Keigo Higano, how did I become the king of Japanese mystery novels in my mind?

Keigo Higo, who won the Naoki Award, the highest honor in Japanese popular literature in 2006, joked at the award-winning ceremony: "every time I couldn't win the prize, I went to have a drink with my friends. While drinking everyone, they changed their ways to arrange the members of the jury, saying that they were playing tricks. Now that I have finally won the lottery, I have to change my mind and say to them, 'Naoki Award, that is a very high-level award.' " Although it is a joke, you can see that it is sour. Because he has always been a "ten thousand years standby". Now when it comes to Japanese mystery novels, the name Keigo Higano instinctively appears in my mind, and my family's "selected works of Keigo Higano" is almost rotten, and the TV drama film adapted from Higuhiro's novel also lies quietly on my D disk. Keigo Higano's books are always done in one fell swoop, and sometimes there is even an impulse to cry after reading them. What is the magic of his books? How did he become the trump card in the Japanese mystery novel world today? Keigo Higano became an engineer after graduating from university in 1981, but his life as an engineer was boring and monotonous, he didn't do very well himself, and he wanted to find a difference in his boring life, so he began to write mystery novels. He felt fresh excitement in the world of the novel, which invigorated his life.

in 1983, he contributed to the Edogawa Walk Award as a doll's house, and then stopped after being shortlisted for the second round. The unreconciled Higuo created the Magic Ball the next year, and this time he was only one step away but still lost the election. Keigo Higano, who had a rough start, set a goal for himself: "I decided to work hard for five years. If five contributions didn't work out, it would prove that I had no talent for writing. Men should know that they should let go when they should let go." In this mood, Keiko Higano won the Edogawa Walk Award in 1985 with his elaborate work "after School". At this time, Higano's company knew about this, and the young Higano himself thought he could support himself by writing professionally, so he quit his job and went to Tokyo. More importantly, there is an unwritten rule in Japanese inferential literature: professional novelists can only write full-time, not part-time. After arriving in Tokyo, Keigo Higano was regarded as a "Kansai villager" who was discriminated against. Tokyo was too big and it was not easy to live in white. During this period, Guigo Higano has suffered a lot. Although the award-winning "after School" has sold 100,000 copies, any work that has won the Edo Walk Award can sell 100,000 copies.

A large number of his subsequent works do not sell well, even quite poorly. With the dream of a young author, he certainly hopes that his work will become a best-selling work, but contrary to his wishes, the work will not sell at all. According to Mr. Higano's recollection later, to make the sales of his works look better, he went to the main bookstores in Tokyo and bought two copies in each bookstore. In the end, the schoolbag was so heavy that the belt was almost broken. If there is no sales volume, there is not much income, and the price in Tokyo is quite high. later, some people said that Keigo Higano almost starved to death during this period. Compared with material dissatisfaction, what is more, frightening is the spiritual distress and the disapproval of his works by the mainstream literary circles. At this time, Guigo Higo served as an alternate four times in the Yoshikawa Eiji Literature Award, ran with him four times in the Japanese reasoning Writers Association Award, and has always been a miserable "alternate". In 1998, Keigo Higano, who had begun to change his creation, finally wrote his first real best-seller, Secret, which was shortlisted for the Nagi Award, the highest honor in Japanese popular literature, but was defeated in the end. Time seems to be in reincarnation, the experience is always so similar, Keigo Higano seems to have begun his "ten thousand years alternate" career. In 1999, the White Night Walk, a favorite in the hearts of countless reasoning fans, was published. as soon as it was published, its sales exceeded 1 million. The characters in the book, the story structure caused a huge response, the confident Toano Guigo full of confidence that this time Naoki award belongs to him, but still lost the election. When the result of the selection came out, there was an uproar in the public opinion circle, and some critics even thought that if "White Night Walk" could not win the Naoki Award, then Guigo Higo would never have won this award in his life. The life of a "candidate" is not easy. After 1999, Keigo Higano, who won Naoki's "spell", wrote "unrequited Love", "Shin" and "Fantasy Night" and lost the Naoki Award three times. With the determination to burn his bridges, Keigo Higano wrote "the dedication of suspect X" in 2005, which he later called the best story he could think of.

the sales of this book skyrocketed as soon as it was published, and the feelings in the book moved countless people. This book has also created a best-selling myth. The sales of mystery novels in Japan mainly look at the three most authoritative lists: Ben reasoning best10 is a great mystery novel, and Weekly Wenchun mystery novel best10, "the dedication of suspect X" is at the top of these three lists, which is unsurpassed so far. This book is unstoppable, and the momentum of thunder finally won the Naoki Award, realizing Keigo Higo's dream of Naoki. After that, Keigo Higano's fame seems to have reached its peak, selling an astonishing 6 million copies a year in Japan. At this time, Keio Higano's fame and fame and so on! The great charm of mystery novels lies in the ingenious design of "tricks" to unravel the answers to the riddles, which have a huge impact and surprise. However, the traditional reasoning novels attach importance to the plot but despise the shaping of the emotions of the characters, while Keigo Higano attaches great importance to the characterization of the characters and carefully describes human nature. in the stories, the readers are often fascinated by the characters in which his characters are both good and evil. In White Night Walk, for example, it doesn't seem to matter who the killer is in the end, but readers are more concerned about the human nature behind the crime and the heartbreaking feelings. When Liang fell and died for her, Tang Zemisui left coldly and arrogantly. At this moment, the answer to the riddle is unimportant, and countless people are entangling for human nature at the moment. This is also the greatest charm of the story of Guigo Higano. But before that, Keigo Higano had gone through a "detour" for a long time."Yes. If the creation period of Keigo Higano is roughly divided, it can be divided into eleven years of Benedict reasoning and creation period, and later the creation period of "Dongye flow", which formed its style. During the creation period of the Benji School, Guigo Higano was very unsuccessful, and the sales of his works were very poor. The old-fashioned story structure and model made him start to think about the way out of the reasoning novel, and he began to innovate and gradually move closer to the social school of reasoning. In 1996, Keigo Higano, who began to transform and innovate, saw hope, and his two innovative books, the Code of famous Detective and malice, began to sell well, which gave him great confidence and laid the foundation for his subsequent innovation. He began to aggressively introduce new elements and writing skills into the novel. He directly used the seemingly bizarre "soul transformation" in "Secret" to let the mother's soul into her daughter's body. "split body" used the cloning theme that was still very advanced at that time. "the dedication of suspect X" told you about the murderer at the beginning. In this story, Noguigo in the Middle East places the most attractive elements of the general mystery novel in an unimportant position, while Shi Shen's dedication motivation becomes the most eye-catching point of the whole article, and the motivation is the thing that most involves human nature. it is this kind of innovation that pokes countless people's tears. It is precise because of innovation and closes to the social school of reasoning, so another charm of Keigo Higano's works is the allusion to the social reality. For example, the White Night Walk was written in 1997, when the financial crisis began. The unfinished building at the beginning of the novel hinted at Japan's Bubble economy at that time, the popularity of prostitution in Higo Higo's story, the prevalence of the underworld, and so on. When reading this kind of novel, readers feel that the story is not far away from them, it is easier to enter the story, and fully identify with the emotions in the story.

A very important aspect of the charm of Higano's story is that he always brings freshness to readers, can always integrate the things he is interested in into his own story, and integrate different elements and events into the story. Avoid self-repetition like a plague. Mr. Higano himself once had a marriage. The heroine in his work after School is almost identical to his ex-wife. Her two sisters, one is a teacher, the other is a stewardess. He wrote two novels based on their lives. He participated in the baseball department in high school, so this experience was incorporated into works such as the Magic Ball. He also continues to bring fresh excitement to the reader in his own stories about the elements of unfamiliar areas that he does not know. Guigo Higano later said that he often encountered bottlenecks in writing and wanted to write about areas he didn't like but forced himself to like it. In addition, Keigo Higano also made a great breakthrough in reasoning novel skills, using multiple lines in parallel in the White Night Walk, which seems to be several unrelated lines strung together with some secret small details.

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in the White Night Walk, Yuki Higano tries to put an end to any psychological description, which can be called "zero psychological description", which presents the story to the reader calmly and restrained, giving the reader a huge space of imagination. Generally speaking, Keigo Higano's books have huge contradictions and conflicts no more than ten pages, which directly attract the attention of readers, the narrative language is concise and clear, never muddy, do not exaggerate excessively, and make the story concise and tense, which makes many readers love it. At this point, I want to see "White Night Walk" again.