Chapter 13 commentary

In the past, I used to write so-called pure literature novels in magazines called literary magazines.As for what is pure literature, it is impossible to define now, but at that time he believed that the works he created were pure literature. In the field of pure literature, I have never been able to make a difference.Although I have worked very hard to create, there are extremely few works printed in typeface. In other words, no matter how much I write, it is useless! I also thought about giving up the path of novel creation, but once some of my works became typefaces, I was reluctant to ignore my talent. Unknowingly, this kind of life lasted for ten years.It stands to reason that if you continue for ten years, you can’t become a great tool. No matter how stupid you are, you should realize that you lack talent. However, I still don’t stop. After a whole year of completely stopping writing, I try my best to write what I want to write thing.

It may be that there are too many dissatisfied desires in the body!Within half a year, I completed two full-length works.Considering it now, it doesn't count as much, but to me at the time, it was already an astonishing amount.One of them was fortunately published in print, and the other was also published after a complete rewrite. Looking back now, it was really a time when all obstacles were overcome. I even feel that I am not particularly capable and talented in writing, it is all because of luck. Why write this matter?Because I have served as a judge for several newcomer awards and have been in contact with the works of newcomers for a long time, I have an idea in my heart.

I feel that there are many works that are well written, but they are only good, and there is still something that is not enough.I myself tried to understand what it was, but I couldn't express it in words. I just felt that it seemed to be an invisible barrier between newcomers and writers, and it was very difficult to break through! Later, when I re-read my so-called virgin novel, the first thing I felt was that it was written too badly, but in the midst of that badness, I could still see something else—an inexplicable, inexplicable, almost Something like energy. And I also found that I have completely lost this energy now.It is something that exists only at that time, no, it should be energy that can be concentrated and exploded at that time.This work can be published as a book. On the one hand, it is lucky, but on the other hand, it is because the energy plays a positive role in each stage!

In the works of quite a few newcomers that I have read now, this kind of energy is always lacking, that is to say, did I forget the energy that sprouts from the hard bark?Or is it not available?Anyway, it only has the energy to make the buds bloom. However, I have also encountered works that can make people feel full of energy enough to break through the hard bark with all their strength, and this book is one of them. When I was a judge for the Edogawa Ranpo Prize, I read this work for the first time, and when this work was about to be published in the library edition, I re-read it again in order to write a commentary. As a result, my impression did not change.I think this is the best sample, newcomers must have this kind of cohesion when they set foot on the literary world!

This book won the Ranpo Award. Although it is widely read as a baseball mystery novel, what makes me happy is that after reading it again, my initial impression of it as a youth novel has not changed, because it does have the characteristics of a youth novel. universality.Yes, it describes baseball, but through baseball, it portrays the enthusiasm, stupidity and innocence of youth more strongly. The style is concise, traditional, powerful, and the structure is rigorous. The murder happened only as a last resort. Compared with my debut novel, it is obviously much better.Most importantly, the whole book is filled with inexplicable energy!If the author used to be a player on the baseball team of the University of Tokyo, and the enthusiasm for baseball at that time was the source of energy, then I can admit that this is a baseball mystery novel, but the scope of this work is wider and broader. limited to baseball.

In terms of content, since there are so many parts that use the techniques of mystery novels, it is best to avoid talking about them. However, during the period before and after the author set foot in the literary world, there were many writers who created original reasoning in the Japanese novel world. Whether the author can be regarded as one of them must wait for a while to determine, because this work has the same basic reasoning. Something on the thin line of the novel, probably because the author's focus is not on tricks, but on the human heart and its sense of existence. Although this book adopts the method of speculative fiction, it is only a method. What the author really wants to write is his inner cry. Because of this, he was able to break through the hard bark and sprout.

About ten years ago, there were a lot of writers who wrote adventure novels, and I was also classified as one of them, but in fact I didn't know whether I was writing adventure novels or ruthless novels.Anyway, that's what writing is all about. The author does not have to worry about whether it is a mystery novel or a youth novel, as long as he continues to write, after the work is completed, someone will naturally label it. When it comes to labels, some people may want to read corporate novels or overseas spy novels written by him because the author is currently an employee of a representative Japanese trading company and has a legitimate social job, but this can only be said to be the reader's choice. Be willful!From my standpoint, I am a witness of the moment when the author sprouts, and I can only hope that the sprouts will slowly grow into branches, and then let the beautiful flowers bloom.

The work of writing novels is lonely, and the act of reading is also lonely, and through typefaces and books, the two kinds of loneliness are connected and combined. No matter in any era, so-called novels are always like this, let the different loneliness of countless readers who don't know where people are, through the combination of works and author's loneliness, touch countless lonely hearts. The author of this book may confirm countless times in his continuous creative activities in the future: how meaningful it is to have such a book!