum titled "Balzac and His Times," was held at Dokkyo University. Topics covered Law, Social Issues, Art, and PUblication, and, under each topic, contemporary French and Japanese examples were compared and discussed.The research material, including books and documents, that Kaken-Fund enabled us to purchase were far beyond our expectations. We are confident that these newly acquired research materials well surely yield new scholarship in our field.