It was not until I finished reading Eye in the Mirror that I found that the hole 1 cm square under the cover title was not a color block, but was carved. Although I am not a professional book editor, I still know the difficulty of adding a small color block to the cover and carving a small hole. As for the publisher of this book, Wuhan University Press, why give up the easy and seek the difficult? Because I just finished reading the novel of the same name, I think the answer I gave should not be too far from the point. Publishers hope to use the short stories of the famous Japanese writer Horizo Minzhi to open a small hole in our inherent understanding of this novel, even if it is only 65,438+0 cm square, just like Horizo Minzhi opened a 65,438+0 cm square hole in his skull for his characters in Eye in the Mirror.

Hori Minxing invented the "I" family, and made generations born in a hole one centimeter square in the same position on the top of their heads, making them "encounter a traffic accident once in their lives, feel a severe headache, the intracranial pressure soared, and an unknown memory in the hole suddenly ushered in its critical state", so as to predict that at some point in the future, human beings will be able to resurrect the past and connect with the coming new world. The Japanese writer who returned to France must be familiar with the French science fiction writer jules verne. He must not think that all writers' fantasies are fantasies without scientific basis. Therefore, when Hori Minxing expresses his imagination of the future through Under the Mirror, he is firm and credible. In fact, didn't the scientific madman Musk announce that he had solved the brain-computer interface technology?

Horijiang Junzhi

Nevertheless, the eyes under the mirror are not my favorite one. Among the 18 novels by Horijiang Minxing, I like Orchard, Black Lily and Over there best. In these three novels, the author "revived" three lost times with the disappointment of falling snow without trace.

I am a salesman in a wedding furniture and bedding company. Just when the sales performance entered a benign rising period, the car accident made me lose my ability to work. Time flies, my body is slowly recovering, but my mental state is always depressed. My sister is in a state of anxiety. Once in a while, after seeing an advertisement for walking the dog temporarily, my sister strongly encouraged me to try it. After getting this temporary job, "I" went to Anshui's house the next day to help them walk their dogs ... for the "orchard".

On the third anniversary of my sister's mother-in-law's death, my brother-in-law returned to his hometown with his family. Because of work, my brother-in-law came back first, and my sister who stayed in the country for a few more days had to take the children home alone. My sister, who had to hold the baby and carry the luggage, called her sister for help in tears. There is still some afterglow of the sunset in the twilight. My sister chose to believe the weather forecast and took two disposable plastic umbrellas out to pick up my sister and niece ... for the black lily.

Because he likes to collect ancient books about the history and anecdotes of the town, Hikojiro's father became an amateur expert in local chronicles of the town. As a reporter of the local newspaper, "I" am very willing to listen to Hikojiro's father. In winter, "I" followed Hikojiro's father to visit the temple, and then went home with Hikojiro's father. As soon as I entered the room, a fragrance came to my face, and Aunt Shizuko had set a warm pot on the table. I took a plate of salmon, radish and burdock from the warm pot that Aunt Shizuko handed me. "I" looked at Aunt Shizuko and "turned into a young mother with smooth and shiny skin". Where's Uncle Hikojiro? "Like a little fox staring at his mother, staring all the time, ignoring the taste", this is for that side.

Readers who haven't seen it under the mirror will probably think that my story outline hides the key plot of the novel. For example, after "I" walked the dog for the Anshui couple, there were entanglements and even conflicts between them. For example, "I" met an accident on the way to pick up my sister or the state of the other party after receiving my sister surprised "I"; For example, Aunt Shizuko is really an extraordinary alien from different places, just like the strange world shown in another novel entitled "ハントヘン". What I want to emphasize is "just like a little fox staring at his mother, staring all the time", which is the closing sentence of "over there" and the boiling point of "over there", so my overview is not hidden. As for whether I have hidden the important plot of orchard and black lily, take black lily as an example. I took two disposable plastic umbrellas to pick up my sister, because I just bought a folding umbrella and left it on the bus. After receiving my sister, my sister took out a black nail wrapped in a napkin from her bag. My sister told me that it was picked up from my mother-in-law's bones and given to my daughter when she grew up. At that time, my sister's mother-in-law broke herself to protect her granddaughter's painting and nailed her broken calf. It takes time for children to grow up. It's not the way to wrap your nails in a napkin. What shall we do? I took out the cover of my lost folding umbrella from my bag. "I put it on the table and let go of my hand. The thin black umbrella is like a black lily, slowly blooming. " At the end of "Black Lily", Hori Minxing skillfully gave the image of black lily with black nails. Although meaningful, artistic conception, but such a short article is a novel, you can judge it is prose after reading it! What about the orchard? Although the latter is much longer than the former, I am really unconvinced that Orchard is a novel. Take an old couple's two dogs out for a walk. "I" met a carpenter who was working on the road, picked up children's shoes, and thought of two stories about summer oranges told by friends, explaining why the old couple in Anshui wanted someone to walk their dogs ... According to "I"' s road map, it was difficult to read them carefully. Generally speaking, we think that novels should have characters, story lines, typical environments and other elements.

However, Japanese literary circles unanimously believe that Horijiang Minxing's Under the Mirror is a collection of short stories. Akutagawa Award, Yomiuri Shimbun Award, Mishima Yukio Award, Tanizaki Junichiro Award, Kawabata Yasunari Award and other awards were all awarded to the novelist Horijiang Minzhi.

Since it is possible to write novels such as Horizo Minzhi, is it an idea for Wuhan University Press to introduce the works of Japanese writers whose readers are completely unfamiliar in China and ask Mr. Lu Qiushi, a translator who is famous for his elegant translation, to translate Horizo Minzhi's first simplified Chinese novel collection? Extradition us to a richer literary world with Horie's works.