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The cold machine in Wu Liqi's mind is complex and precise. This is a murder case without any evidence... and all possible witnesses are lost at the same time. Memory, Wu Liqi turned this murder case, with clues of the truth scattered on the streets of the city, into a perfect secret room incident: the entire city ignored the reality that the protagonist had experienced
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"I don't have So good...you know what...in the end I didn't feel like I was that good," is what Cornell Woolrich said to his agent.
If you have read "Phantom Woman", a novel that has not been translated into Chinese in 76 years, you will not believe that Wu Liqi actually said this, especially when Wu Liqi was in trouble. Frustrating words to say. This is what he said when he was nearing the end of his life, and it was a coffin-breaking sigh. But while the book "Phantom Woman" can bring you a roller coaster of excitement and pleasure, the author's self-deprecating confession is a mystery that cannot be solved at all.
"Phantom Woman" is not like the gentle and even a little timid Woolrich herself. She is tough, cold and merciless: a man casually goes to the hotel to get rid of the boredom after a quarrel with his wife who is on the verge of divorce. He picked a woman at the bar to drink, took a taxi, ate, watched a singing performance, and then returned home, only to find that the wife he had quarreled with a few hours ago had died, with his favorite tie wrapped around her neck. And when he was angry and sad, he led the criminal police to find the woman that night as an alibi. The bar counter, the waiter, and the taxi driver were all strangers who should have seen him appear with the woman, but no one remembered or testified that he had accompanied him with her. As a result, he was sentenced to death and could only wait desperately for the arrival of death.
The cold machine in Wu Liqi's mind is complex and precise. This is a murder case with no evidence...but all the possible witnesses have lost their memory at the same time. Wu Liqi let clues to the truth about this murder case spread on the streets of the city. , turned into a perfect secret room incident: the entire city ignored the reality that the protagonist had experienced, and no matter how hard the readers went, they could not escape from this city composed of "don't know", "never seen it", and "forgot". "In the secret room composed of ". In fact, "Phantom Woman" is not like a murder case - the deceased is not even the focus. It is more like the popular escape room game: only the protagonist can find the mysterious woman who only spent one night to escape from this murder case. A secret room where the ultimate punishment is death.
But don’t forget that "Phantom Woman" was a novel published 76 years ago. Many mediocre works of the same period have long been lost in time, and even a few masterpieces now seem a bit out of date. What's more, this desperate story of "no one believes in me" has been transformed or deconstructed countless times over the past seventy years. Don’t forget the psychological thriller movies that were common in Hollywood in the 1990s. They love to attribute the answer to this kind of story to mental illness caused by congenital inheritance or acquired stress, and finally tell the audience who are eager for the answer simply and crudely: He Whether it was a madman, a schizophrenic, or a guy whose sanity was overwhelmed by inner guilt, he was the one who killed the person, he just didn't know it.
But this is what makes "Phantom Woman" tough, cold, and merciless. The reason is not because it is a hard-line novel about society, it is not one. Although Woolwich is often classified as a follower of Hammett or Chandler style, "Phantom Woman" is not a tough guy novel that focuses on the coldness of the human heart and the ruthlessness of society. The book does not intend to create a charming detective character, nor does it depict The fun of the luxurious and frivolous nightlife in the interwar period of the 1940s came entirely from chasing the murderer - finding the mysterious woman who even the readers may not believe exists. From this perspective, which only focuses on solving puzzles, "Phantom Woman" should be placed on the bookshelf of traditional reasoning. But then again, in fact, readers have almost no room for their own reasoning. Although Woolrich is leisurely laying down clues one by one, he has no intention of giving the reader any advantage.
To be honest, "Phantom Woman" is more like a roller coaster. It is a purely entertainment novel, because the obvious clues in the book are like spider silk that can escape death, but when you When you grasp it firmly, and you are absolutely sure and certain that this is the thread that can find the truth, Wurich will cut it off immediately, forcefully, coldly, and without mercy, making you fall from full of hope back to the unfathomable. In the black hole - this kind of blow that is lost and lost again and again, just like a roller coaster rolling up and down continuously, in the end you just want to give up thinking, raise your hands, and choose to fully enjoy the pleasure of being tossed around.
I can't tell you the real answer to "Phantom Woman". It is a wonderful reversal ending, and Wurich has to wait until the last few pages are left before he is willing to give up playing with you. But I can tell you why Wu Liqi, who wrote such a powerful novel, said those discouraging words before he died. This is what he said in response to a letter from a fan: "I'm glad you like The Phantom Woman...but I can't accept your praise. The man who wrote this novel is dead a long, long time ago. He's dead." For a long, long time."
Wu Liqi, who was so strict with himself that outsiders could hardly imagine, ultimately did not consider himself a great writer throughout his life, but perhaps it was such a rigorous and almost masochistic soul that could create such a perfect work. Entertainment stories. Or maybe, as he said, a part of Woolwich has died with the release of "Phantom Woman": Woolwich may be Faust alive, because this great novelist is willing to exchange his precious soul for a watertight house. 's secret room.
This book was published by Taiwan Publishing House
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in November 2018
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