The Curse of the Great Detective
The collapse of the boundary between reality and fiction
March 11, 2021
The Curse of the Great Detective
Keigo Higashino
Jaein
2011-03-26
9788990982421
Review
It is said to be close to a self-reflective work that summarizes the love-hate relationship the author has had with the genre of
The author, I, who was conceiving a new novel set in a nuclear power plant, visits a library for data collection, where he gets lost and falls into a mysterious world different from reality.
The author describes the library here not as a temple of knowledge, but as a cemetery of books filled with old and dusty books.
The
Perhaps he got lost while writing a novel about nuclear power plants.
There is no reality or humanity in a village where something is lacking.
This world exists only for the single purpose of designing tricks and finding culprits.
This is a critical portrayal of the tendency of the shin-honkaku mystery genre to immerse only in the intellectual puzzle itself rather than the characters' psychology or motives.
shin-honkaku mystery.The author, I, who was conceiving a new novel set in a nuclear power plant, visits a library for data collection, where he gets lost and falls into a mysterious world different from reality.
The author describes the library here not as a temple of knowledge, but as a cemetery of books filled with old and dusty books.
The
cursed village the author entered seems to be the inner world of an author in a creative slump beyond physical spatial movement.Perhaps he got lost while writing a novel about nuclear power plants.
There is no reality or humanity in a village where something is lacking.
This world exists only for the single purpose of designing tricks and finding culprits.
This is a critical portrayal of the tendency of the shin-honkaku mystery genre to immerse only in the intellectual puzzle itself rather than the characters' psychology or motives.