Edogawa Ranho and Higashino Keigo are both famous Japanese novelists. Under the influence of my son, I started to read Higashino Keigo's novels last year, "White Night Walk", "Haltery", "Devotion of Suspect X" and "Meteor no Kizuna" ……After reading each book, I still feel unfinished, and I want to keep reading. Last week, I came into contact with Edogawa Ranbu’s novel "The Ghost of the Isolated Island" for the first time. Although I only read this book, I fell in love with this creative technique and gained a better understanding of Edogawa Ranbu. .
Edogawa Ranbu
has something in common: the same mystery writer
Edogawa Ranbu is Japan’s most famous mystery writer and critic, and is also known as Japan’s "father of detective mystery" , only 1925 Published 17 short articles and 6 essays every year. It was the most productive year for Edogawa Ranbu, , and also the year he established his immovable position in the popular literary world.
In order to encourage newcomers to create, Edogawa Ranbu at the 60-year-old birthday party , to revitalize Japanese mystery, provided one million yen as a fund to the Japanese detectives club, established Edogawa Ran step award .
Keigo Higashino
Keigo Higashino has published 94 novels so far. In 1981, he made it his goal to participate in the Edogawa Ranbu Prize. In 1982 and 1983, Keigo Higashino participated in the 29th Ranbu Award with "Dolls' House" and entered the second round of preliminaries; in 1984, Keigo Higashino entered the 30th Ranbu Award with "Magic Ball" and was shortlisted , Only one step away from receiving the grand prize; in 1985, he finally won the 31st Edogawa Ranbu Award for his campus youth mystery novel "After School", and since then became a professional writer and began to write full-time.
Keigo Higashino’s novels are, in general, accidental. Whether it’s "Malicious" or "Worry-free Grocery Store", sometimes you will know in advance who the murderer is. When watching "Meteor no Kizuna", we follow the development of the plot. When it was determined that the suspect must be him, Keigo Higashino of cleverly turned the pen, the plot was reversed, and an unexpected ending appeared. I think this is the attraction of the mystery. What
has in common: the same interest
Interest is the best teacher, Edogawa Ranbu, who was in middle school, began to have an interest in mystery novels, and received a lot of Holmes probes from Poe and Conan Doyle. After the case, Edogawa Ranbu began to read a lot and sorted and bound his reading notes into "Odd Tan".
Edogawa Ranbu has been in poor health since he was a child, and he often stayed in bed after falling sick. His mother began to tell him about Kuroiwa’s translation of European and American detective novels. These novels cultivated his interest in detective novels in his young mind, Later, when Edogawa Ranbu began to write, he would often think of the detective novels his mother told him when he was young. Based on these novels, he thought hard and wrote two detective novels: "Two Coins Copper Plate" "And "A Ticket".
This time , he began to use the pen name Edogawa Ranbu . The Japanese pronunciation of this pen name is "Aitga Wallen Poe", which is based on the homophony of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, the originator of the mystery novel. , Which means that the author admires Poe.
"The Ghost of the Isolated Island"
When he was a child, Keigo Higashino would consider trying and experiencing what he was interested in. For example, after reading a funny comic, you will think about drawing one yourself. Before
middle school, Keigo Higashino didn't like to read books. By chance, he read a mystery novel with high school students as the protagonist-Edogawa Ranbu Award works, and "Archimedes Borrowing a Knife to Kill" by Omine Moto. After reading
Keigo Higashino once said: " I think such novels are really interesting... I seem to be able to write and read. " Based on this confidence, Keigo Higashino resigned and started writing full-time.
The highest honor for Japanese popular literature is the Naoki Award, which Keigo Higashino dreams of wanting to get, but he has failed again and again. He once wondered whether he would miss the Naoki Award for life?
"Devotion of Suspect X"
In 2006, Keigo Higashino with the determination of "If you fail to succeed, you will become a benevolent" , he wrote "The Dedication of Suspect X.
Keigo Higashino said "This is the best trick I can think of, the purest love" . As soon as
"Devotion of Suspect X" was released, the sales volume immediately exceeded one million copies, and readers responded strongly.
The 134th Naoki Award was awarded to "Suspect X's Devotion". Keigo Higashino also removed the hat of "the man most disgusted by the Naoki Award" and established the status of "the first person in Japan to reason." Keigo Higashino once said at a press conference: "I won today. It feels really good." The thinking of
novel plot
Edogawa Ranbu's work, the plot is complicated and confusing, the suspense is strong, full of evil and absurdity ; The psychological description and plot laying of Higashino Keigo's works are also impeccable.
However, even though I know that the novels are all fictitious, in the plot of the book, I found that the protagonist in the work is actually placed in today's society and may have a different ending.
In "The Ghost of the Isolated Island", the adoptive father of Michio Toto, Jogoro, because of his ugly appearance and being rejected by others, has produced a deformed mentality towards normal people, thinking that all normal people are their own enemies, not only hate normal people. He also tried every means to transform normal people into disabled people through abnormal channels, and let these disabled people live on the dark Iwaya Island like him.
It is precisely because of the influence of the environment that Jogoro not only poisoned the people around him, but was also extremely greedy, trying to attribute the treasure to his own, but finally got the treasure, but he went crazy, and the world has nothing to do with him anymore.
In Keigo Higashino’s novel "Meteor Trip", three orphans who lost their parents accidentally were sent to an orphanage. After they became adults, they did not have a correct outlook on life. Under the influence of the general environment, they began to become greedy, helpless, and then Embarking on the path of crime, if someone can give them the correct guidance after they reach adulthood, they may have different results in their lives.
Whether it’s Edogawa Ranbu or Higashino Keigo, their works have brought us extraordinary surprises. I once thought about creating novels, but I couldn’t write anything. In the final analysis, I still read too little. what.
However, we can be like the two writers , and regard our interests as the best teacher . After reading a lot of this kind of novels, maybe one day, we might say what Keigo Higashino said: "I think so "'S novel is really interesting,... it seems that I can write and read."
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