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Some people say that not reading Keigo Higashino's "Malice" is equivalent to not reading his novels.
"Malice" is a perfectly skilled handwritten speculative fiction, and the author uses the way of stripping away the cocoon to show the darkness of human nature in front of the reader.
Do you pay your heart and you can sit back and relax? How much malice can human nature tolerate?
After reading the last page, a chill came to my heart.
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< h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > Nono killed Hidaka</h1>
Best-selling author Kunihiko Hidaka was murdered in his study, and officer Kyoichiro Kaga quickly solved the case, and the murderer was Hidaka's friend Shu Nonoguchi.
But for the motive of the crime, Nono flashed his words. After Kaga's careful reasoning, Nono could only explain the reason for the killing.
It turned out that the so-called genius writer Hidaka actually lacked the talent to write, and he used the handle of Nono's affair with his first wife Hatsumi in his hand to force Nono to be his writing gunner. For the sake of first beauty, Nono can only obey.
However, Hatsumi, who is in a trance, dies in a car accident, and Nono decides to take revenge on the hypocrite Hidaka.
Can you close the case? No, the reversal is coming.
Officer Kaga discovers the unfathomable malice of the murderer: not only to kill, but also to curse.
Nono and Hidaka are former junior high school classmates, and the bullying phenomenon in the school is serious, and the bullied Nono soon becomes a follower of the abuser, and also assists in an incident of rape of a girl.
But also a victim of bullying, Hidaka did not give in, and he has been helping the cowardly Nono from his childhood to the present.
How can you be so strong and not succumb to violence? How can you be so noble and bullied and be kind to me? How can you be so successful and still introduce me to a job? But I hate you!" How cowardly, how incompetent, how despicable I am?
I hate myself for this, but I want to put my hatred for myself on you.
Once malice breeds, it is like an inexhaustible wildfire, constantly rising.
What extramarital affairs, what writing gunners, are all fictitious layouts, just to push Rigao into the abyss, with his life, copyright and reputation, because "I don't see you happy."
Boundless malice, bottomless, like an abyss.
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<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > different mystery novels</h1>
In this novel, Keigo Higashino shows superb writing skills.
The narrative angle of the novel is unique: the double first person, respectively, the murderer Shu Noguchi and the police officer Kyoichiro Kaga. The constant switching between the two first-person makes the suspense-puzzle-reversal repeat continuously, making the reader deeply trapped in it and unable to stop.
This kind of writing method is very clever, not only solves a lot of technical problems in the suspense setting, but also naturally promotes the reader's emotions, always following the author's predetermined rhythm.
The most commendable thing is that in the "Chapter of the Past (II)", several people who have intersected with the main characters use the dictation of the third identity to explain a lot of background details. By stitching together these fragmented details, the reader slowly understands the motives of the wild to kill people, both the factors of the original family, the handle of evil in childhood, and the gradual accumulation of jealousy and hatred.
The novel's clever laying of foreshadowing not only hints at the direction of the plot, but also adds to the complexity of human nature.
"Killing the cat" is an important detail at the beginning of the story, which gives the reader a very bad "first impression" of Hidaka shortly after the beginning: this is a cold and cruel person. The reader naturally believes that such a shady person is justified in making "threatening ghostwriting" and "cold violence to hurt his wife", and that the murderer deserves sympathy.
As the plot progresses, the detective finally understands that the "killing of the cat" was actually committed by Nono, another trick he deliberately plotted to blame Hidaka. The reader can't help but take a breath of cool air: human nature is so dark, and stories can be written like this.
"Malicious" is a bit borrowed from Agatha's "Roger's House" in terms of plot arrangement, but the biggest difference from Agatha's speculative novel is that the novel is not oriented to the story in search of the murderer.
At one-third of the novel, the murderer has been identified, and the rest of the book is devoted to finding the motive for the killing. After cracking the motive for the killing, an even greater reversal came: the motive was forged by the murderer.
Why did he falsify his motives? What is the real motive?
Keigo Higashino continues to lead the reader to peel back the cocoon, and the real motive that finally surfaces makes people doubt life: if malice is like hell, there are 18 layers, and Nono's malice has 19 layers.
Such a speculative novel subverts our previous understanding: the contest between the murderer and the detective is not that I want to hide myself, but that I will let you catch it, and then help me to slander the deceased together, so that the deceased will die again after death.
It turns out that killing people is not the goal, but destroying people's reputations; finding out the murderer does not comfort the deceased, and it is only possible to find out the motive.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > the origin of malice</h1>
After reading this novel, I couldn't help but think deeply: Where does the malice of the wild come from?
The causes of malice are strange, some are clear at a glance, and some are confusing. But under scrutiny, the malicious causes of the wild do not actually go beyond the factors that are common in our lives.
When I was in junior high school, because of the move, I changed schools and became a transfer student, so I was caught off guard by school bullying.
At first, everyone alienated me, no one paid attention to me during recess, and I refused to be in a group during pessimistic class.
Slowly, the bullying escalated. My school bag will disappear inexplicably, the back of my clothes will be painted with ink, my chair will suddenly break when I sit down...
They looked at my embarrassment and laughed happily. I once asked the leader, "Why are you bullying me?" ”
"We can't get used to your accent."
Just because I "can't get used to my accent", malice is unleashed arbitrarily, and my dignity is wantonly trampled.
What a simple reason, but it makes me helpless and helpless.
I didn't dare to fight because they were so numerous, all I could do was transfer schools again.
The logic behind "unaccustomed" is that "we can't tolerate you being different from us", and "different" becomes the original sin in the eyes of the bully.
Once hatred arises, malice is boundless.
On March 8, 1935, a generation of film queen Ruan Lingyu committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills, leaving a last word after her death: "People are fearful of words."
Ruan Lingyu's artistic talent and her appearance are the best in any era, but as the saying goes, "Wood shows in the forest, the wind will destroy it", and her life has been hit hard.
The former lover was jealous of her current excellence and not only used all kinds of abusive means to blackmail her, but also sued her in court.
Unscrupulous media took advantage of this to increase circulation and used all kinds of exaggerated and distorted reports to make her a "shameful slut in front of tens of millions of people".
The audience, who usually admired her, turned around and despised her and spurned her.
When Ruan Lingyu shines brightly, she is the envy of everyone. But this envy is not pure, and the hidden question is: Why are you better than me? So there is jealousy in the depths of envy.
Once the idol is in deep trouble, the question becomes: "It turns out that you are not as good as me, usually pretending, right?" ”
Thus, the jealousy that was still hidden was unleashed and the flower of evil blossomed.
Jealousy blossoms with malice, chilling malice.
"The grace of dripping water, when the spring repays each other", but the kindness of a lake full of water may turn into hatred, and "Sheng MiEn Dou Mi Revenge" is a truth.
In "White Deer Plain", the Lu family accepted a lot of kindness from the Bai family, and Lu Wa was taught by her father Lu San from childhood: "We owe the Bai family too much and too much. ”
Lu Wa knows that she should be grateful, but instead of "gratitude" from the heart, it transforms into moral pressure, and once she can't hold back, hatred arises.
When lu wa grew up, instead of repaying the favor, she "revenge the favor" to discount Bai Jiaxuan's waist and threw down a sentence: "Your waist is too hard." ”
Your waist is too hard, doesn't it seem that my waist is too soft?
Isn't your light so dazzling that my meanness has nowhere to hide?
In the end, Lu Wa turned the "Doumi Daeen" given by the Bai family into full of malice, so Bai Jiaxuan's waist could only be broken.
Not all malice can be smoothed out by good intentions, and not all darkness can be melted by the sun.
The murderer in the novel, Nono, and his malice toward Hidaka, cover the above three.
He is unhappy with Hidaka, jealous of Hidaka's life and career, and even more unable to catch Hidaka's sunny goodness, his malice rushes out of hell to burn everything that belongs to Hidaka.
"I just hate you... I will give you all my hatred for myself, to hate you, to send you to hell with the name of the world, and I will continue to hate you after you die! ”
Because of this hatred, Nono embarked on the road of eternal doom.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > "Malicious" is worth a look</h1>
Critics like to discuss Keigo Higashino's "Malice" and his "White Night" together.
The two works have a common feature, that is, it does not matter who the murderer is, and the exploration of the motive is the core.
The author once said: "The monologues of human nature, the coldness of society, these are the propositions that human beings always need to pay attention to." ”
It was also from these two works that Keigo Higashino's writing style changed from the traditional Benge to the social school, and his works paid more attention to the complexity of human nature.
If after watching "White Night", you dare not look directly at the light of the sun, then after watching "Malice", you dare not look directly at the evil of human nature.
If you want to learn more about complex human nature and want to punch into your inherent understanding of "malice," this book is worth a look.
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