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猿の見る夢
これまでで一番愛おしい男を描いた――桐野夏生
自分はかなりのクラスに属する人間だ。
大手一流銀行の出身、出向先では常務の席も見えてきた。実家には二百坪のお屋敷があり、十年来の愛人もいる。
そんな俺の人生の歪(ひず)みは、社長のセクハラ問題と、あの女の出現から始まった――。
還暦、定年、老後――終わらない男”の姿を、現代社会を活写し続ける著者が衝撃的に描き切る!
週刊現代読者の圧倒的支持を得た人気連載が、ついに書籍化!
自分はかなりのクラスに属する人間だ。
大手一流銀行の出身、出向先では常務の席も見えてきた。実家には二百坪のお屋敷があり、十年来の愛人もいる。
そんな俺の人生の歪(ひず)みは、社長のセクハラ問題と、あの女の出現から始まった――。
還暦、定年、老後――終わらない男”の姿を、現代社会を活写し続ける著者が衝撃的に描き切る!
週刊現代読者の圧倒的支持を得た人気連載が、ついに書籍化!
458 pages, Hardcover
First published August 9, 2016
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About the author
Natsuo Kirino
96 books2,800 followersNATSUO KIRINO (桐野夏生), born in 1951 in Kanazawa (Ishikawa Prefecture) was an active and spirited child brought up between her two brothers, one being six years older and the other five years younger than her. Kirino's father, being an architect, took the family to many cities, and Kirino spent her youth in Sendai, Sapporo, and finally settled in Tokyo when she was fourteen, which is where she has been residing since. Kirino showed glimpses of her talent as a writer in her early stages—she was a child with great deal of curiosity, and also a child who could completely immerse herself in her own unique world of imagination.
After completing her law degree, Kirino worked in various fields before becoming a fictional writer; including scheduling and organizing films to be shown in a movie theater, and working as an editor and writer for a magazine publication. She got married to her present husband when she turned twenty-four, and began writing professionally, after giving birth to her daughter, at age thirty. However, it was not until Kirino was forty-one that she made her major debut. Since then, she has written thirteen full-length novels and three volumes of collective short stories, which are highly acclaimed for her intriguingly intelligent plot development and character portrayal, and her unique perspective of Japanese society after the collapse of the economic bubble.
Today, Kirino continues to enthusiastically write in a range of interesting genres. Her smash hit novel OUT (Kodansha, 1997) became the first work to be translated into English and other languages. OUT was also nominated for the 2004 MWA Edgar Allan Poe Award in the Best Novel Category, which made Kirino the first Japanese writer to be nominated for this major literary award. Her other works are now under way to be translated and published around the world.
After completing her law degree, Kirino worked in various fields before becoming a fictional writer; including scheduling and organizing films to be shown in a movie theater, and working as an editor and writer for a magazine publication. She got married to her present husband when she turned twenty-four, and began writing professionally, after giving birth to her daughter, at age thirty. However, it was not until Kirino was forty-one that she made her major debut. Since then, she has written thirteen full-length novels and three volumes of collective short stories, which are highly acclaimed for her intriguingly intelligent plot development and character portrayal, and her unique perspective of Japanese society after the collapse of the economic bubble.
Today, Kirino continues to enthusiastically write in a range of interesting genres. Her smash hit novel OUT (Kodansha, 1997) became the first work to be translated into English and other languages. OUT was also nominated for the 2004 MWA Edgar Allan Poe Award in the Best Novel Category, which made Kirino the first Japanese writer to be nominated for this major literary award. Her other works are now under way to be translated and published around the world.
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August 24, 2021
明明不是推理小說，但我卻用一種前所未見又非比尋常的速度看完了。還熬了一夜，行屍走肉了一天。
故事圍繞在中年男子薄井的身上。他隨著時間的推進，漸漸地變得越來越淒慘。不得不說，薄井是個非常討人厭的中年男人。是個慾望極重，非常不討喜的主角。他長年和比他小十三歲的美優子搞外遇，還覬覦公司比他小二十歲的朝川。時常把妻子、情人和想要得到的女人拿來做比較。言行舉止和想法都非常的猥瑣噁心。
薄井的人格隨著公司裡發生了事件和薄井的母親去世後變得更差勁。他不止貪色，在公司是個搖擺不定的牆頭草，到最後甚至因為分不到遺產而銷毀母親的遺書。
而把他逼入絕境的除了接二連三的噩運之外，還有他妻子請回來的「解夢師」青峰老師。她大概真的能解夢，但其實就算她不行也不會阻礙故事發展。反正故事裡的每一個人都顯露出他們最糟一面。除了薄井的二兒子翔之外，大家好像都是惡人。
反正到最後薄井他失去所有他一直努力維持和想要的一切。他的末路大概就是孤獨終老吧？
其實，這樣一本全員惡人又太現實的書並不是會讓我一頁接著一頁翻閱的故事。但作者描述薄井婚外情的心理和行為卻讓我有點…好奇？執著？反正我在非常有限的閒暇時光，不惜犧牲睡眠也給她嗑完了。
然後這是第二次讀這個作家的書，果然還是一片的昏暗啊。
故事圍繞在中年男子薄井的身上。他隨著時間的推進，漸漸地變得越來越淒慘。不得不說，薄井是個非常討人厭的中年男人。是個慾望極重，非常不討喜的主角。他長年和比他小十三歲的美優子搞外遇，還覬覦公司比他小二十歲的朝川。時常把妻子、情人和想要得到的女人拿來做比較。言行舉止和想法都非常的猥瑣噁心。
薄井的人格隨著公司裡發生了事件和薄井的母親去世後變得更差勁。他不止貪色，在公司是個搖擺不定的牆頭草，到最後甚至因為分不到遺產而銷毀母親的遺書。
而把他逼入絕境的除了接二連三的噩運之外，還有他妻子請回來的「解夢師」青峰老師。她大概真的能解夢，但其實就算她不行也不會阻礙故事發展。反正故事裡的每一個人都顯露出他們最糟一面。除了薄井的二兒子翔之外，大家好像都是惡人。
反正到最後薄井他失去所有他一直努力維持和想要的一切。他的末路大概就是孤獨終老吧？
其實，這樣一本全員惡人又太現實的書並不是會讓我一頁接著一頁翻閱的故事。但作者描述薄井婚外情的心理和行為卻讓我有點…好奇？執著？反正我在非常有限的閒暇時光，不惜犧牲睡眠也給她嗑完了。
然後這是第二次讀這個作家的書，果然還是一片的昏暗啊。
November 9, 2021
狡猾又猥瑣的薄井，跟長峰這個犀利角色構成了微妙的制衡關係。在世俗的日常之下窺見人性底層的卑劣和狹隘，桐野夏生所描繪的就是那個令人無法安身的世界。
August 8, 2023
猥琐男这种难以喘息地日子，再来几百页也没问题👌
June 6, 2025
A good read.
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