（報告）フライング発売はあるか？

昨日、紀伊国屋の新宿南口店に行ってきたのですが、本日発売をきっちり守っていました。そいうお達しがあったのでしょうね。昨日ご紹介した販促アイテムが使われていて展示されていたのでbookmarkをもらってきました。

Enclosed are merchandising items to help create excitement in your store:
• Go Set a Watchman buttons for store staff or to give to customers
• Bookmarks
• A poster and easel for in-store displays
• A discussion guide for To Kill a Mockingbird
(also available at hc.com/gosetawatchman)

NPRのレビューでも酷評されていたので、To Kill a Mockingbirdの習作という位置付けで、To Kill a Mockingbirdと読み比べたりしない限りは特に目を通さなくていいのかもしれません。Yutaは勢いに乗ってAmazonで購入して入手済みですが。。。

Harper Lee's 'Watchman' Is A Mess That Makes Us Reconsider A Masterpiece
JULY 13, 201512:52 PM ET

ハーパーリーの弁護士がこの原稿を見つけるまでの経緯を語っています。

How I Found the Harper Lee Manuscript
Much has been said lately about the discovery of ‘Go Set a Watchman’ and when it occurred. Here’s the full story.
By TONJA B. CARTER
July 12, 2015 6:40 p.m. ET

出版社のハーパーコリンズとウォールストリートジャーナルはいずれもマードックのNews Corpの子会社なので、WSJがいろいろと関連記事を載せている感じですが、批判的な書評もWSJで載せていますので、日本のメディアよりはオープンではないでしょうか。

Jul 10, 2015 BOOKS
Early Reviews of ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Are Out: Atticus Is No Saint
By JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG

そうなるとBusinessweekはライバルのブルームバーグだからカバーストーリーで金儲けに走っているハーパーリーたちとまとめたのかと勘ぐりたくなります。To Kill a Mockingbirdの成功によってこのフレーズはこの作品しか示さなくなってしまったようですが、Businessweekの記事によると南部表現のようです。

When I got to Monroeville, I found the town embroiled in a new squabble. It started in 2012 when Lee applied for a trademark on To Kill a Mockingbird merchandise. The Monroe County Heritage Museum, which sells mockingbird ornaments, T-shirts, and tea towels in its gift shop, opposed the application. “We said it’s a colloquial type of Southern thing, the phrase, ‘It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird,’ and it should not be trademarked,” says Tom Lomenick, president of the museum’s board of directors. Lee sued the museum. They settled out of court. The mockingbird knickknacks are still for sale.

To Kill a Mockingbirdは多くの学校で指定図書になっているせいか、語注などをさまざまなサイトで紹介してくれています。いろいろ参照できそうなので英語学習者としても取り組みやすいかもしれません。

what is the meaning of the title phase "It's a sin to kill a Mockingbird"
This is because mockingbirds merely bring beauty and happiness into the world. At one point Miss. Maudie explains,
"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mocking bird."

The title refers to innocent people like Tom Robinson and Boo Radley who, like the mockingbird, only wish to bring a little happiness into a harsh world.

さて、WSJの辛口書評でProperly speaking, “Go Set a Watchman” is a practice run for “To Kill a Mockingbird,”と習作にすぎないと書いています。

But the anticipation has somewhat obscured the awkward details about “Go Set a Watchman,” as the novel is called (the title comes from the Book of Isaiah). Although it is set in the mid-1950s, around 20 years after “To Kill a Mockingbird,” it is not a sequel. Ms. Lee, who is now 89, wrote it first, submitted it to a publisher in 1957 and, on an editor’s advice, refashioned it into the book that’s now assigned in grade schools all over the country. Properly speaking, “Go Set a Watchman” is a practice run for “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and it existed before anybody could have known that small-town Alabama lawyer Atticus Finch would become a symbol of the nation’s moral conscience.

A HARPER LEE TIMELINE
1957: Harper Lee submits ‘Go Set a Watchman,’ a novel set in the 1950s featuring Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch as an adult. Lee’s editor suggests she write instead about Scout as a girl. The resulting book, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is set in the 1930s.
1960: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is published.
1961: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
1962: The film of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ (below) is released. The movie, which wins three Academy awards, stars Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch and Robert Duvall as Boo Radley and has a screenplay by Horton Foote.
2015: HarperCollins announces that the manuscript of ‘Go Set a Watchman’ has been rediscovered. It will be published July 14.

the title comes from the Book of Isaiahとあったので、旧約聖書のイザヤ書でGo Set a Watchmanを調べてみたところ、イザヤ書/ 21章 06節に「わが主はわたしにこう言われた。「さあ、見張りを立てよ。見るところを報告させよ。」とありました。

1:イザヤ書/ 21章 01節
海の荒れ野についての託宣。ネゲブに吹き荒れるつむじ風のように彼は来る／荒れ野から、恐ろしい地から。
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

厳しい幻が、わたしに示された。「欺く者は欺き続け／荒らす者は荒らし続けている。上れ、エラムよ／包囲せよ、メディアよ／わたしは呻きをすべて終わらせる。」
2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.


それゆえ、わたしの腰は激しくもだえ／産婦の痛みのような痛みにとらえられた。わたしは驚きのあまり、聞くこともできず／恐れのあまり、見ることもできない。
3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

わが心は乱れ、おののきが、わたしを打ちのめす。楽しみにしていた夕暮れは／かえって、わたしを恐怖に突き落とした。
4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

宴は広げられ、座は整えられ／人々は飲み食いしていた。「立て、武将たちよ／盾に、油を塗れ。」
5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

わが主はわたしにこう言われた。「さあ、見張りを立てよ。見るところを報告させよ。
6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

彼は見るであろう。二頭立ての戦車を／ろばに乗る者、らくだに乗る者を。耳をそばだてて聞け、油断するな。」
7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:

見張りは叫んだ。「わが主よ、見張り台に／わたしは一日中立ち尽くし／歩哨の部署に／わたしは夜通しついていた。
8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:

見よ、あそこにやって来た／二頭立ての戦車を駆る者が。」その人は叫んで、言った。「倒れた、倒れた、バビロンが。神々の像はすべて砕かれ、地に落ちた。」
9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

打たれ、踏みにじられたわたしの民よ／わたしは、あなたたちに告げた／イスラエルの神、万軍の主から／わたしが聞いたことを。
10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

ドマについての託宣。セイルから、わたしを呼ぶ者がある。「見張りの者よ、今は夜の何どきか／見張りの者よ、夜の何どきなのか。」
11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

見張りの者は言った。「夜明けは近づいている、しかしまだ夜なのだ。どうしても尋ねたいならば、尋ねよ／もう一度来るがよい。」
12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.