[Reading Notes] The Fable of the Husband Killing in Lucheng has never been more than one murderer - "Killing the Husband"

In the end, when people were leaving one after another, Guan An would sigh and say in conclusion, "It's really an injustice! My mother had an accident, their family's feng shui is not good, and now my daughter kills for the same thing, It is destined to be a sin!"

"Yeah! What a sin!" People also said one after another.

In 1983, he won the first prize for the novella of the United Daily News, Li Ang's work "Killing the Husband", it is conceivable that during the martial law period, it must have caused a lot of discussion. In addition to "slaughtering a husband", which is regarded as the following crimes in the traditional society, the content is based on the rural society, and it also depicts the gossip atmosphere of street talk in traditional society, how to prevent a person from seeking help from outside , and finally ended in tragedy. Although it is a work from about 40 years ago, the various plots in it are still ironically seen everywhere in modern society, and at the same time, people can't help but reflect on whether they have unknowingly become an accomplice in a certain tragedy.

In addition to the award-winning work "Killing the Husband", the book "Killing the Husband" published by Lianjing also collects eight other short stories. A total of nine novels are based on women in rural society, and they talk about these heroines who are not tolerated by traditional values ​​for various reasons, as well as the Taoism around them. As the focus of this book, "Killing the Husband" is based on a murder case, and extends the protagonist Lin Shi, how he was forced into a predicament under the domestic violence of his husband and the verbal bullying of his neighbors, and when he was suppressed to the end, he launched the most violent counterattack. .

Outstanding Criminal Minds Writing of Long-Term Violent Perpetrators

As other commenters have said, "Killing the Husband" is a classic work of criminal psychology. Although some of the words are "retro" due to different times, the author's delicate description skills accurately show how Lin Shi In the process of experiencing a series of incidents, including seeing the tragedy of her mother when she was a child, being abandoned by her parents, becoming a victim of sexual and domestic violence, being bullied by neighbors, etc., her mental state was constantly changing. With characters as the main character and scenery as a supplement, whether it is reeds, sunlight, or even pig's head noodles, the things that appear in the novel's scenes also become the main characters in the author's writing to set off the atmosphere.

Compared with "Killing the Husband", although the first eight novels are independent, they can see the relationship between each other from the names, just like seeing this small village called "Lucheng" from eight different perspectives. It not only writes about the weakness of women in traditional values, but also the character "Li Su" that runs through several of them. Through the stories, it seems to show how these oppressed women ironically turned around and joined the oppression step by step. the ranks of the people.

There are many people in Lucheng who appreciate Cai Guan's prudence. They thought that only Wen Jinshi's family could train such a daughter who knew propriety, righteousness, and debated right and wrong, but people with more modest hearts thought that Cai Guan ended up doing laundry for most of his life because of this.

However, no one has ever calculated how many family disputes in Lucheng have been caused by Cai Guan's right and wrong conscience, how many people's hearts have been hurt, or how many people's innocence has been destroyed, and how many people and things have been broken. -<Cai Guan>

The murderer is not only a conspiracy of society and the perpetrator

Some people will think that "Killing the Husband" is one of the works of feminism, but regardless of the content, at least in the title of the book, when the "woman" in the original "Woman Killing the Husband" disappeared and was changed to only "Killing the Husband", The removal of female subjectivity may greatly weaken its persuasiveness. However. The plot is still shocking and thought-provoking. Especially when gossip has become a profession that a group of people rely on for a living, and it is acceptable to listen to and say, even in today's belief, reading "Killing Husband" is more reminiscent of the once smashing rap song "More Than One Murderer". .

To get to the bottom of it, no matter the plot in the book or the various disturbances in the real society, it may all originate from the deepest nature of human beings, and all this seems to be not just the atmosphere of traditional Taiwanese society, but a common phenomenon in Taiwan. Original sin in the human heart. But just as the saying goes, "Curiosity killed the cat", humans may one day kill themselves because of these voyeurs and vanity.

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