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世界でもっとも深い迷宮
1980年代に流行したゲームブックの体裁を意識した実験的な短編。既存の純文学から遥か遠く、「円城流」としか言い様のない、独特のフィクション世界が展開される。
主人公は「あなた」と二人称で呼びかけられる人物。読者は「ジョン」という名前と傭兵の役割を与えられ、「Ｕ」という名の迷宮＝ダンジョンで死闘を繰り広げるＲＰＧの主役として振る舞うよう迫られる。「現実世界よりも大きな広がりを持つ」Ｕにおける冒険はどこへ向かうのか？
ラスボスたる「魔王」とは何者なのか？
ゲームブックは、直線的な物語の形式を離れ、読者が物語の展開に参加できるように、複数の筋立てを用意したところに妙味があったが、紙の本から、ゲーム機、ＰＣ、スマートフォンへと端末が進化を遂げ、「ゲーム」と「ブック」が乖離していく中、運命の変転を余儀なくされていく。
物語生成プログラムにペンネームの由来をもつ作家にふさわしい、摩訶不思議な作品。
円城塔（えんじょう とう）
北海道札幌市生まれ。2007年、『オブ・ザ・ベースボール』で第104回文學界新人賞、2010年、『烏有此譚』で第32回野間文芸新人賞、2011年、第3回早稲田大学坪内逍遙大賞奨励賞、2012年、『道化師の蝶』で第146Þ
主人公は「あなた」と二人称で呼びかけられる人物。読者は「ジョン」という名前と傭兵の役割を与えられ、「Ｕ」という名の迷宮＝ダンジョンで死闘を繰り広げるＲＰＧの主役として振る舞うよう迫られる。「現実世界よりも大きな広がりを持つ」Ｕにおける冒険はどこへ向かうのか？
ラスボスたる「魔王」とは何者なのか？
ゲームブックは、直線的な物語の形式を離れ、読者が物語の展開に参加できるように、複数の筋立てを用意したところに妙味があったが、紙の本から、ゲーム機、ＰＣ、スマートフォンへと端末が進化を遂げ、「ゲーム」と「ブック」が乖離していく中、運命の変転を余儀なくされていく。
物語生成プログラムにペンネームの由来をもつ作家にふさわしい、摩訶不思議な作品。
円城塔（えんじょう とう）
北海道札幌市生まれ。2007年、『オブ・ザ・ベースボール』で第104回文學界新人賞、2010年、『烏有此譚』で第32回野間文芸新人賞、2011年、第3回早稲田大学坪内逍遙大賞奨励賞、2012年、『道化師の蝶』で第146Þ
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Published November 13, 2016
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About the author
Toh EnJoe
40 books29 followersToh EnJoe (Japanese: 円城 塔 Hepburn: Enjō Tō, pen name) (born September 15, 1972) is a Japanese author. His works are usually literary fiction, speculative fiction or science fiction.
Born in 1972 in Sapporo, he graduated from the physics department of Tohoku University, then went on to the graduate school at University of Tokyo and received Ph.D. for a mathematical physical study on the natural languages. He worked as a post-doc researcher at several research institutes for seven years, then abandoned the academic career in 2007 and found a programmer job at a software firm (resigns in 2008 to become a full-time writer).
In 2006, he submitted Self-Reference ENGINE to a science-fiction novel contest Komatsu Sakyō Award. Although it did not win the award (none did in this year), it was published from Hayakawa Shobō in 2007. At almost same time, his short story Obu za bēsbōru ("Of The Baseball") won the contest of literary magazine Bungakukai, which became his debut in literary fiction.[3]
His literary fictions are often dense with allusions. Labyrinthine annotations were added to "Uyūshitan" when it was published in book form in 2009, where there were none when published initially in literary magazine. Often, his science fiction works take motif from mathematics. The narrator of "Boy's Surface" (2007) is a morphism, and the title is a reference to a geometrical notion. In "Moonshine" (2009), natural numbers are sentient through a savant's mind's eye in a field of the monster group.
Project Itoh's Genocidal Organ was also a finalist of Komatsu Sakyō Award contest and published from Hayakawa Shobō in 2007, along with Enjoe's Self-Reference ENGINE. Since then they often appeared together at science fiction conventions and interviews, and collaborated in a few works, until Itoh's death of cancer in 2009.
At the press conference after the announcement of Enjoe's Akutagawa Prize in January 2012, he revealed the plan to complete Itoh's unfinished novel Shisha no teikoku. It was published in August 2012, and received the Special Award of Nihon SF Taisho.
Born in 1972 in Sapporo, he graduated from the physics department of Tohoku University, then went on to the graduate school at University of Tokyo and received Ph.D. for a mathematical physical study on the natural languages. He worked as a post-doc researcher at several research institutes for seven years, then abandoned the academic career in 2007 and found a programmer job at a software firm (resigns in 2008 to become a full-time writer).
In 2006, he submitted Self-Reference ENGINE to a science-fiction novel contest Komatsu Sakyō Award. Although it did not win the award (none did in this year), it was published from Hayakawa Shobō in 2007. At almost same time, his short story Obu za bēsbōru ("Of The Baseball") won the contest of literary magazine Bungakukai, which became his debut in literary fiction.[3]
His literary fictions are often dense with allusions. Labyrinthine annotations were added to "Uyūshitan" when it was published in book form in 2009, where there were none when published initially in literary magazine. Often, his science fiction works take motif from mathematics. The narrator of "Boy's Surface" (2007) is a morphism, and the title is a reference to a geometrical notion. In "Moonshine" (2009), natural numbers are sentient through a savant's mind's eye in a field of the monster group.
Project Itoh's Genocidal Organ was also a finalist of Komatsu Sakyō Award contest and published from Hayakawa Shobō in 2007, along with Enjoe's Self-Reference ENGINE. Since then they often appeared together at science fiction conventions and interviews, and collaborated in a few works, until Itoh's death of cancer in 2009.
At the press conference after the announcement of Enjoe's Akutagawa Prize in January 2012, he revealed the plan to complete Itoh's unfinished novel Shisha no teikoku. It was published in August 2012, and received the Special Award of Nihon SF Taisho.
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