眩暈

御手洗潔 #8

by Sōji Shimada, 島田莊司, 董炯明 (Translator)

『占星術殺人魔法』捲土重來！御手洗潔面臨最大的挑戰！

　　通往秘密世界的電梯、肢解後再度復活的屍體......
　　在如惡夢般的眩暈背後，難道是惡意的殺人詭計？！

　　占星師御手洗潔偶然從東大教授古井手中得到了一本神秘手記，手記中記載著作者三崎陶太令人匪夷所思的經歷：

　　九年前在鎌倉稻村崎的公寓發生了一起強盜殺人事件，當時倖存的陶太在逃出求援時，竟發現他所居住的世界已完全變了樣，不但太陽黯淡凋萎，電車、建築消失破敗，甚至連居民都變成了獸頭人身的怪物！

　　受到極大驚嚇的陶太，在恍惚中返回公寓後，決定模仿曾經轟動全日本的『占星術殺人魔法』，將公寓內遇害的一男一女兩具屍體，肢解重組成上女下男的『雌雄同體人』！彷彿鬼迷心竅般，當陶太喃喃唸出復活咒文之時，雌雄同體人竟然真的死而復生了......

　　這本手記的內容，究竟純粹只是精神病患筆下的夢囈，還是一樁經過精心策劃的預謀殺人詭計？手記作者三崎陶太又是否真有其人？重重謎團觸動了御手洗潔的推理神經，讓他決定挑戰這起超乎想像的神秘事件！

Genres: Mystery

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Japan language profile here 島田 荘司
Russian language profile here Содзи Симада

Reviews

[Mizuki · Rating 5 out of 5]

Edited@14/11/2015: Re-reading Memai (translation: Dizziness) by Soji Shimada.

I had read this book long ago and after this re-reading I still find the story of Memai spellbinding and the plot twists clever and the murderer's motivation well explained and convincing, it is among Mr. Shimada's finest novels.

The author Soji Shimada, aka King Of Dismemberment in the realm of Japanese crime/detective novels, brings us yet another bewildering tale: the detective and his friend received a strange diary belonged to a disable young man, who lived alone in a seaside apartment provided by his movie star father, said father sent his disable son a beautiful female caretaker to look after him. Then one day, a masked robber broke into the apartment, the female caretaker and a visiting man were killed right before the young man's eyes, the young man ran out calling for help only to find outside of the apartment building, The End of the World had already arrived. Then in order to revive the deads, the young man cut the bodies in half and rearranged them to a half-male half-female Perfect Being, and then...the reviving ritual worked out and the Being opened his/her eyes?

So did the disable young man go mad and dream these all up? Or something deeper had gone on? You will have to find out for yourself.

Here're the few things I like about this book:

(1) The author came up with the most impossible situations (e.g. people turn into monsters, The End Of the World, the existence of an nonexistent 4th Floor, the Perfect Being etc) and manged to explain most of them logically and intelligently.

(2) I like how the murder mystery is solved and explained in the end.

(3) The atmosphere is nightmarish.

(4) The story is economically and neatly written, it's a fast read.

Last but not least, the 'reviving spell' in this book is a direct copy of the one in a H P. Lovecraft's short story. lol

[Le · Rating 4 out of 5]

非常经典，也非常喜欢的岛田庄司模式，对于一段复杂无序的呓语往往能给出结构清晰的解答，御手洗君真有你的！

[Eugi · Rating 2 out of 5]

7. "Токийская головоломка by Sōji Shimada

genres: detective mystery, thriller Japan
ranking: Meh, I Finished It! I stuck it out, but it wasn’t exactly fun. 3/10

the first line:
"There is hell all around me. In the water, in the air, in the milk, in the rice, in the sweets, in the soap... Everywhere."

notes:
no comments, this is just not my author, his style annoys me, I neither sympathise with no care for the characters; the cases seem obnoxious and overcomplicated for nothing

[s · Rating 4 out of 5]

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#眩暈 #御手洗潔シリーズ #島田荘司 さん #読了

御手洗潔と石岡くんのコンビがいい。専門的な話になるところ(教授と御手洗の会話とか)は全く意味がわからず、え、、これは世間でいう「常識」なのだろうか、みんなこれわかってるんだろうか？と不安になって来る頃に石岡くんのふつうの人(より少しのほほんとしてると思うけど)っぷりが出てきて、ほっとする。何よりその描写が好き。
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私には、まるきり一行も理解できなかったから、紅茶を淹れ直すために立った。
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長々とした、難解な教授の話がいっ時やんだ。私は、聞いていて意味が十分の一も解らなかった。
石岡くんを笑えない立場だけどクスッとしてしまう。

[αcolon · Rating 4 out of 5]

谜题、故事展开、氛围都非常喜欢的一本，从游戏之心开始的故事，线索给得大方，于是谜题的提出和解答从头到尾都贯穿的很好，又玄又被他们说服了，非常有趣。你们的《占星术》已经成了别人的“儿童读物”，真是感慨。给这本打星的时候发现自己才给了《斜屋》4星？现在的我明明觉得对斜屋挺有好感来着，那就把五星留给更能震撼我的书，这本也打平四星好了。

[Riemann Lee · Rating 2 out of 5]

書中的犯罪手法的設計和想象仍然相當大膽，且不會像《黑暗坡食人樹》那樣浮誇。可惜的是《眩暈》作為島田莊司轉變風格後的前期作品，敘事的手法還有點略為粗疏，明明是如此簡單的詭計，島田莊司卻用了相當故弄玄虛的方式去令讀者感到暈頭轉向（某程度上算是呼應書名？）。

根據島田莊司的講法，新本格派推理應該要將現代科技融入到故事和詭計裡面，但《眩暈》裡對環境汙染和遺傳病的描寫也未免太過於literal了，幾乎好幾章都像是直接把wikipedia直接貼上。