Taiwanese essay: What should I do, I can't seem to get out of Showa

Sugata Masaki loves to pick up long-winded Japanese drama characters, which suits my appetite. In "Don't Say It's Reasoning", his character said: There is only one truth, but there may be several truths.

Now I define speculative fiction as the process of logical deduction in the story . I don't have much confidence in this definition and haven't read enough detective novels.

My boyfriend reads mystery novels every day, so I read it off and on. The embarrassing thing is that the novels he recommended to me are ugly. I followed the recommendations of the Taiwan Mystery Writers Association and MWA, and I didn't read the right ones. daughter".

I put together the mystery novels that have a deep impression on me. What is the purpose of the reasoner (usually a detective) in it?

• Looking for the truth, but the truth is not available: Paul Auster's "New York Trilogy"

 The novels I read when I was a student were very good-looking and broke my three views? ! You can understand it as a broken novel. (suspect)

• Detective Charm: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "Sherlock Holmes", Ji Weiran "Private Detective Series"

 The enthusiasm for the "Sherlock Holmes" series made me realize my fascination with foreigners and my fascination with the history of the gentry.

• Puzzle-solving fun: Lin Siyan's "Little Bear Escapes: The Troubles of Detective Lin Ruoping"

 This is probably the so-called Benge/New Benge School, I really don't feel it.

• Finding the Truth: Josephine Tey, "Time's Daughter"

I have been reading this novel during the Chinese New Year holiday.

Real history is in records that are not in the form of history.

A lot of the detective novels I've read are deciphering the clues left by genius criminals. Entertainment can be the purpose of creation, but when it all goes to creating more difficult puzzles, it's deadlock . This 1951 novel takes a different approach, reversing the case of Richard III, who is notorious in Britain, and the murderer turned out to be Henry VII, who was in power at the time. The history written in many words is the history of those in power, and the task of intellectuals is to explore the truth: Tey chose a huge proposition and wrote it down in the popular literature carrier of speculative fiction. , take readers through selected historical materials, and tell readers their own thoughts and conclusions.

Taiwanese Essay #2 talks about Professor Chen Guowei's conclusion of two breaks in Taiwanese detective novels, which seems to be the consensus of Taiwanese literature researchers.

If we look at history from the perspective of the official language, the Japanese occupation period began in 1895, but the colonial government did not immediately ban Chinese, but only after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937. During this period, through education, attracting the Wang people, etc., "luring" everyone to use Japanese. In 1946, the first anniversary of Taiwan's liberation, the Nationalist government immediately banned the Japanese column of the newspaper. That's right , only one year . Writers in this province immediately became aphasia, such as Long Yingzong mentioned in Taiwanese Essay #1. In the face of the anti-communist literature that led the literary world in the future, they had no experience in the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. , The large outreach needs of anti-Communist literature forced writers from other provinces to ignore the literature of the leftists in China in the 1930s in order to conform to the "beautiful and pure national culture" advocated by Chiang Kai-shek.

To appreciate the framework established by Taiwanese literature research in the past ten years, we should continue to walk through the White Terror and welcome the blossoming of a hundred flowers in the 1990s. But there is one figure that I can't get out of Showa, and he is Weng Nao .

Ignoring that people should call each other in Taiwanese or Japanese at that time, I consciously gave him a nickname, Own Now, everyone said that he was "uninhibited" and "romantic". He should be a person who lives in the moment! But is it really so? I'm still reading limited materials (after all, I don't know Japanese, which is really a loss), it seems that there should be no chance to learn Tey to reverse the case for Own Now, but I want to share some interesting stories with you first:

• Own Now made his debut by writing poetry in the early days. He has translated a series of English poems, most of which were popular Imagist poets at the time, including the well-known Ye Ci.
• No one knows how Own Now died (wait, that's not funny ya), some say it has something to do with the Japanese police. At that time, his friend Wu Tianshang (not sure if he was still a friend at that time, after all, Weng Nao really did a lot of immoral things) was once arrested by the Japanese police for interrogation, and was scared to return to Taiwan. passed away.
• The commentators mentioned that Own Now is the New Sensation School, which is the original modernism in Japan, but the first Weng Nao I read was "Xu Bo", which described Taiwan's rural anecdotes. Recommend everyone to read. In addition, I would like to share an interesting footnote by Huang Yuting. When Weng Nao wrote the dialogues in the Taiwanese countryside, he used the Japanese dialect and had a high degree of mastery.
• This has nothing to do with Own Now. During the Showa period, Taiwanese Wen Qing wore: wearing a stand-up collar uniform, a cloak on the shoulders, clogs, a white hat on the head, hair growing and smoking. Refer to this article .

This week's takeaway: The previous history textbook was a mess.

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