"If you fight with the dragon for too long, you will become a dragon yourself; if you stare into the abyss for too long, the abyss will return to stare." --- Nietzsche, The Other Side of Good and Evil
I don't know if you remember the 90s, Tsinghua famous school poisoning case, in this case, known as the "most perfect girl" Zhu Ling finally became a vegetative person, unable to speak, unable to move, and finally the intelligence is only as high as a six- or seven-year-old child. 27 years later, the case has not yet been resolved, and the murderer is at large, which makes people feel sad when they think of it.
Zhu Ling's family is a typical high-level intellectual family, his father Wu Chengzhi is a senior engineer of the National Earthquake Administration, his mother Zhu Mingxin is a senior engineer of China Sino-Ocean Corporation, she and her sister are both genius-level players, both admitted to Tsinghua University with excellent results, whether it is reading literature and art, or playing the piano and dancing are all proficient, but in the end they were all tragically poisoned, the sister accidentally fell off a cliff in a spring trip, and Zhu Ling was also poisoned twice, and finally pulled down the altar of "perfect girl".
Although there is no clear outcome of the case, the killer has always been suspected of being a classmate or roommate.
Therefore, whenever there is a "poisoning" case in colleges and universities, there will be students who jokingly say: "Thank you for the grace of not killing your roommates"!
It is really ironic, thinking that the pillar of the country in people's mouths, the hope of tomorrow is this moral quality, which inevitably makes people have a pessimistic understanding of human nature.
And The book "Malice" by Keigo Higashino shows the dark side of human nature to the fullest, making people feel weak and their backs are cold after reading.
There is a kind of malice that I hate you, inexplicably look at you unhappy, hate you for no reason, obviously you are my closest friend, obviously you are so kind, obviously you know my obscene past and help me keep it secret, obviously you have been helping me achieve my ideals. But I just hate you.
I hate you for preemptively realizing my ideals, I hate your superior life, I hate that you who I despised so much now have a bright future, I hate my own cowardice, I hate my own lack of luck, I hate myself for getting cancer before I have time to succeed.
I give you all my hatred for myself, and I use it all to hate you. Well, before I die, kill you. Let you go to hell with the name of the world. After you die, I will continue to hate you.
What kind of hatred is this? So much so that in the end, Officer Kaga sighed:
"Even if you are arrested, you are not afraid, even if you gamble on what you have left in your life, you must degrade the personality of the other party." What kind of mentality is this? To be honest, I can't find any logical reason. Mr. Noguchi, are you too? Maybe you can't tell for yourself. ”
Shu Noguchi is the perpetrator of the case, a writer of children's literature, a former Language teacher, and a senior of Officer Kaga's teachers, a friend of the victim, Kunihiko Hidaka, and a classmate of middle school students.
They all encountered school violence during their student years, and later Noguchi Osamu was one of the perpetrators of violence, only Hidaka Kunihiko resisted malice, always adhered to his principles, treated others in the sun, and he knew all about Noguchi's past, but still did his best to help Noguchi shu realize his dream of becoming a novelist.
It is precisely because of this that it stung Noguchi's sensitive heart, the kinder Hidaka became, the more he showed his own vulnerability, why is it always someone else who is going well, not himself? Jealousy drives people crazy, and Noguchi is caught by the demonic beast in his heart and has a motive to kill.
Yes, motivation is jealousy, and two-thirds of novels are written around motivation, which is uncommon in previous speculative fiction, so how does the author show it?
Through Noguchi's confessional notes, in fact, handwritten narration has always been the usual expression of speculative fiction, first-person perspective is easy to promote the reader to have a sense of substitution, and while immersed in the scene, the potential assimilation of perspective and feelings makes the author have a better chance, smoother and more reasonable use of psychological blind spots to skillfully lay out puzzles, fascinating.
Since the 1980s, the Japanese neo-Benge reasoning trend has gone further down this path, and the extension of narrative ruse has been repeatedly expanded, gradually pushing the first-person perspective to another pole of "absolute untrustworthiness".
To some extent, the object of deception is the reader, or other characters in the story, is a dividing line to distinguish whether the first-person perspective narrative belongs to the category of narrative trickery, the handwritten narrative in "Malice", in general, does not move towards the other side of the narrative trick, the use of the two-line structure is exquisite and atmospheric, with the reading process, the reader must constantly go back to the previous text, revise their positions and speculations again and again, in the process of the novel's extension from straight into the single to the three-dimensional labyrinth, the pleasure of reading is therefore greatly explored.
Therefore, the novel "Malice" has also received a lot of praise, with unique intentions, suitable narrative skills, and a lively reading experience that makes readers can't help but sigh: "Not reading "Malice" is equivalent to not reading Kiyo Higashino's book." The stone god tore his heart and lungs and vomited out his soul, Yukiho turned away and did not look back, Kaga unveiled the veil of malice but it was still difficult to peek into the depths of his opponent's state of mind. Sure enough, there are only two things in this world that cannot be looked at directly, one is the sun, and the other is the human heart.
