《黑死馆杀人事件》【深刻影响“经营之神”松下幸之助的奇书。詹慕如经典译本】

by 小栗虫太郎

日本四大奇书始祖！江户川乱步震惊不已！炫学推理的前无古人，后无来者之作。深刻影响“经营之神”松下幸之助的奇书。超人作家，本格派大师小栗虫太郎代表作，被公认是一本高智商才能看懂的书，专治各种不服。


编辑推荐：
1、 日本推理小说四大奇书始祖！被公认是一本高智商才能看懂的书，专治各种不服。
2、 江户川乱步震惊不已！炫学推理的前无古人，后无来者之作。
3、 日本著名本格推理大师，有“超人作家”之称的小栗虫太郎，被公认为江户川派继承人。
4、 封面设计由许晋维操刀。许晋维是继王志宏之、聂永真之后的台湾最具影响力的设计师。其作品曾获“两岸出版设计大奖——金衣奖”。代表作《罗生门》《地狱变》《小丑之花》。
5、 深刻影响松下幸之助的奇书
我可以读懂《孙子兵法》和《黑死馆杀人事件》，
所以管理企业对我来说是很简单的。
6、经典译本
詹慕如，翻译作品见推理、文学、设计、童书等各领域。近期译作有《脑髓地狱》、《黑死馆杀人事件》等。其文笔被评为“如万花筒般的色彩”，在豆瓣广受好评。
7、推理小说发烧友，日本小说粉丝+重口味爱好者
• 纯粹追求烧脑，可以去看《黑死馆杀人事件》。
• 如果你喜欢《哈扎根词典》，你也会喜欢《黑死馆杀人事件》；
• 如果你想读懂《黑死馆杀人事件》，那么你需要读完所有本格推理小说。
• 哪一些书，没有相当的阅读量，根本驾驭不了，理解不到？


内容简介：
降矢木家在过去的几十年来，已发生过多起惨案。两对情人在“黑死馆”华丽的卧室中谋杀对方，最后自残丧命。这座由降矢木算哲博士所建，以“黑死病”命名的古堡，因此蒙上一层恐怖面纱。事实上降矢木家族，本身便具有历史知名的魔女、毒妇血统；而其中跟随算哲博士，从欧洲来到日本，从幼儿至成年一步都没踏出过古堡的四人乐师，更是大家津津乐道的话题。至于主人算哲博士，日前才在馆中自杀身亡。
在这样晦暗不明的情况下，死亡再度降临黑死馆。
而这次，黑死馆内出现了计划残杀六人的图纸，还有死状异常离奇的尸体！
凶手的计划与动机究竟为何？为何这座阴森华丽的古堡总是不断发生命案？
隐藏在这座洋馆中的致命恐怖，其真面目将会是……


作者简介：
小栗虫太郎 1901─1946
在日本被称为“超人作家”的推理小说家，幼时有“神童”之称。他的作品博杂炫目、妖异怪诞，每篇都带有百科全书般深不可测的超人学识，读者一旦涉入他的推理世界，必定会迷失方向。1933年，在《新青年》发表《完全犯罪》编辑大为赞赏，小栗虫太郎以此作品跃足推理文坛。
一九三四年，小栗开始在《新青年》杂志连载《黑死馆杀人事件》。这部作品被称为“大推理小说”，是炫学推理的极致之作，是小栗虫太郎风格最集中、最完美的体现。此书轰动了整个日本文坛，成为二战期间日本民众必备读物。无可争议地成为了“日本四大推理奇书”之一。
小栗虫太郎之所以被称为“超人作家”，其原因就是他的作品，确实完全不可能是人类所能写出来的。推理小说史上一定要评选一位怪奇知识研究最深刻、知识面最广的作家，非小栗虫太郎莫数。小栗的作品中，诡计设计具有极致专业的创意，常以高深的医学、化学、物理学、生理学、精神病理学、经典刑事案例等等艰深的知识来构建诡计或者完成推理，作品中常描绘光怪陆离、荒诞诡异、绚烂异色的杀人手法、尸体或现场。作品的晦涩异常，经常被称为“论文式”推理小说。


目录：
序　篇　 降矢木一族释义
第一篇　 关于尸体与两道门
第二篇　浮士德的咒文
第三篇　黑死馆精神病理学
第四篇　诗和甲胄与幻影造
第五篇　第三桩悲剧
第六篇　算哲埋葬之夜
第七篇　法水终于误判？
第八篇　降矢木家的瓦解

394 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1935

Reviews

[Mizuki · Rating 2 out of 5]

Murder At the Mansion of Black Death by Mushitarō Oguri, is widely considered one of 'The Four Books of Wonder' in the realm of Japanese detective/murder mystery novels. So I dutifully read this book for not once, but twice; but in the end I'm disappointed.

Let's talk about the strong points of this novel first: Baroque setting of a serial murder which took place inside an isolated European-style mansion, twisted family secrets, schemes and cursed bloodline, chilling death threats, preposterous murder cases. The story is very complicated in an all-out mind-fucking way, so if mind-fuck is your thing, then you might enjoy this book. Plus the author really did demonstrate his wide knowledge on history, religions, occultism, architecture etc. (the author was known for being REALLY into occultism and he had spent fortunes on collecting rare books on occultism and other rare knowledge, despite not being very well off)

However, the characters are mere pawns to move the plots onward, I never feel sorry for any of the murdered victims because they are so paper-thinned as characters; the same goes for the Great Detective and his companies, it feels like they are mere thinking machines to solve the murder cases than real people.

Furthermore, the author had spent too much screen time on stuffing his story with knowledge of occultism etc, just for the sake of he could do it and for the sake of showing off. In the end, I got bored. I mean, Mr. Oguri I know you liked occultism, a lot; I get it, can we move on to another subject already?

The other novels among the 'Four Books of Wonder' in the History of Japanese Detective Novels:

Dogra Magra, by Kyūsaku Yumeno, (Translation: Encephalon Hell or Pericardium Hell, or Braincell Hell): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
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: The Offerings to the Void): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

My review for Bungo Stray Dogs vol. 14, in which 'Mushitaro Oguri' shows up in the manga as a fictional character, and his special power is 'Perfect Crime' *smirks*: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[F Gato · Rating 1 out of 5]

What the #*€%¥?

It is as if I accidentally opened a door and piles and piles of old European junk (which the writer held as treasure) fell on me. What kind of god is this guy who keeps talking nonsense but sounds mysterious and smart, knows everything and is never wrong. Also he is as arrogant as a fart.

The case and reasons and the resolutions aren’t related at all.

I hope Mushitarō Oguri would meet the author of Name of The Rose in heaven (or actually hell?) and exchange some tips on writting. Or perhaps they’d contempt each other?

[emil · Rating 5 out of 5]

this was horrendous. the murders hardly got solved, and the focus was more on pedantics and occultism than the actual mystery. the so-called master detective was completely useless and pretentious. and guess what?

I FREAKING LOVED IT. Oguri’s writing style is simply gorgeous, despite being so unnatural and jagged. maybe that’s what makes it so awesome. it’s lyrical and ornate. and the murders had so much depth to them, and despite not being the absolute main focus of the book, they were interesting and i was always so ready to hear about them.

bless Mushitarō Oguri. bless.

[DongJae Ryoo · Rating 2 out of 5]

I tried my best to understand the murder story in the black house.
I'm usually okay with criminal fictions and any other genre that requires thinking while reading it. However, this time, I couldn't figure out what the author was trying to say. Perhaps, I need to read this novel again in a few years ... I guess I need to brainstorm this fiction on a A2 paper to get a sense of what was going on in the black house.

[Life · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yeah, who knows what the fuck was going on here.

[Twig · Rating 3 out of 5]

很難讀且讓我一直晃神的一本推理。內容的設計頗刻意且複雜，引經據典了很多玄學與古書來營造文字的華麗感，但其實讀起來滿不自然，編造的詭計都是一些離奇罕見的醫學和科學理論，完全不會有推理的驚喜感受，只會很無奈地覺得「這樣也可以⋯？」。本書的優點就是可以從中學到奇怪的知識，還有認識一堆玄學、魔幻文學、古歐文學的書單。

[Nightkid · Rating 2 out of 5]

號稱是炫學始祖的推理小說，作者在書中一直拋書包，拉拉雜雜寫了很多玄學、神學的奇怪知識，犯罪原因略嫌牽強，個人認為是偏離了推理小說的宗旨。

[冷面 · Rating 1 out of 5]

许多杂乱的信息堆砌在一起，本来推理就难读，作者华丽的词藻更是增加难度，读起来一头雾水，止步于11%。

[James Woo · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5