The Manual of Detection
『探偵術マニュアル』は、ジェデダイア・ベリーによる幻想味のある探偵小説です。奇妙な都市と探偵組織を舞台に、失踪事件が記憶と物語の迷宮へ広がっていきます。
作品情報
探偵小説の約束事をずらしながら、夢のような都市の謎へ読者を導く長編です。
原題 The Manual of Detection。探偵社の下級事務員が思いがけず事件の中心に押し出され、現実と夢の境界が崩れていく物語です。ハメット賞受賞作として、ノワールの形式とファンタジー的な発想を組み合わせています。
レビュー要約
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古典的な探偵小説への愛着と、夢の論理で進む奇妙さを楽しむ反応が多い作品です。謎解きよりも世界観の濃さを重視する読者に強く響きます。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Penguin Press HC, The
- 発売日
- 2009-02-19
- ページ数
- 288ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.95 x 2.54 x 23.52 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781594202117
- ISBN-10
- 1594202117
- 価格
- 1365 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery
Unexpectedly promoted to detective when his predecessor goes missing and a supervisor is killed, agency clerk Charles Unwin struggles with inexperience, nerves, and a perpetually sleepy assistant during a case in which he encounters bizarre clues and is framed for murder. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
Jedediah Berry holds an M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has been published in Best New American Voices 2008 (his story was described by Kirkus Reviews as a Âmordant, gripping fantasyÂ) as well as in literary magazines and online fiction sites. By day, he is an assistant editor at Small Beer Press in Easthampton, Massachusetts.
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Mesmerising, sometimes baffling, at moments superb
This is a fine book, mesmerising, sometimes baffling, at moments superb. It's brave and different, with enough of the noir to make it clearly a detective story but one that stands apart from others. It has a plot and a resolution. Within lies every sort of strangeness, a boundless unknown, a recognition that the forces of both law and chaos are necessary and yet both shadows. It's about clocks and filing and a man's world turned inside out by seeing a woman in a plaid coat on a platform. Does that make sense? It shouldn't. There's no way to summarise what happens here. And that is the relief that it affords. That's its pleasure. I can't recommend it highly enough. It proves that novels do not have all to be the same
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A post-modernist take on the detective novel
This novels take on the post-modernist style is beginning to feel a bit dated, as if the author wanted to imitated Conan Doyle but was afraid to be too much like that author. It is entertaining, though somewhat self conscious of it.
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For both mystery and fantasy fans
An outstanding novel. Fantasy, detection and mystery rolled in to one!
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a twisty journey through the author's imagination
This story was a thrill to read. The writing style and story had me reading this book in a short amoy nt of days. Well done.
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interesting read
Being insane or very open minded is a prerequisite of enjoying this book. But it grabbed me from the first page and truly kept me involved until the end. I will seek out Jedediah Berry again
関連する文学賞
- ハメット賞 第19回（2009年） ・受賞