tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post3215357701665706110..comments2024-03-27T06:07:20.345+01:00Comments on ボクの事件簿: A Journey for TruthHo-Linghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-24002197266296460392017-02-27T09:20:22.802+01:002017-02-27T09:20:22.802+01:00Good luck with your thesis!Good luck with your thesis!Ho-Linghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-47308604509431778492017-02-26T19:57:00.735+01:002017-02-26T19:57:00.735+01:00Thank you so much for the reply. I will most proba...Thank you so much for the reply. I will most probably just buy a book then. (I'm writing a thesis on Rampo's work and I find your blog very helpful, glad you're here)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01574646512019113637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-89276390217155307762017-02-26T09:33:57.500+01:002017-02-26T09:33:57.500+01:00The copyright on Rampo's work has started to e...The copyright on Rampo's work has started to expire, so in time, it'll probably appear on Aozora Bunko, but this essay was written pretty late, so it might still take some decades... As far as I know, the only way to get it is finding a physical version of the book (I don't have any digital versions of the thing either, I only have my own pocket).Ho-Linghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-23592666310816639902017-02-25T18:41:43.677+01:002017-02-25T18:41:43.677+01:00Hello!
I have a question about your entry few year...Hello!<br />I have a question about your entry few years ago<br />http://ho-lingnojikenbo.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post.html<br />I am very interested in Edogawa's "Geneijou" essay collection, particulary in "A Categorization of Tricks" one. It is surely not one of popular books, as I can find the title only on Japanese sites. I assume there's still no translated version of the essays, so I'm looking for original.<br />My question is, do you know of any pdf version available online? Or the only chance to read that book is to buy the physical one?<br />I would very appreciate your reply on my e-mail address (dagnyzawierucha@gmail.com).<br />Thank you!<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01574646512019113637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-19023263848519428222017-02-24T08:26:04.002+01:002017-02-24T08:26:04.002+01:00Thank's Ho-Ling, really helpful stuff. It seem...Thank's Ho-Ling, really helpful stuff. It seems one the one hand that there is some kind of thread running through these works, which leads to severed limbs, but on the other that it may be a coincidence of the Japanese works I have read! Dan @ The Reader is Warnedhttp://thereaderiswarned.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-14072073031231475932017-02-22T19:23:34.775+01:002017-02-22T19:23:34.775+01:00I daren't say it's "typically Japanes...I daren't say it's "typically Japanese", but something that might be of influence is the form Japanese mystery fiction took before World War II. <br /><br />Detective fiction became really popular with the masses in Japan in the roaring twenties when it merged with gothic/horror/erotic genres, resulting in the ero-guro-nonsense mode. Edogawa Rampo for example, commonly seen as the father of the modern Japanese detective story, started out as a writer of puzzle plot mysteries, but soon focused his attentions to crime stories that emphasized grotesque and erotic elements. Some of his better known stories, like The Dwarf and Moju: Blind Beast (both available in English) for example emphasize the grotesque with murderers leaving the limbs of their victims here and there. So early on in the life of the genre in Japan, the detective story was associated strongly with these deviant themes, which might have left its imprint on the "stereotypical image" of a detective story in the country (similar to the notion of country houses to the British detective story).<br /><br />Though this is just a thought. Perhaps digging deeper to pre-modern crime stories (criminal records and punishment methods) might show deeper causes. Or perhaps not.Ho-Linghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-7586853690406046622017-02-22T16:29:18.954+01:002017-02-22T16:29:18.954+01:00Thanks Ho-Ling for an introduction to another writ...Thanks Ho-Ling for an introduction to another writer available in English! Always good to know. I wanted to ask about the common use of body parts, as beginnings or integral parts in Japanese crime fiction. Is this a trend, and if so does it have a rooted meaning? <br /><br />Some Chinese friends on my MFA course suggested it was connected (in Chaina also) to mech anime, and Gundam style ideas, but there must be many books that use this idea long before mech anime/manga came around. Dan @ The Reader is Warnedhttp://thereaderiswarned.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com