A family of three with only two people: a car accident destroyed the life of her husband Hirasuke, the wife was pierced by broken glass in order to protect her daughter, and her daughter was held tightly in her arms and her brain was crushed. Woke up from a coma, but said: "Husband, I am here." After the car accident, the wife's soul attached to her daughter's body. How will this family continue?
This is the story told in Keigo Higashino's novel "The Secret". On December 3, the Chinese Collector's Edition of "The Secret" was published by New Classic Press. At the launching ceremony held in Beijing, scholar Zhian and screenwriter Shi Hang shared.
"Secret" is one of Keigo Higashino's important works. The book was voted by Japanese readers as the second most popular work by Keigo Higashino, second only to "White Night Walk". For Keigo Higashino, "The Secret" also has a special meaning. It is not only his first work translated into English, but also the first novel to be made into a movie. The story of "The Secret" was filmed in 1999. A movie starring Hirosue Ryoko and Kobayashi Kaoru.
1999 movie "Secret" stills
"How should I live from now on? It's a father, but not. It's a husband, but not. It's a man, but not. His heart trembled for his tragic fate." Husband Heisuke talked about his pain. While he was tight-lipped to outsiders about the changes at home, he was careful to get along with his daughter. It was almost the most common trivial matter, and he was full of entanglements because of this embarrassing change.
"For "Secrets", what the hero encounters is not just a secret, because in front of love, people can fight against the world, or mistakenly think that they can fight against the world, but the world does not care about your secrets, and finally with you It’s your heart, your choices, and your self-communications. Whether you’re a husband or wife, a father-daughter, or a mother-daughter relationship in symbiosis, the secret cruelty is that you can love your soul. But you cannot love the body, but in the end, the soul is compromised with the body, and the body needs to grow again. Well, the old soul closes the memory and becomes a new self.” The writer Ding Dingzhang said when talking about The Secret. Say.
Shi Hang said: "When reading "The Secret", every two pages turned will cause a little pain. We may never encounter such strange things in "The Secret", but we all have small pains in our lives. "The Secret" is about ordinary people, just like ordinary people who fall, we know it will hurt and care. In the space of "Secret", this kind of pain will continue like drumming and dominoes."
is not a murderer 、It is what fate has done to us
Keigo Higashino has published more than 90 works in more than 30 years. His works have been read by more than 25 million readers in the past 10 years in China. He has created many works of different styles, including the exquisite and detailed mystery novels "Malicious" and "Suspect X's Devotion", and the delicate and warm "Worry-Relief Grocery Store" and "The New Participant", and the cold and sharp "White Night Walk" "Magic Night" etc.
"The Secret" was awarded the Inference Writers Association Award in the summer of 1999. Keigo Higashino himself once commented: I think "The Secret" is God's praise for my hard work. One thing that is questionable is that "The Secret" has basically no reasoning element, and it is more about torturing a person's humanity in a preset embarrassing situation (that is, the wife's soul is attached to the daughter's body). However, Keigo Higashino won the Mystery Writers Association Award for this story, which had no murderer and no murder scene, but just meticulously laid out and talked about the depth to which human intellect can go, and was selected as an annual mystery novel by "Book Magazine". No. 1 in the rankings, this can also prove how exciting and surprising the suspense, plot and reversal set by Higashino Keigo in this book.
Shi Hang said: "We mostly read mystery novels for entertainment, but watching "Worry-Relief Grocery Store" and "Secrets" are likely to be poked, because the murderer, the murder and the alibi prove that these are relatively far away from us. Things, but we all have poor interpersonal relationships and irreparable emotional dilemmas, so such works will resonate with us."
"The reason "Secret" is really good is that it is because it is not a mystery, and Instead of the routines and anti-routines of mystery novels, it becomes another thing. What is it that we see? What is really worth exploring in "Secret" is not the murderer, but what fate has done to us. Fate is forcing it. What do we do. We don’t feel that we face a case every day, or that we are a potential victim, Or the murderer. But we may feel that destiny is playing tricks on ourselves at any time, so this kind of events related to us will affect us more. "
Shi Hang believes that "Secret" is not a mystery, but it is more terrifying than mystery, because: "If a person is murdered, let's catch the murderer." However, in the matter described in "Secrets", fate is the murderer. Injuries can happen at any time. The police cannot protect you. A bunch of police surround you and this woman, and you still cannot know whether she is your wife or your child. So what the mystery novel allows you to see is regular harm, while in "The Secret", you are completely helpless. I think this novel is very hurtful, and it really opened up a new world. "
Zhian believes that another painful part of "The Secret" is that this matter can only be undertaken by Hirasuke: "In Higashino Keigo's works, for example, "White Night Walk" is a story in which someone helps. "Street" is a story that doesn't need help, but "Secret" is a story that needs someone's help and can't help at all. "
What to do after borrowing a corpse to return the yang?
Shi Hang said that the situation in "Secrets" that the soul enters the body of another person can be traced back to religion: "Taoists study the issue of borrowing a corpse to return the sun after death, India Yoga and Tibetan Buddhism have similar stories, that is, one person continues to practice with the help of another person's body. Such stories all represent a dissatisfaction with one's own life and a new desire. If you look at the story of "Secret" from the perspective of a screenwriter, I first admire the packaging of a marginal concept into a mainstream topic, and this extreme situation and this brain space, Keigo Higashino turned it into a particularly real story. , In fact, there is no place to be investigated. "
"The Secret" is not about incest, or about curiosity. It is a story of an honest man trying to maintain his life. "Hirasuke is a person who does not want to collapse. Incest is like Damocles. The sword has been hanging on top of his head, and he has always bitten his head to be a person who maintains his personality. What he always worried about was that whether it was his wife Naoko or his daughter Mo Nami, what should she do if she would commit suicide, he was worried about this all day long. Therefore, the book "Secrets" is filled with the kind of kindness that can't be broken, the kind of good people, but because it is impossible to break, it finally forms a mess, and the mess makes everyone almost suffocated. . "Shi Hang said.
This is Keigo Higashino's deadlock. He used a bunch of good people to complete this deadlock, and formed a sharp thing with a bunch of obtuse angles.
is not only the husband who needs to face a decision, but also his wife Naoko. On the other hand, he has to face the huge temptation of the new birth, and at the same time, he is anxious about the soul of the daughter who may return at any time: Naoko suddenly has the body of his daughter, and he will live again from his teens. After overthrowing, she can have many choices in her life. There is also a contest between the temptation of this new life and maintaining the original life.
Reading of Keigo Higashino's works
Zhian once listed his mind on Weibo Higashino Keigo TOP10 and reading order, "Secret" is also among them.
Zhian recommends that readers read "Secret" after reading "Worry-free Grocery Store". When talking about why it is recommended, he explained: "First of all, from the style of the work Above, "Worry-free Grocery Store" is particularly warm, and it can be said to be the brightest book among all the works of Keigo Higashino. The style of "Secret" is also based on light, but there is a hint of shadow. Compared with "Worry-free Grocery Store", there will be a slight change. "
" From the structure of the work, "Worry-Relief Grocery Store" is a series of novels consisting of 5 short stories, while "Secret" is a full-length novel with more complete content and more symmetrical structure. I think "The Secret" is ranked among the top two works of Keigo Higashino. It can be said that it is the most symmetrical book among all the works of Keigo Higashino. This symmetrical proportion is only comparable to that of "White Night Walk". In terms of the type of work, "Secret" and "Worry-Relief Grocery Store" both carefully depict the details of reality. At the same time, there are some surreal factors in reality, and they are not mystery novels. If you read Keigo Higashino, it is best to start with his non-inference works. Both "Secret" and "Worry-free Grocery Store" are good introductory readings. It is best not to start from his inference works, because once you read it this way, it is easy to characterize the writer Keigo Higashino as a reasoning writer and ignore his other more and better works. "Zhian said.
Keigo Higashino is a very diligent creator. WeTake a look at his creative context: "White Night" (1999), "Predictive Dream" (2000), "Unrequited Love" (2001), "Life in Time" (2002), "Letter" (2003), "Phantom Night" (2004), "Devotion of Suspect X" (2005), "Mission and End of Soul" (2006), "Red Finger" (2006), "Dawn Street" (2007), "Meteor's Trip" (2008) ), "Paradox 13" (2009), "New Participant" (2009), "Whose Cuckoo's Egg" (2010), "Kirin Wings" (2011), "Worry-free Grocery Store" (2012), "When Prayer Ends" (2013), "A Night Before False" (2014), "The Cross of Nothingness" (2014), "Laplace Witch" (2015), "Mermaid House" (2015). Among them, "The Devotion of Suspect X" was nominated for the Allan Poe Best Feature Award in 2012, and finally won the American Library Association's Highest Recommended Book Award (inference department).
"From these works, we can also see the changes in the key points and techniques of Keigo Higashino's creation. The previous works are based on the original style (mystery solving), carefully designed based on the murderer's tricks and reasoning process, and gradually solve the mystery On the basis of this, it increases the humanistic care for the victims of the case and reveals the social problems, so that the role of the reader has changed from a case solver looking for clues to understand mystery to a philosophical individual thinking about reality and introspection. This process is very important. , Means that his works have the function of pure literature; and when his works become best-sellers and become the mainstream of people's reading taste, it means that the boundary between popular literature and pure literature is getting blurred." "Secrets" "" the translator said.
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