We've all seen "Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection" and "Detective Conan", which are the most famous detective mystery novels. According to the trend of the case in the novel and the TV series, the tense atmosphere created by the speculative novel makes us feel up and down, sometimes nervous, sometimes relaxed, this sense of tension and urgency, so that readers who like to watch speculative fiction are fascinated.
In fact, the initiator of speculative fiction is Edgar Allan Poe, who is a famous American novelist and critic. Speculative fiction originated in the United States but developed in Japan, and Japanese speculative fiction has developed into its own system over the years, and has spawned many genres and branches.
Kiyoharu Matsumoto is Japan's most important speculative writer, and his works enjoy a high status in the Japanese literary world. His work and the spirit of reasoning have influenced many descendants. His influence includes keigo Higashino, Miyuki Miyabe, Seiichi Morimura, and many other social writers.
First, he is Kiyoharu Matsumoto, and his bumpy experience has left him upside down
Born into a family of traders, Matsumoto Kiyoharu went to school and worked like many ordinary children, and at first he did not want to follow the path of novels.
Because the family conditions are not good, so I did not read a lot of books and dropped out of school, teenagers worked, many jobs have been done, and the experience of teenagers is quite bumpy.
After entering the newspaper office, I thought I could settle down, but I did not expect that the war had begun again. He was forced to participate in the Korean War, worked as a wartime health soldier, and returned to the newspaper after the war.
His experience has been full of twists and turns, so it gives people a melancholy feeling from the image. The poverty of his family from childhood, the war when he grew up, and the need to support his family, I think literature did not think about it at all when he was young, because it was too luxurious.
Second, this literary and artistic youth has some hindsight, but he became a hit
Speaking of his fate with literature, it is because of a competition for literary works. At that time, he was 41 years old, which means that at the age of 41, he really began to contact literature, contact with words, and eat on words.
He won the 3rd prize in this competition and has been out of control ever since. It may be that after years of accumulation, he began to win awards frequently, and his works appeared in major newspapers and magazines, and began to emerge in the literary world.
I have to say that this literary and artistic youth has hindsight, of course, he may have experienced many years of dormancy, so his talent burst out. With fame, he began to join the Writers' Association, and his position and status in the newspaper also increased.
His achievements have allowed him to live the life of a professional writer since then, and the living conditions of his family have been better. He topped the list of best-selling japanese authors for many years, and with fame and money, he brought his family to live together, which is exactly what happened to the double harvest.
Third, the rise of the originator of Japanese social reasoning novels is inseparable from the era in which he grew up
Kiyoharu Matsumoto has created many works that have influenced the Japanese literary scene, such as "The Black Mist of Japan", "Points and Lines", "Killing Intention", "Accomplice" and so on. Because of his realism and authenticity, he has gained a lot of fans, a lot of praise, and of course controversial and critical remarks.
His work is inseparable from his time, and the era in which he lived was full of poverty and war, so it created his suffering experience and was the source of inspiration for his literary works. So, it's as if everything is a double-edged sword, with pros and cons, both positive and negative.
Relying on his own efforts and literary achievements, he realized his literary dream and realized the leap of class. The originator of speculative fiction is inseparable from his time and his experience.
He used his literary qualities to leave a deep cultural accumulation for the Japanese literary circle, and also provided a way of thinking for future generations of literary enthusiasts.
Speculative fiction is a kind of novel that solves the mystery of the story (mostly to find the murderer) by reasoning, usually the story contains murder and detective, and some of them are not based on murder as the main plot trend, such as finding lost objects or solving the mystery of strange events, etc., but it is not always the detective who uncovers the mystery.
Kiyoharu Matsumoto's social speculative fiction works, step by step, reveal the inside story in a direct way, leaving a deep impression on readers. He uses reasoning to break through the clouds of doubt one by one, to solve doubts, and to give the reader space for imagination in the suspense.
His work is critical and he has his own thinking on social issues. Many people say that reasoning has nothing to do with society and life, but in his works it is not the case at all, he combines the two very well.
"Vulcan Killed" is an important work of Kiyoharu Matsumoto, hiding his life experiences and some of the circumstances of his early writing. Let's delve into his work from point to point, because he deserves it.
Kiyoharu Matsumoto is the writer who has influenced my creative career the most, Keigo Higashino.