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''Seven Men'' is a collection of short stories written by English caricaturist, essayist and parodist Max Beerbohm. It was published in Britain in 1919 by Heinemann and in the United States in 1920 by Alfred A. Knopf, and has been described as a "masterpiece."〔"Sir Max Beerbohm." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 20 October 2009 ==Background== ''Seven Men'' contains Beerbohm's biographies of six fictional characters. Beerbohm himself is the seventh man with whom the others interact. One of the most popular stories in the collection is Enoch Soames, the tale of a poet who makes a deal with the devil to find out how posterity will remember him. ''Seven Men'' includes two supernatural comedies, "Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton", a tale of invisibility, and "A. V. Laider", a tale of prevision.〔Beerbohm, Max 'Seven Men' Heinemann, London (1919)〕 A review of ''Seven Men'' said:
Martin Maner wrote of ''Seven Men'' that in it Beerbohm "anticipated postmodernism" in his insights into the problems of 20th-century mass culture and that ''Seven Men'' is "an anomaly, a postmodernist fiction written before its time."〔Maner, Martin 'Beerbohm's ''Seven Men'' and the Power of the Press,' ''English Literature in Transition'', 34, 2 (1991) pgs 133-151〕 An enlarged edition, ''Seven Men, and Two Others'', with a new story and two new characters, Felix Argallo and Walter Ledgett, was published by Heinemann in 1950. 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「Seven Men」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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