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Chapter 458
Detective novels belong to popular literature and are similar to online novels to a certain extent. The content of the novels focuses on fun, and the depth of the theme and the writing style are not very important.
Looking at Japan's early mystery literature, it was more or less a matter of curiosity, until the emergence of Matsumoto Seicho's social mystery, which combined mystery with the social phenomena of the time and expanded the depth of this type of novel.
The next twenty years were dominated by social reasoning.
But readers gradually became bored, and the development of detective novels reached a bottleneck.
In order to promote the creation of mystery literature, a magazine called "Phantom City" was founded in the 1970s. At the same time, essay competitions were held regularly to discover potential new writers.
Just like "Mengya" and the New Concept Writing Competition.
Although this magazine ceased publication after only four years, it did cultivate a new generation of backbone writers of mystery novels after Edogawa Ranpo, Morishita Amemura, and Ōshita Utsuji.
Among them is a man named Lian Cheng Sanjiyan, who used his unique writing style to elevate the mystery novel to an insurmountable height.
He combines the Japanese style of mono no aware with an antique and delicate writing style to blend love and reasoning. Some people call him the Yasunari Kawabata of the mystery world.
"A Platycodon Flower" is one of his flower burial series.
This series of short stories is a collection of eight mystery stories written throughout his career using flowers as metaphors. They are known as "the most beautiful and graceful flowers in the history of mystery."
Certified by the Fuso Mystery Writers Association as "undoubtedly representing the highest achievement of Japanese mystery novels"
In his previous life, many people were familiar with Keigo Higashino, who drew inspiration from his works in the creation of female characters in his works.
If we say that Soji Shimada in his previous life created his own style with his creativity, then Renjo Mikihiko created his own style in the mystery world with his writing.
The translation went much faster than expected. The next day after Yoshio Uraguchi agreed to take on the job and left with the manuscript, the novel translated into Japanese was sent back.
After receiving it, Shen Chuan read it himself and felt it was perfect.
After contacting Yang Xiuxiu, he uploaded it to the social platform.
This is Lu Qingfeng's personal account overseas. Due to the publicity and controversy during this period, it has over one million followers. The content previously posted were some past tweets related to him and recent real-time developments, which were synchronized with the domestic situation.
There are also some content that is unique to Fuso, such as the recommendation of "Astrology Murder Magic" and the reprint of the official news of "Novel Gem" magazine.
Because of the controversy surrounding the new genre, his account is currently very popular.
As soon as the tweet was released, many people noticed it.
As the first Chinese writer to publish a book in the Japanese market and cause such a big controversy, most writers in the mystery world have criticized him more than praised him, and are watching the reputation of a novel that has pioneered a new era in mystery writing collapse.
There has been no movement from the publishing house or him so far.
Even when readers who liked the book had almost lost the motivation to show their support, they finally began to respond to this matter.
Passersby, fans, and even people who don't like him clicked on this article out of curiosity.
Things are sad, mysterious, and wabi-sabi.
At the beginning of the 20th century, when Yasunari Kawabata used works such as "Snow Country", "The Dancing Girl of Izu", "Thousand Paper Cranes" and "The Old Capital" to write about the beauty of mono no aware to the extreme, the whole of Japan was fascinated by his words.
No Japanese could have imagined that in the 21st century, a Chinese teenager would use words to recreate the aesthetic qualities of this image of death before their eyes.
The extremely delicate emotional description, the complex and fiery psychological portrayal, and the poignant scenes created by the poetic words make everyone feel that what they are reading is not a mystery story.
Rather, they are pure literary works such as "Snow Country" and "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion".
The pure and almost flawless feelings, like the gentian flower on the windowsill, fall into the reader's heart.
I felt so sad after reading it, especially when the final letter revealed the truth. I almost cried. The author is obviously a man, so how could he describe the psychology of women so well?
[A shocking motive, but also reasonable. Because of the terrible environment, even the slightest trace of tenderness that flows out inadvertently can become a reason to fall in love with someone. Like a madman, he longs to see that face, so he does not hesitate to commit crimes. It is sad and lamentable.]
I think the motivation is quite realistic. In our country, many women choose to join the sex trade just to meet their favorite gigolos. The story is fictional, but it's not far from reality.
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It's no secret that Japan's sex industry is thriving. If you stroll around Shinjuku at night, you'll see plenty of erotic billboards openly displayed in front of shops.
Because of the repressive social atmosphere, it is very common for men and women to find entertainment venues to vent their emotions in daily life in Japan.
"A Platycodon Flower" touched the hearts of the Japanese people in this respect.
[It feels like this novel was written specifically to criticize Tomogoro Fujimoto for his poor writing style and weak motivation.]
[A cool counterattack, as if telling those people, it’s not that I can’t write well, I just don’t want to write.]
[This feeling is like being completely obsessed with a god who doesn't bother with mortals.]
I don't know what Fujimoto and his colleagues will say. There's no reason to do this now. If they continue to raise these issues, I'd like them to respond with similar works. Writers should prove themselves with their writing.
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With such a big fuss about traditional Japanese mystery writers led by Tomogoro Fujimoto, everyone who should know about this understands the reason why this article appeared.
It is a way for Chinese writers to prove their own creations.
Even those who don't like Lu Qingfeng can't find fault with this article.
Because it was so in line with the aesthetic taste of the Japanese people, those who said the article was bad could not come up with a better article, and for a time, the group opposing the new orthodox style remained silent.
The momentum of the supporters has increased significantly.
"A Platycodon Flower" became more and more popular, and by the evening, a literary writer finally published an article.
[Love has always been an eternal theme in literary creation and is often used in mystery novels. However, for most mystery writers, how to combine the two brilliantly has always been a big challenge.
Detective novels must be rational, but the charm of love is the opposite of reasoning. In 1934, Agatha Christie had the great detective Poirot let the murderer go in the end in "Murder on the Orient Express", allowing the rational image of the detective to show his emotional side.
"A Platycodon Flower" uses another creative method to illustrate that detective novels can not only write about cold tricks, but also about tender and timid love.
When I read this article carefully, I was surprised that the author is a Chinese.
But then I thought, someone who could understand the geography of Japan so thoroughly in the previous novel must be someone who would tirelessly explore the culture of other countries in depth in order to write a book.
I felt relieved, but then came shame.
Because I can’t write words like this. 】
The author of the post is called Gojo Shigenobu, a popular writer in Japan. His works are always on the annual sales rankings, and are guaranteed to be best-sellers. He is also very popular in China.