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霧の中
※この商品はタブレットなど大きいディスプレイを備えた端末で読むことに適しています。また、文字だけを拡大することや、文字列のハイライト、検索、辞書の参照、引用などの機能が使用できません。1981年、パリで留学生仲間のオランダ人女子学生殺害し、その死体の一部を食したとして逮捕された著者が、事件の一部始終を詳細に記した小説仕立ての手記——それが本作『霧の中』。ストーカー、異常犯罪の心理、心神喪失、カニバリズム……長い間絶版になっていた『霧の中』の「小説」部分をそのまま復刻し、〝佐川問題〟の現在的意義を世に問う。
175 pages
First published May 1, 2002
About the author
Issei Sagawa
16 books66 followersIssei Sagawa was a murderer and cannibal turned best-selling author and Japanese media sensation.
He moved from Japan to Paris as a post-grad student to study literature at the renowned Sorbonne Academy. There he met his victim and classmate. He lured her to his apartment by telling her that he needed help with translating French poetry. Against warnings of her friends that described Sagawa as 'creepy' she decided to help him. It would be her last and most fatal mistake.
Sagawa later confessed to murdering and cannibalizing her. After only 15 months of incarceration, he was let free due to a legal loophole. He went back to Japan where he has enjoyed becoming a best selling author and a media sensation. He has been linked to eight other disappearances of women back in Paris.
Sagawa died of complications of pneumonia at the age of 73 on November 24, 2022.
He moved from Japan to Paris as a post-grad student to study literature at the renowned Sorbonne Academy. There he met his victim and classmate. He lured her to his apartment by telling her that he needed help with translating French poetry. Against warnings of her friends that described Sagawa as 'creepy' she decided to help him. It would be her last and most fatal mistake.
Sagawa later confessed to murdering and cannibalizing her. After only 15 months of incarceration, he was let free due to a legal loophole. He went back to Japan where he has enjoyed becoming a best selling author and a media sensation. He has been linked to eight other disappearances of women back in Paris.
Sagawa died of complications of pneumonia at the age of 73 on November 24, 2022.
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June 22, 2016I don't think so.
January 18, 2026
This is supposed to be a semi-autobiographical account of the incident, the first unfinished version coming only two years after the incident.
The work follows the trajectory of Issei’s crime, the narrative sprouting in an interview at the detainment prison, boiling into a treatment of the crime from a month before the incident to spine-chilling descriptions of the homicide, cannibalization, and necrophilia.
The treatment of his crime is much more humane and non-commerical in this piece, as compared to his later works such as 'Manga Sagawa-San.'
Deeply disturbing, I would recommend this to true crime and confessional lovers who want a less 'perverted' account of the incident that propelled Sagawa into a para-social status that tainted other tellings of the tale.
The work follows the trajectory of Issei’s crime, the narrative sprouting in an interview at the detainment prison, boiling into a treatment of the crime from a month before the incident to spine-chilling descriptions of the homicide, cannibalization, and necrophilia.
The treatment of his crime is much more humane and non-commerical in this piece, as compared to his later works such as 'Manga Sagawa-San.'
Deeply disturbing, I would recommend this to true crime and confessional lovers who want a less 'perverted' account of the incident that propelled Sagawa into a para-social status that tainted other tellings of the tale.
January 31, 2022
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