Gonzoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: gŏnʹzō
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑnzoʊ/
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɒnzəʊ/
• 韻: -ɒnzəʊ

形容詞

gonzo (comparative more gonzo, superlative most gonzo)

1. (journalism) Using an unconventional, exaggerated and highly subjective style, often when the reporter takes part in the events of the story.
   • 1972, Richard Pollack, chapter VI, in Stop the Presses, I Want to Get Off!:

     I ask Hunter to explain... Just what is Gonzo Journalism?.. “Gonzo all started with Bill Cardosa [sic],..after I wrote the Kentucky Derby piece for Scanlan's..the first time I realized you could write different. And..I got this note from Cardosa saying, ‘That was pure Gonzo journalism!’.. Some Boston word for weird, bizarre.”

2. Unconventional, bizarre, crazy. [from 1974]^[3]
   • 2007, Mark Dery, The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink‎^[1], page 121:

     Nicholson’s Torrance is an evil clown […] Appropriately, pop culture has embraced him as a gonzo antihero: ads for T-shirts emblazoned with the “Here’s Johnny” Nicholson

   • 2021, Peter Oborne, The Assault on Truth, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 62:

     Johnson abandoned all of these [values] for a narcissism that mocked the style of straightforward, sober, serious, self effacing politics of the post-war era. He turned his back on the public domain and the ideas of duty, honour and obligation that defined it. For him, politics was a personal story which saw the evolution of Britain's first gonzo political journalist into our first gonzo prime minister.

派生語

• gonzo journalism

名詞

gonzo (複数形 gonzos)

1. Gonzo journalism or a journalist who produces such journalism.
   • 2000, Hunter S. Thompson and Douglas Brinkley, Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, 1968-1976:

     “Unstable,” indeed! Those swine. Next year we should demand a Gonzo category—or maybe RS should give it. Of course. “The First Annual Rolling Stone Award for the Year's Finest Example of Pure Gonzo Journalism.”

2. A wild or crazy person.

参照

Further reading

• gonzo on Wikipedia.