Shipu Rondo
Desperate pursuit and comic irony
February 12, 2021
Shipu Rondo
Keigo Higashino
Bakha
2014-01-03
9788965701866
Review
The work intended to proceed as a thriller of a brain fight with an intelligent criminal at the beginning, but moves into the realm of unpredictable comedy.
The miscasting of a clumsy, ordinary, lethargic middle-aged researcher who took on all responsibility is used as a device for comic tension in a potentially boring case.
His clumsy and poor suspicious behavior invites suspicion from surrounding characters and constantly brings about unintended crises.
In such a situation, he accidentally meets two capable helpers and solves the case.
The hollow ending, which ended as a simple happening, seems to be a device that completes the
The miscasting of a clumsy, ordinary, lethargic middle-aged researcher who took on all responsibility is used as a device for comic tension in a potentially boring case.
His clumsy and poor suspicious behavior invites suspicion from surrounding characters and constantly brings about unintended crises.
In such a situation, he accidentally meets two capable helpers and solves the case.
The hollow ending, which ended as a simple happening, seems to be a device that completes the
comic irony that penetrates the entire work.