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''Vägmärken'' (''Markings''), published in 1963, is the only book of former UN secretary general, Dag Hammarskjöld. The journal was discovered after his death, with a covering letter to his literary executor, " a sort of White Book concerning my negotiations with myself - and with God." 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1961/hammarskjold-bio.html )〕 After the original Swedish version was published in 1963, the English translation came out in 1964, The translation was done by noted Swedish scholar Leif Sjoberg,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.columbia.edu/cu/swedish/news/sjoberg.html )〕 and was refined by the poet W. H. Auden, who also wrote a foreword. This brought the book immediate literary notice, and even a front-page rave in ''The New York Times Book Review''.〔 〕 It is highly regarded as a classic of contemporary spiritual literature. == Personal significance == A collection of his diary reflections, the book starts in 1925, when he was 20 years old, and ends at his death in 1961. The a typewritten manuscript found in the bedside table of his New York apartment after Hammarskjold's death in the Congo.〔 As van Dusen writes: "His last night had been spent in the residency of Sture Linner (sv), head of the United Nations mission to the Congo. He left there the copy of the German original of Ich und Du (I and Thou) presented to him by Martin Buber and the first dozen pages of his translation into Swedish...Beside the bed was the cherished copy of Thomas a Kempis' ''The Imitation of Christ'' which was always on the table of his New York apartment next to his bed where the manuscript of ''Markings'' was found."〔Henry P Van Dusen. Dag Hammarskjold. ''A Biographical Interpretation of Markings'' Faber and Faber London 1967 p 169〕 Many of the entries in ''Markings'' describe Hammarskjold's struggles to view his professional duty as a spiritual responsibility. The entry on June 11, 1961, for example, reads: "Summoned/To carry it,/Aloned/To assay it,/Chosen/To suffer it,/And free/To deny it,/I saw/For one moment/The sail/In the sun-storm,/Far off/On a wave-crest,/Alone,/Bearing from land./For one moment/I saw."〔Dag Hammarskjold. ''Markings'' Leif Sjoberg and WH Auden (trans) Faber and Faber London 1964 p175〕 Hammarskjold died in a plane crash in Zambia, near midnight, on September 17–18, 1961. The last entry of ''Markings'' is dated 24 August 1961: "Is it a new country/In another world of reality/Than Day's?/Or did I live there/Before Day was?/ I awoke/To an ordinary morning with grey light/Reflected from the street,/But still remembered/The dark-blue night/Above the tree line,/The open moor in moonlight,/The crest in shadow,/Remembered other dreams/Of the same mountain country:/Twice I stood on its summits,/I stayed by its remotest lake,/And followed the river/Towards its source./The seasons have changed/And the light/And the weather/And the hour./But it is the same land./And I begin to know the map/And to get my bearings."〔Dag Hammarskjold. ''Markings'' Leif Sjoberg and WH Auden (trans) Faber and Faber London 1964 p 181〕 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「Vägmärken」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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