Seiichi Morimura is a well-known writer familiar to Chinese readers.In Japan, after Seicho Matsumoto, he is known as the most representative leader in the field of social mystery novels. The so-called social reasoning novels use the form of reasoning novels to expose social defects, malpractices, chronic illnesses and human desires and other pathological phenomena.In this sense, it can also be called a problem novel or a cautionary novel. From this collection of eight short stories, we can see that Seiichi Morimura captures themes from different life fields, different social aspects, and different levels of characters, and describes the hundreds of stories with ingenious ideas and sharp writing skills. A world of diverse states.Here, it also embodies the author's likes and dislikes, showing the author's creative intention and artistic style.

, the Japanese original title is called "Dead Match Festival".This is a subject that is not well understood.What is a "dead matchmaker"?It is also the wealth and sex that is enough to cause death.The dead matchmaker sacrifice is to sacrifice the dead matchmaker.The novel takes the Obon Festival as the background and the relationship between husband and wife in a store as the main line. Through a murder case with twists and turns and confusing plots, it reveals the essential characteristics of the relationship between people in capitalist society.Greed for money and beauty are two cups of intoxicating poisoned wine, and even between relatives and close friends, there is an irreparable gap due to this, which leads to murders.

"The Beauty Waving the Handkerchief" describes a low-level employee who is tired of serving the capitalists and discovers a crime of a beautiful girl stealing money and killing people.During his face-to-face investigation, the girl has changed from a poorly paid clerk to the female owner of a luxury club, and she openly stated that she has had close relationships with powerful figures in politics, economics, and the police. Her club dropped bombs, and "Japan will be paralyzed."He had no choice but to sigh, stop the investigation, and hope that the beauty "will also put a terminator on his own life" in his old age.This story points out that the intertwining of wealth, sex, and power will breed greater social danger.

, around the issue of property inheritance, describes the fierce competition and snatching among one wife and two concubines after the death of a capitalist.In the end, the wife who owned all the property failed, and had to fall into the lament of "good times don't last long".Through the description of social conditions and psychological motives, the novel criticizes the drawbacks of the Japanese legal recognition of the concubine system, and reveals women's parasitic status and the dark and complex picture of mutual engulfment in the world. Chasing fame and wealth is a basic ideological incentive that leads to crime. "The Grave on the Mountain" depicts this theme.Two mountain climbers who were keen on fame and fortune were in danger in a snowstorm. The uninjured one threw the injured one into a rock pit to freeze and starve to death.However, the returnee was favored by a large consortium, promoted to an important position as a manager, and became a loyal servant of the capitalists. However, he was domineering and violent, and was killed in retaliation.This shows that in the arena of fame and fortune, people must take risks to survive, and they must degenerate into a vassal of the modern capital system.

"Natural Enemy" is written about a poor college student who runs away from a dead man, and later became a well-known authority on pests and diseases.In order to maintain his reputation and a happy marriage, he designed and killed the "pests" that had parasitized on him by means of extortion.The virulence of crime has actually eroded the supposedly pure and innocent scientific and technological academic field.Natural enemies not only exist in nature, but also in human society, that is, solipsists who disregard the life and death of others for their own self-interest. With the development of material civilization, crimes using computer technology achievements have become a new problem worth noting.Japan's largest financial conglomerate, Lingjing Bank, recruits two highly talented college students. In an exam whose competition rate is as high as dozens of times, one commits suicide because of a computer scoring error; Crowded and oppressed, in an unbearable situation.In order to retaliate, he used the computer to frame the boss who oppressed him, and he himself became a madman in a quiet and boring life. The novel "Quiet Madness" reflects the fierceness and cruelty of capitalist competition.

In "Double Corpse", a low-level employee of the company who is not surprising in appearance and talent is selected by a stunning female employee who is desperately pursued by young people from far and near.After marriage, a beloved daughter was born, and he was intoxicated in the sweet and happy life.Later, because a mouse killed the baby girl, there was a rift with his wife, and the two parties agreed to divorce.Not long after, his wife was hit and killed by a high-speed car on a suburban road, only to find out that his wife had an adulterous relationship with the director of the company. The reason why she chose this employee was also a fog barrier deliberately set up by the director of the company to cover up the long-term adultery.The rich and powerful can take possession of immature and weak women, and can deceive honest and honest husbands. In a society where money dominates everything, love is extremely false.

The proliferation of sex is a major disaster in capitalist society. The mother in "Sexual Toxic Saliva" who hoped that her daughter would become a dragon, did not hesitate to sell her body to the dean in order to get her daughter a chance to be admitted to a famous high school.Where did the Provost's STD come from?It turned out that the only daughter had a sexual relationship with the tutor. She also passed on the venereal disease she contracted from the tutor to the dean in order to win the exam.It was in such a vicious circle that this happy family was destroyed.Through the seriousness of sexual promiscuity, the novel exposes the corruption in the sacred field of education and raises a serious social problem.

What does the clusters of ghosts in the world, social undercurrents, and murders depicted by the author mean?Japanese society with highly developed material civilization turned out to be such a polluted world with spiritual decadence, moral depravity, extravagant style and chaotic order.All of these should and must be explored from the capitalist system itself. There is such a passage in "Sexual Poison Saliva", which can be regarded as the author's earnest and serious warning - "In today's world, even if you haven't done anything bad, you will be persecuted by others; if you don't hurt others, you will be hurt by others; if you don't offend others, you will be violated by others."

"Little happiness is so fragile. A society with a high degree of material civilization will be smashed to pieces by the ferocious will bred by this indifference!"