#秋日生活打卡季 #
Regarding the old man of Edogawa's chaotic steps, it is not an exaggeration to call it the founder of Japanese mystery novels. But whenever the mouse points out the name, a long list of books comes out after it. This tireless author not only focuses on writing mystery novels, focusing on tricks, strange stories, and curiosity, but also sets awards to support juniors. The series of selected works published by the Reader Suspense Bunko is not classified by the time of publication, but by the content of the theme. "The Human Chair: Edogawa Random Steps", "Walker on the Ceiling: Edogawa Random Detective Chapter", "Red Room: Edogawa Random Steps" and so on are being published one after another.
Seven declension short pinnacle works and three author's self-reported "Human Chairs" will be creepy when you look at the cover, simply and directly push the curiosity and horror in front of the reader, and make people involuntarily turn the pages between dare and dare not to carry out a trembling reading pleasure journey.
The first story in the book is "The Human Chair", and the intuitive feeling after reading this article is that halfway through reading it, I am already standing away from my chair, although I know that the chair I am sitting in is ordinary and does not have any mechanism design. Reading the end, I can't help but sigh at the author's brain hole and the divine turn at the end. The deformed psychology of the craftsman's morbid hobby in the story revealed in the letter is strange and shocking. The contact of eyes and bodies with others in the dark is a difficult class and social reality to cross.
What kind of inspiration made the old man Edogawa have this whimsy "If people become chairs, it must be interesting", and turning to a "Desire to Transform" later in the book can give a glimpse of the author's writing ideas. The idea of Edogawa's chaotic steps came early on from his own absurd imagination and the delicate sensitivity unique to his childhood. The idea of man becoming a chair comes from the oldest human desire to become something else. In fairy tales and myths, people can shrink and become insects, ants and gods and Buddhas, and there are countless cases of "transformation wishes" in the history of literature, and the transformation in speculative novels is more complicated, not as simple as simple makeup and cross-dressing. For example, "Taro" and "Mirror Hell" in this book belong to the transformation of contemplation and extreme fear.
"Taro" is a novel related to war, seemingly terrifying but bloody reality in social reality. Whether the war is won or lost, those lucky enough to return home will always carry scars on the outside or inside, such as the British novelist D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Tyrais's Lover" and the film "Forrest Gump" based on the original novel by American writer Winston Grajam have all been hurt by war. The wounded Lieutenant Suinaga in "Taro" is a yellow ball of meat in his wife's heart after a brief post-war honor, and the care of his wife has also changed in the long daily care, "deep down there is a creepy lustful ghost", in her heart, her husband is no longer a person, but a bred animal or some kind of tool.
Turning the accusation of war into such a naked horror story is as heavy as the ending "a dull sound of falling water from the distant underground", the war has transformed everyone, and honor and survival have become the cruel chains of the couple, locking their expectations for a better life, and locking their good years, everything has become nothingness and living like an animal like a worm.
And "Yin Beast" can be regarded as the author's eerie and dazzling work, and he strung many of his works in it. The text has the cocoons of the "Wise Little Goro" series, with the trick of transformation, but more is to shape the protagonist Shizuko, a magical woman who is beautiful and intelligent and enchanting, looking back at Gu Panchu Chu moving, able to provoke the love and pity of all men, the intimidation, murder and abnormal love around her are gradually charming eyes, and I don't know who the real murderer is.
The people in the chair and the faces in the mirror house, the yin beasts that change their identities, and all kinds of crazy behaviors are all important components of horror novels such as the mirror house and the Miaoling woman that often appear in Edogawa's works, and with the illustrations in this book, there is a kind of destruction of the beauty of the picture, which can mobilize the reader's inner waves, light and darkness, intrigue and human weakness, and are torn apart in the secret and treacherous story of human character.