wrote a lot of sad novels. Some novels do their best to portray the sadness after facing life experience, but this is not the complete darkness. This sadness is that you can gnash your teeth when talking to people, "That's the bastard, I If you want him to die!", people still have objects to complain or resent, whether they are people or the world.
And those extreme novels are not only sad, they also exaggerate despair. Because has no object to complain and vent, everything is due to itself or its unpredictable destiny-then who can it blame? Nothing at all. This is not simple sadness or despair, but sadness. The sorrow of is invisible and soft, and does not give people any light and hope. Osamu Dazai’s works are such a sincere sorrow. This writer who has been searching for his death all his life has attempted suicide many times. There is no reason, no reason, no hope and light—"I wanted to die this winter, but I recently got a set of hemp kimono with rat gray pinstripes, which is suitable for summer, so I still Live till summer first." ("Old Age")
Zhuangzi said that there is no more mourning for your husband than death. And what is sadder than the death of the heart is half the death of the heart.
Keigo Higashino "Secret" is such a story. I even think that this is the cruelest novel by Higashino Keigo. Compared with this book, whether it is Yukisui Tangzawa in "White Night" or Midong Xinhai in "Night Night", their grief and pain can be transformed into cruelty. Using this sharp blade to hurt this unfair world, their revenge seems to have cause and effect, and in "Secret", sadness has no goal, no direction, and even a kind of rejoice. They can only be deeply immersed in the boundless sorrow, trying to find a breakthrough, but there will never be an answer... The plot of
is not complicated.
Forty-year-old Hirasuke lived a normal life. Until one day, his wife Naoko and daughter Mo Nami were in a car accident during their journey. The bus overturned the cliff. Naoko was seriously injured and died. Mo Nami was held tightly by his mother. Escaped serious injuries and fell into a coma.
However, when Mo Nami woke up, it was not Mo Nami who had the physical appearance of his daughter, but his wife's son. Naoko's soul lives in the body of Mo Nami who should have been awake.
Hirasuke loved his wife deeply. He did not take off the wedding ring, and Naomi, who has Mo Nami's body, tacitly sewed the wedding ring into the bear pendant, and stayed there every day. Pingsuke felt that he had not completely lost his son, and was comforted a little. But, is this person a wife or a daughter? How should they get along in their future lives...
At the beginning, they tried to be a father and daughter outside, a husband and wife at home, and Naoko also tried to learn the words and deeds of the sixth grade daughter and study hard. With the passage of time, after Naoko gradually adapted to this body, her thoughts changed-she wanted to fulfill Sou Nami's ideal, that is, to be an independent woman. After Naoko went to high school, Hirasuke noticed the changes in Naoko. She interacted with the boys she met in the school’s tennis club. He was very distressed. He felt that he was losing Naoko. In pain, he peeked at Naoko’s diary and even Installed a bug in the room... And the fact that Naoko and his male classmate were dating on Christmas Eve made Hirasuke completely angry. He couldn't believe that what his wife said was just a friendship. He rudely broke their date and was not reconciled there. When the boy asked why, Heisuke just said, "Because we and you are not in the same world." The relationship between
and Heisuke has always been a question they are avoiding. Due to this irreconcilable contradiction, this contradiction It's a moment I have to face.
looked at her husband, who had never tried to betray her. Naoko was lost. She no longer shed tears, but fell into a long silence-she also loved her husband deeply, and because of this, she needed to think about how to save him.
However, everything is incomprehensible. No matter what method is used, as a couple or a father and daughter, they can't fully adapt, and the nameless couple relationship has plunged them into deep sorrow.
At the same time, following Hirasuke’s investigation of the driver who died in the accident, he learned that he had gone to work to send money to his ex-wife and son far away, but the boy Wen Ye was not the driver’s biological son. When the driver’s ex-wife met in Hepingjie, he said something the driver said before his deathThe words " love someone is to make him happy, whether he is my child or not. "
wakes up Hirasuke, he is finally willing to let go and let Naoko live as his daughter Mo Nami. And a miracle also happened at this moment-Mo Nami's soul returned. She asked in perplexity why Hirasuke was here. In excitement and worry, Hirasuke accepted that "Mo Nami's body and mind have returned". From then on, the souls of Mo Nami and Naoko changed from time to time through sleep, but Naoko's existence time became shorter and shorter. On the final day, Naoko asked Hirasuke to take her to the Yamashita Park where they first dated, where Naoko was slow. Close your eyes slowly-Mo Nami is back, and Naoko disappeared completely.
Destiny delayed their separation from the day of the car accident to this day. Heisuke felt sad and relieved. He embraced Mo Nami who was crying and crying and his mother left, and calmly accepted this fact.
The pages of the book have been turned over, eight years later, on the day of the wedding of Mo Nami and Fumiya. Hirasuke went to a watch shop before the wedding, but the owner inadvertently revealed an incomprehensible news: Mo Nami came here a few days ago with Naoko’s wedding ring and asked to reshape her marriage with her mother’s wedding ring. Quit. How did daughter
know the wedding ring sewn into the bear pendant? Isn't that the secret between him and Naoko?
In an instant, Hirasuke suddenly woke up to this shocking secret: she was a son from beginning to end! Mo Nami, who was crying and crying in Yamashita Park, was actually crying for her own departure!
Hirasuke rushed into the bridal dressing room of the wedding in agony. The moment they looked at the "daughter" in the white wedding dress, they all understood the secret. Hirasuke suddenly realized that as long as she didn't admit it, she would always be Mo Nami. What could be the fate? She called him father and thanked him for taking care of him for so many years.
This time, she really wants to leave him.
Hirasuke accepted his fate, and in order to protect the secret between them, he said nothing.
But looking at the young Wenya, Hirasuke still couldn't hold back his heart-wrenching pain. He watched the man who was about to take Naoko away and said, I'm going to punch you twice. One punch is because you took my daughter away. One punch...for another person.
"Hirasuke clenched his fists, but tears were already in his eyes before he punched. He fell to the ground, covering his face with his hands, and cried hoarsely..."
This is the abrupt end of the novel, I I also burst into tears when I saw the end of the TV series and the original.
This is really the cruelest novel by Higashino Keigo, so cruel that there is no chance for revenge.
When I was halfway through reading, I felt that Naoko was selfish and not enough for Hirasuke, but after reading the full text, I felt that Naoko's behavior is exactly what he did to love Hirasuke. How cruel she is to herself, and only love can make her To make such a decision, in order to save Hirasuke, he chose to let the former self die. In
"Langya List", Lin Shu chose to experience heart-piercing pain, and finally reborn as Mei Changsu from the ashes, but he had a belief that he would cleanse the grievances of those souls and return his innocence. Only with the support of such a strong belief, could Mei Changsu endure endless hardships.
is a son, she is for love. Believe in her, it does not need to be so solemn, she is much lonely than Mei Changsu, even more lonely than Hirasuke, no one can tell, there is no moment to relax, only silently acting for eight years.
If fate is like this, what can people do? According to other writers, death is probably the only way out. But Keigo Higashino offers another way, that is, at the expense of protecting the illusion seen by the beloved.
This is a rare disguise in Japanese literature. From Junichiro Tanizaki to Junichi Watanabe, everyone preached that if you want eternity, you can only die, so that both of them can get relief. This is also the most sincere attitude. And Keigo Higashino knows that what is crueler than death is to live with memories, and to protect secrets silently for love.
even reminds me of what Confucius called "killing oneself and becoming benevolent."
The novel "Secret" was written in 1998. Higashino himself divorced his wife of 14 years. presumablyIt is because I have a deeper understanding of marriage and life, and a different experience of "love". "If you love someone, you must make him happy." According to the person in the book, Dongye said that he has the ultimate Understanding of love-sometimes, letting go is also a kind of deep love. This is an understanding that is different from the Japanese tradition. Death is so easy, but life is not easy, but for the sake of love, one must survive. This is the sorrow of life and the detachment of love.
Looking at the chronology of Keigo Higashino, you will find that the 1990s was a period of transition in his writing style. Prior to this, Dongye mainly wrote mystery novels, and also wrote some novels about human nature. Starting in the 1990s, Dongye's writing began to mix the two together, and finally produced "White Night Walk", a "uncrowned king with both reasoning and humanity." ". In all fairness, even on mystery novels, although Higashino is agile, he is not among the top Japanese writers, and when it comes to the description of human nature, Yoshimitsu Katayuchi's implicit plot hints can only be regarded as ingenious. But Higashino is wise. He knows that only based on unpredictable reasoning and analysis, the novels he writes can only be smart works, and only human nature is the factor that makes the works spread. Therefore, the lack of psychological description in his later works and the use of details on behalf of the description make it full of a sense of picture, and reasoning + human nature is the characteristic of Dongye.
However, as the works have become popular and popular, many shortcomings have gradually been exposed, such as the repetitive plot, the over-commercialization, or the tendency to use a male and a female line to narrate, etc., which reminds me of the relatively pure works of Dongye. Among them, my favorite is the novel about human nature, and among them, I love "Secret" the most.
Finally, I will add that "The Secret" has been adapted into a movie and a TV series. The movie is starred by Ryoko Hirosue from the girlhood. Although I really like the purity and transparency of Ryoko, I still feel that it is not suitable to play Naoko and Mo Nami. , Because Naoko is, after all, a person with a big wave in his heart, the depth of his eyes and expressions is more important than the girly breath. In comparison, I prefer the TV series version. Shida Miku, who was only 17 at the time, had terribly good acting skills, especially the portrayal of his eyes, which was very staged. Kuranosuke Sasaki, who plays Hirasuke, is also an actor I like very much, so the stills in this article are all from the TV drama version.
