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獻給虛無的供物
《獻給虛無的供物》是中井英夫於1962年拿去參加江戶川亂步獎，並以未完成品的資格得到第二名的作品，在1963年的每日新聞以及推理雜誌獲得戰後二十年最佳推理小說第一名，並被後人推選為與夢野久作的《腦髓地獄》、小栗虫太郎的《黑死館殺人事件》並列的日本三大奇書（後來又加入竹本健治的《匣中的失樂》而成為四大奇書）。這本書最吸引人、也是成為奇書之一的特點在於，它雖名為推理小說，實質上卻是反推理小說的究極之作。
中井英夫以1954年9月北海道洞爺丸號翻覆的事件為發想，構思出《獻給虛無的供物》一書，內容以一個被不幸環繞的家族「冰沼」為舞台，發展出多起密室殺人事件，透過各書中各人物的推理來羅織事實的真相。在充分呈現推理的趣味之同時，也讓人產生虛幻、奇幻之感，而且處處透露出反推理的意味，因而被推舉為「反推理小說」的代表。
中井英夫以1954年9月北海道洞爺丸號翻覆的事件為發想，構思出《獻給虛無的供物》一書，內容以一個被不幸環繞的家族「冰沼」為舞台，發展出多起密室殺人事件，透過各書中各人物的推理來羅織事實的真相。在充分呈現推理的趣味之同時，也讓人產生虛幻、奇幻之感，而且處處透露出反推理的意味，因而被推舉為「反推理小說」的代表。
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512 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1974
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October 24, 2022
Kyomu E No Kumotsu, or Offerings to the Void ('Offrande au neant', and it's from a pome, Le Vin perdu) or 獻給虛無的供物, was a crime and mystery novel by Japanese novelist Hideo Nakai. This is one of the books famed as the 'Four Books of Wonders in the field of Japanese crime and mystery novels.
Well... 'Four Books of Wonders? Let's call these four books 'Four Books of Mind Fuck' or 'The Four Most Mind-Fucking Books' among the Japanese crime and mystery novels. It's what these books really are.
Reading process@30/05/2022: I am in the middle of getting mind fucked by this book. LOL
What’s what in the story:
In post-war Japan, a group of young men and women gathered in a gay bar and discussed a series of mysterious death that took place in a decaying rich family (their friend happened to be a member of this ‘cursed’ family). Was the Curse of the Snake God which supposedly haunted the family real or was the detective getting too ahead of themselves with their guesswork?
Were those mysterious cases of accidents and suicide just coincidence, or was there a wicked mastermind pulling the strings while plotting the death of an entire family?
This novel is…a mind fuck, as you might have already noticed.
Once again, the author kept throwing his book bags at you with his knowledge of mythology, history, Japanese and Western literature, occultism and religions etc, etc. If you like these spicy things you will like this book, I guess. The amateur detectives in the story also kept throwing one hypothesis after another to 'determine' who the supposed murderer really was. The answer to who the murderer really is just keep changing, sometimes even the murdered victim also had a hidden agenda, sometimes we can't even be sure whether a shady character is a real person or not, so everything is pretty confusing at times. That's pretty much the whole story.
But I do like some of the supposed schemes and some of the explanations about what is truly going on here.
The Four Books of Wonders:
Dogra Magra, by Kyūsaku Yumeno, (Translation: Encephalon Hell or Pericardium Hell, or Braincell Hell): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
My review for 'Kokushikan Satsujin Jiken' (Translation: Murder At the Mansion of Black Death): https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
匣の中の失楽, by 竹本健治, (Translation: The Lost Music in the Box): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
虚無への供物 by 中井英夫, (Translation: Offerings to the Void): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Well... 'Four Books of Wonders? Let's call these four books 'Four Books of Mind Fuck' or 'The Four Most Mind-Fucking Books' among the Japanese crime and mystery novels. It's what these books really are.
Reading process@30/05/2022: I am in the middle of getting mind fucked by this book. LOL
What’s what in the story:
In post-war Japan, a group of young men and women gathered in a gay bar and discussed a series of mysterious death that took place in a decaying rich family (their friend happened to be a member of this ‘cursed’ family). Was the Curse of the Snake God which supposedly haunted the family real or was the detective getting too ahead of themselves with their guesswork?
Were those mysterious cases of accidents and suicide just coincidence, or was there a wicked mastermind pulling the strings while plotting the death of an entire family?
This novel is…a mind fuck, as you might have already noticed.
Once again, the author kept throwing his book bags at you with his knowledge of mythology, history, Japanese and Western literature, occultism and religions etc, etc. If you like these spicy things you will like this book, I guess. The amateur detectives in the story also kept throwing one hypothesis after another to 'determine' who the supposed murderer really was. The answer to who the murderer really is just keep changing, sometimes even the murdered victim also had a hidden agenda, sometimes we can't even be sure whether a shady character is a real person or not, so everything is pretty confusing at times. That's pretty much the whole story.
But I do like some of the supposed schemes and some of the explanations about what is truly going on here.
The Four Books of Wonders:
Dogra Magra, by Kyūsaku Yumeno, (Translation: Encephalon Hell or Pericardium Hell, or Braincell Hell): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
My review for 'Kokushikan Satsujin Jiken' (Translation: Murder At the Mansion of Black Death): https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
匣の中の失楽, by 竹本健治, (Translation: The Lost Music in the Box): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
虚無への供物 by 中井英夫, (Translation: Offerings to the Void): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
June 10, 2021
2015的閱讀筆記：
文學性強烈。然而因為必須非常集中精神閱讀文句中的能指所指以及進行抽象想像，睡眠缺乏的情況我看得屢屢快睡著……論象徵，凡是提到顏色啊（誕生）寶石啊和花語祝福寓意一樣之於我都是絲毫感覺不到共感的存在。如果再加上花香就更慘了。對花的氣味能逐漸接受也是近年的事。
另外遲緩的原因或許是多重推理吧。（縱使以局外人角度來看有點wtf你們還好嗎）然而推理中又充滿「精神上如此所以渴望追求ｏｏｘｘ以致ｘｘｏｏ」文學性所以份量特別足，難以消化。另外不時冒出「殺人者懂得想得還真特么多如此深刻寓意還聯想得如此文藝都能當文壇祭酒了」的突兀感。
以及時代差距……瓦斯設計是怎回事。還有這群人到底是以推理為樂還是現實為譜，搬推理規則出來講也是醉（作者到底是想諷刺還是彼時真的很新奇）。
閱畢。莫名受到某種「這才是在創作啊！」的精心布局程度鼓舞。沒個章節是在偷懶的，也不是現今常有的詭計→解謎的簡單作品。我的天，這不是通俗小說，而是傾注個人能力素養的宏偉之作。雖然最終透過人物傾訴內容宛若蛇精病，那也是，屬於文學作品典型的蛇精病。嗯，給予很高的評價。
不我根本不能站在高處給這作品評價……就像對自動販賣機說好棒裡面什麼都有的路人甲一樣。#謎之感動#
（去日本旅遊時）因為陳列架上的商品（birthday bunko)發現生日跟作者同日。大概是電波感召。
文學性強烈。然而因為必須非常集中精神閱讀文句中的能指所指以及進行抽象想像，睡眠缺乏的情況我看得屢屢快睡著……論象徵，凡是提到顏色啊（誕生）寶石啊和花語祝福寓意一樣之於我都是絲毫感覺不到共感的存在。如果再加上花香就更慘了。對花的氣味能逐漸接受也是近年的事。
另外遲緩的原因或許是多重推理吧。（縱使以局外人角度來看有點wtf你們還好嗎）然而推理中又充滿「精神上如此所以渴望追求ｏｏｘｘ以致ｘｘｏｏ」文學性所以份量特別足，難以消化。另外不時冒出「殺人者懂得想得還真特么多如此深刻寓意還聯想得如此文藝都能當文壇祭酒了」的突兀感。
以及時代差距……瓦斯設計是怎回事。還有這群人到底是以推理為樂還是現實為譜，搬推理規則出來講也是醉（作者到底是想諷刺還是彼時真的很新奇）。
閱畢。莫名受到某種「這才是在創作啊！」的精心布局程度鼓舞。沒個章節是在偷懶的，也不是現今常有的詭計→解謎的簡單作品。我的天，這不是通俗小說，而是傾注個人能力素養的宏偉之作。雖然最終透過人物傾訴內容宛若蛇精病，那也是，屬於文學作品典型的蛇精病。嗯，給予很高的評價。
不我根本不能站在高處給這作品評價……就像對自動販賣機說好棒裡面什麼都有的路人甲一樣。#謎之感動#
（去日本旅遊時）因為陳列架上的商品（birthday bunko)發現生日跟作者同日。大概是電波感召。
August 16, 2012
The author called it an anti-detective fiction. Understand the cruelty of treating people's deaths as mere puzzles, mysteries to solve, and you would understand the story itself. Beneath its surface, like many it is a reprimand on the apathetic and thrill-seeking modern society.
September 30, 2022
很拖拉的故事，很多情節滿多餘或顯得刻意，案件的編造有點不自然，結局也不精彩，很難抓人注意力，看得頗累。優點是文字挺優雅，還有引申滿多推理名作，可以感受到作者對推理小說的熱愛。
December 30, 2022
有种奇怪的感觉，其实我可能比能够承认的更喜欢这个故事
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