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阅读高木彬光 Takagi Akimitsu在小说之家的作品!!! |
毕业于京都大学,1948年发表小说处女作《刺青杀人事件》获得成功,从此开始了推理小说家的生涯。高木彬光的小说情节紧凑快速,语言活泼,结构非常严谨。阅读起来很迅速,没有什么拖泥带水的场面描写。可以说表现人物心理是他的长项,他的文笔非常轻松,但却看不到散漫,极见文字功力的深厚。案件的设置和巧妙的推理过程,也很合理,并且很有个人风格。
高木彬光在日本推理小说历史发展中占有一席之地,主要因为他开创了一种新的推理小说题材“法庭派”并把它发扬光大。笔下的主人公多是律师或检察官等法律界人士,通过他们在所接手的案件的调查中抽丝拨茧的推理,从而找到真正的罪犯。在破案的过程中,高木擅长于穿插人物情感的冲突矛盾,从而凸现出某些社会问题。比如高官厚禄的大臣们的徇私枉法,或是豪门名流背后的丑恶现实。在他的小说中,正直的一方往往是年轻的检察官或者律师们,他们聪明,冷静,对生活富有激情,并且正直严谨。在这类主角人物中,检察官雾岛三郎是他塑造的深入人心的人物。
Biography
Takagi was born in Aomori City in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan. He graduated from the Daiichi High School (which was often abbreviated to Ichi-ko) and Kyoto Imperial University, where he studied metallurgy. He was employed by the Nakajima Aircraft Company, but lost his job with the prohibition on military industries in Japan after World War II.
On the recommendation of a fortune-teller, he decided to become a writer. He sent the second draft of his first detective story, The Tattoo Murder Case, to the great mystery writer Edogawa Ranpo, who recognized his skill and who recommended it to a publisher. It was published in 1948.
He received the Tantei sakka club sho (Mystery Writer Club Award) for his second novel, the Noh Mask Murder Case in 1950.
Takagi was a self-taught legal expert and the heroes in most of his books were usually prosecutors or police detectives, although the protagonist in his first stories was Kyosuke Kamizu, an assistant professor at Tokyo University.
Takagi explored variations on the detective novel in the 1960s, including historical mysteries, picaresque novels, legal mysteries, economic crime stories, and science fiction alternate history.
In The Informer (1965), a former Tokyo stock exchange worker who is fired because of illegal trades. A subsequent stock market crash means that he has no hope of returning to his old career and therefore he accepts a job from an old friend even though he eventually discovers that the new firm he works for is really an agency for industrial espionage. The plot is based on actual events.
He was struck by stroke several times since 1979, and died in 1995.
Bibliography
Tattoo Murder Case (1948) (刺青殺人事件)
Noh Mask Murder Case (1949) (能面殺人事件)
House of Spell (1949) (呪縛の家)
Enchantresss Lodge (1949) (妖婦の宿)
Crime in my Ichi-Ko days (1951) (我が一高時代の犯罪)
Why Has the Doll Been Killed (1955) (人形はなぜ殺される)
Mystery of Genghis Khan (1958) (成吉思汗の秘密)
People Gathering like Ants (1959) (人蟻)
Blind Spot in Broad Daylight (1960) (白昼の死角)
Destructive Justice (1961) (破戒裁判)
Prosecutor Saburo Kirishima (1964) (検事 霧島三郎)
The Informer (1965) (密告者)
Honeymoon to Nowhere (1965) (ゼロの蜜月)
Combined Fleet Has Won at Last (1971) (連合艦隊ついに勝つ)
Mystery of Yamataikoku (1973) (邪馬台国の秘密)
Mystery of the early Japanese Emperors (1986) (古代天皇の秘密)
Seven Lucky Gods Murder Case (1987) (七福神殺人事件)
Goodbye Mask (1988) (仮面よ さらば)
Reference
Takagi, Akimitsu. Honeymoon to Nowhere. Soho Crime (1999). ISBN 1569471541.
Takagi, Akimitsu. The Informer. Soho Crime (2001). ISBN 1569472432.
Takagi, Akimitsu. The Tattoo Murder Case. Soho Crime (1999). ISBN 1569471568.