The Summer of the Ubume

出版者:Vertical

作者:Natsuhiko Kyogoku

页数:320

译者:Alexander O. Smith

出版时间:2009-8-18

价格:USD 16.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781934287255

具体描述

In Japanese folklore, a ghost that arise from the burial of a pregnant woman is an Ubume .

The Summer of Ubume is the first of Japan's hugely popular Kyogokudo series, which has 9 titles and 4 spinoffs thus far.

Akihiko "Kyogokudo" Chuzenji, the title's hero, is an exorcist with a twist: he doesn't blieve in ghosts. To circumnavigate his clients' inability to come to grips with a problem being their own, he creates fake supernatural explanations--ghosts--that he the "exorcises" by way of staged rituals. His patients' belief that he has vanquished the ghost creating their problems cures them.

In this first adventure, Kyogokudo, must unravel the mystery of a woman who has been pregnant for 20 months and find her husband, who disappeared two months into the pregnancy. And unravel he does, in the book's final disturbing scene.

作者简介

京极夏彦，1963年3月26日出生于北海道小樽。日本最可能得到诺贝尔文学奖的推理小说家。在成为作家之前，原本是平面设计，业务内容包括书籍的装帧等。他在工作之余，写下了处女作《姑获鸟之夏》，而于1994年出版的此作如今已成为推理史上的不朽名着。1995年出版的《魍魉之匣》只是他的第二部小说，就拿下第四十九届日本推理作家协会奖。

京极堂系列小说人物设定鲜明、布局精彩、架构繁复，举重若轻的书写极具压倒性魅力，书籍甫出版便风靡大众，读者群遍及各年龄层与行业。京极夏彦目前正以让人瞠目结舌的奇快速度创作，被誉为“神”一样的创作者。

读后感

看完后对某些概念总觉得很模糊，于是汇总了下。大家互相补充。 以下解释均来自网络： 1.玫瑰十字： 玫瑰十字会（Rosenkreutzer，Rosicrucians）为近代欧洲宗教秘密会社。17世纪，开始出现于德意志。会名可能得自该会的标记即十字架上一朵玫瑰花，或来自该会传说中15世纪创...  

京极夏彦是在用写论文的方式些推理小说，这也是很多炫学成分的作者们让人又爱又恨的地安。写论文，就需要找到一个很好的角度和有趣的立论点，然后展开论述。这点在京极夏彦、麻耶雄嵩、岛田庄司、绫迁行人等人身上特别明显。 诚然，这样的方式会让小说显得非常复杂，涉及到各...  

我看到最后才隐隐的了解，原来京极堂一直捂着不让看的东西，原来不是光怪陆离的老太太们的话题 ；是社会学怀抱里的一株奇葩----民俗学。 民俗学：民俗学（folklore）是一门针对信仰、风俗、口传文学、传统文化及思考模式进行研究，来阐明这些民俗现象在时空中流变意义的学科。...  

這世上沒有不可思議的事，只存在可能存在之物，只發生可能發生之事。 如果說JING是我最喜愛的漫畫，那麼京極夏彥的作品無疑就是我最喜愛的小說。 而我對京極作品如此著迷的原因何在呢？ 一來是推理題材，這點往後有機會再說。 二來就是妖怪題材，雖說不上是妖怪發燒友，但我一...  

《姑获鸟之夏》是值得反复玩味的经典小说，就是说，这是本即便知道了结局，还会忍不住去重头体会、寻找、验证的书，光那个看得见别人记忆的侦探，就很让我很有兴趣去验证他的“线索”。当然，首先要有耐心挺过那教科书一样的、让人头晕脑胀的京极堂先生的大篇论述，我认为这是...  

用户评价

A book of continuous "babbling" of the main character, Kyogokudo. But strangely the "babbling", which actually is the combination of the processes of conjecture and exorcism, is quite charming and enlightening. It's hard not to admire the knowledge of the writer after reading it, whom is said to be the closest to Nobel Prize among Japanese writers.

当科普书来读的

当科普书来读的

原作是神。翻译太囧……

A book of continuous "babbling" of the main character, Kyogokudo. But strangely the "babbling", which actually is the combination of the processes of conjecture and exorcism, is quite charming and enlightening. It's hard not to admire the knowledge of the writer after reading it, whom is said to be the closest to Nobel Prize among Japanese writers.