Read "Summer, Fireworks, My Corpse": Let the Corpse Tell You the Story

If you visit the mystery novel section in a bookstore in the mainland, the name you see most must be Keigo Higashino. The thick "Walking in the White Night" is stacked high, interspersed with "Secret", "The Devotion of Suspect X" and Dongye's recent new book, the huge girdle recommends a large piece of colorful, scan a few more rounds, and keep your company " Dongye" will not be able to write two words.

In addition, there are at most a few Japanese mystery writers such as Shimada Shoji and Matsumoto Kiyosho sticking their heads out of the pile of books, and there is an illusion that this is not a "mystery novel area" but a "Higashino fan club". Not long ago, I suddenly saw a new author, Otichi, whose "Summer, Fireworks, My Corpse" was abruptly killed from Keigo Higashino and a group of old-fashioned reasoning writers, and won a place in the bookstore.

It is said that this book was written by Yi Yi when he was 16 years old, so the recommendation words on the girdle are mostly words like "genius novelist", which always reminds me of Taiwan singer Zhang Xuan, who wrote "Baby" when he was 13 years old. I really like this song. Although there is no objective connection between the two, I still have a good impression of the name Yiyi, and I recently found an e-book to read it.

The book is very thin, and it only takes an hour or two to read it carefully. It is not a masterpiece. I don't even think it is a qualified mystery novel, but I still see a few interesting points, which I will share with you here.

Let "My Corpse" Tell the Story

The story of the whole novel is very simple, except for the final ending, there is no "mystery" that requires reasoning, so I can boldly spoil it. The title is actually the story. When the fireworks festival was approaching in the summer, the 9-year-old "I" was pushed down from the tree by my best friend Yayoi and fell to death. Yayoi and his brother Ajian began to hide my body in fear, the wardrobe, rice fields, The hole in the wall... The two moved the corpse in countless places, almost to be discovered, and each "about to be exposed" was the climax of the novel, which made me scratch my bed in the middle of the night.

The most interesting thing is that the main body of the story uses the first person "I", that is, the corpse that was moved around by Yayoi and Kenichi, which makes the whole novel seem quite strange, and the words are surrounded by a touch of sadness.

"I" saw my mother anxiously looking for the missing me, and my inner monologue was:

Her back looks so small, she's completely different from her mother who usually yells like a ghost not to watch TV while eating, which makes me so sad.

When "I" watched Yayoi and Ah Jian hide my body, it was like describing an object other than me being manipulated by them:

Ken shoved me in like a bad boy who was hiding treasure and trying to prank him. Yayoi shoved me in as if to hide his fear and anxiety, trying to hide his sins from the gaze of the gods.

When expressing "I"'s sorrow for his own death and his perception of the world after death, Yiyi wrote:

The morning greeted everything but me, and everyone was alive except me.

When Gu Long was writing a novel, he liked to let the detective in it say coldly that the corpse can talk, which means that the corpse will leave clues to the murderer. Ouyang Feng in the movie "Evil in the East" also said it. This "cool talk".

But Yiyi chose to let the corpse really speak, not for clues and reasoning, but to express a unique feeling, that is, when a person watches the dead self, the familiar scenes of life from the past, the good friend who murdered "me" and hid the corpse , how the heart is thinking.

This is one of the things that surprised me the most about the whole book.

A little bit of "Children's Evil" in Secondary Two

Children are not innocent and innocent as we imagined, but they will do many evil things that adults can't touch. This is probably the propaganda theme of this book, but I was not shocked by the "innocent evil" in the book. Busy cheering for Yayoi and Ken who were hiding the corpses, "You two must not be caught by the police, please!" Their minds were filled with such thoughts.

The reason is that the logic of the characters' actions cannot convince me, which leads me to always doubt the authenticity of the characters, so that hiding the corpse has become a game. What I think about is the victory of the game, not the execution of the wicked.

You know, brother A Jian is only a teenager, but after finding out that his sister Yayoi killed a good friend who had been with each other day and night, he grinned and gave a big smile. I saw that everyone here is stupid. Good guy, if you don't have fear and sadness, you can't be happy, right?

In the subsequent hiding operation, Ah Jian was also too calm, as if he didn't care about a corpse placed beside the bed, like a fucking Japanese gangster, a habitual criminal who kills and hides corpses.

Probably the author just wanted to show the child's indiscernible, unprovoked evil, but I doubt it. First of all, the two children lived into their teens, and even if they did not have a clear moral outlook, they could understand that killing was a very serious matter. Besides, I don't think there is evil without a reason in the world at all, there are only "various causes that we cannot understand", and one of the things a novelist has to do is to describe this "difficult to understand" closely, using Various techniques allow readers to understand, obviously, Yi Yi did not do this.

I guess it's not that he lacks skill, it's that only a 16-year-old author who is full of mental illnesses writes such a character.

To my slight satisfaction, Eul-yi gave an unexpected ending at the end of the story - the villain turned out to be not Ah-gun in the end. This is where the whole book is most like a mystery novel, and according to the "peak-end rule", it greatly improved my reading experience.

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Finally, if you are interested in the inner os of the corpse, you might as well come and have a look. After all, the book is not thick and it is very interesting, but if you have the idea of reading mystery novels, don't be fooled by the publishing house. The hair can't be pushed out.