When it comes to Japanese mystery writers, the first thing that many people think of is probably Keigo Higashino.
How hot is Keigo Higashino?
In the domestic market, it can almost be described as "top stream", and his books "sell well and sell well" and are deeply loved by the majority of readers.
Keigo Higashino's attention and subscriber numbers have been ahead of the curve for many years, and they have been firmly in the first place.
But if we talk about the "father of Japanese reasoning", it must be the Edogawa chaos.
In a sense, Edo can be said to be Keigo Higashino's master.
In 1985, Keigo Higashino won the "Edogawa Random Step Award" for one of his early masterpieces, "After School".
It is precisely because of the success of "After School" that Keigo Higashino debuted in C position and began to write full-time, and slowly had the familiar "White Night Walking" and "Relief Grocery Store" that we are familiar with.
Edogawa is walking chaotic, who is it?
"He is the founder of the Japanese reasoning 'Benge School' and a world-renowned reasoning writer;
His status in the Japanese reasoning community is equivalent to Conan Doyle's status in European and American detective novels;
His novel character, Wise Kogoro, was an idol in the hearts of countless people in Japan in the forties and fifties..."
The "Edogawa Random Step Award" named after him had a great influence on the development of the later generation of speculative novelists and the "Benguet" reasoning department.
For example, the work "Detective Conan", the once popular Japanese drama "Your Turn", and the "Panorama Island Strange Story" in which Edogawa chaotic steps appeared, are all considered to pay tribute to the Edogawa chaos.
So, why does the Edogawa chaos have such a high status?
First, it has to do with the dark aesthetic novels he wrote.
If you have read the short story "The Human Chair", you will be shocked by the thrilling details in the book.
One day, the beautiful writer, the heroine of the story, received a letter.
The person who wrote the letter was an extremely ugly craftsman who specialized in making large chairs.
One day the craftsman had a whim and "loaded" himself into a chair, wanting to do something "interesting".
At first he planned to steal a little and stop it, but later, through the chair, he peeked into the world in the hotel day after day, to feel the "warmth of the world" he wanted...
He became unable to extricate himself from this human contact through the sofa skin.
The chair was transferred from the hotel to the second-hand store, and then bought by the heroine's husband and placed in the study for his beloved wife to use every day.
The chair craftsman shrunk in the chair during the day, day and night, looking at the heroine day by day, and trembling by the heroine's gentle beauty and soft body day by day.
He fell in love with the heroine at first sight, and goodbye, he fell deeply in love with her.
Illustration of "The Human Chair"
The sickly peeping hidden in the chair in the darkness, the strange and tangled human desire, the humble and terrifying deliberately lowered courtship gesture...
People can't help but get goosebumps all over the floor when they see it, and they are scared to leave the chair they are sitting in while reading!
And when I read the second letter, I had to sigh at the author's divine pen.
In fact, the more frightening and confusing and the more gloomy and windy, the more morbid and evocative it feels!
Someone commented on the film "Human Chair" based on the novel of the same name:
"The bizarre pictures, the actor's monologue, and the light girl's monologue vividly express the ultimate perverted desire in a person's heart, and also make the audience like the female writer in the story, born of infinite coolness from the bottom of their hearts, feeling frightened and afraid."
Can't agree more.
The words of Edogawa's chaotic steps are bizarre with classical, morbid with vigilance... Tiled realistic, thrilling and weird, it is worthy of being a classic in the speculative fiction industry.
Second, it has to do with his personal contribution.
Edaikawa Ranko, born in 1894, died 1965, real name Hirai Taro.
The first half of his life was rushing, and the second half of his life was devoted to writing, and he has published many mystery novels.
He was prolific, and in 1925, when he was 31 years old, he published seventeen short stories and six essays in just one year, establishing his proud position in the world of speculative literature.
In 1954, when Edogawa was 60 years old, he donated 1 million yen to the Japan Detective Writers Club to set up a fund to commemorate his Hanajia year, and later established the "Edogawa Random Step Award" in his name.
In Japan, the "Edogawa Random Step Prize" can be described as the "Nobel Prize" in the Japanese speculative fiction industry, and many speculative novelists have debuted from this award.
It is no exaggeration to say that without the Edogawa chaos, there would be no Japanese mystery novel.
Reading Edogawa's novels carefully, you will always be amazed and amazed by his ideas, and when you see the end, you can't help but slap your thigh and shout: "Wonderful!" ”
Indeed, it's wonderful!
Many unexpected settings and reversals, placed in today's speculative novels, are not outdated at all.
In fact, some of his ingenuity is often "melted" by later generations in the form of "tribute".
His story will not deliberately emphasize the right and wrong of things, and will not tell you his view of right and wrong in words.
But "the plot is confusing, the suspense is strong, full of evil and absurd atmosphere", I can't help but read it again and again, and the meaning is still unfinished and particularly emotional.
Third, the hunt wins, cold and weird
Back to the book "The Human Chair" Edogawa Random Adventure.
In addition to the "Human Chair" introduced earlier, the book also includes 7 other short stories, all of which are "word-of-mouth and breathless" reasoning stories, such as "Mirror Hell", "Dr. Muluo", "Mars Canal" and so on.
Every story is an amazing adventure, with the illustrations in the book, and the enchanting beauty comes to the face.
Most of the protagonists in the short stories are not normal.
Or in the eyes of normal people, they are always so maverick and out of place, some are paranoid, some are arrogant, and some are extremely dark...
Or, as described in the book: "The more generous and kind a person behaves, the easier it is to become a disciple of the devil?" ”
The second story, "Taro", is a novel related to war.
Lieutenant Suinaga, who had no limbs to retrieve a life from the battlefield, returned to a life of chicken feathers and the embarrassing predicament of not being able to take care of himself after the war, after being briefly and frequently reported by the media after the war.
The kind and weak wife in the eyes of outsiders is a crazy erotic abuser in the dark, and she "has a creepy lust ghost in her heart."
She is a victim of war, but she is also a cold-eyed bystander who inflicts violence on her husband in the "yellow ball of flesh", which is extremely realistic and powerless.
The third "Yin Beast" can be said to be a "fighting method" between the author and the protagonist set by the author.
The author connects many of his works, setting Mrs. Shizuko as a magical woman with a triangle alone.
She "sat on a loose bed covered with pure white sheets, wearing a gorgeous Yuki silk single kimono, an embroidered black satin belt with a plane leaf pattern, and a round bun with enchanting hair." ”
It looks like everything is just right, but, "There is no doubt that Haruhi must be hiding somewhere, staring at the whole course of events with femme fatale eyes." ”
Who exactly is the praying mantis and who is the yellow finch? At the end of the article, it did not explain who the real murderer was.
An open-ended ending, or is it to leave more room for the reader to be possible? So guess who is behind that?
Light and darkness, intrigue and trickery, secrecy and trickery, the good and evil of human nature, can also stir up the waves in your heart?
Edogawa once wrote in the book: "What strange and terrifying things are happening in the world in the corners that people cannot see, which is completely beyond people's imagination." ”
Or, "I can't be satisfied with yesterday today, and tomorrow I feel that today's gameplay is not exciting enough." ”
It is especially recommended that you also read "The Human Chair" to appreciate the strange and terrifying human affairs.
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