Kirihito Osanai is a young doctor who's just been introduced to the Monmow disease, which transforms humans into dog-like beasts and kills them within a month of the metamorphosis. While studying the pathology of the disease Kirihito himself becomes an unknowing guinea pig for his hospital's research into it. Under the auspices of research, Kirihito is sent to a remote village in the mountains, where he contracts the Monmow disease himself, and through a series of misfortunes, becomes estranged from his beautiful fiancee, Izumi Yoshinaga (the daughter of his hospital's Director and Chief Physician), and his close friend and rival, Urabe.
As the disease begins to transform Kirihito's body physically, the sudden metamorphisis impacts his character. Kirihito soon begins to doubt the medical world and after much resistence breaks down to accept his new role as a monster and spiritual figure in the quaint rural village he now lives in. Whether he is able to come to terms with his new life, however, it is certain that society will see him very differently. Quickly it becomes certain that Kirihito's life will be continuous strife dictated by the hospital that once employed him and is now looking to attain international acclaim by revealing the secrets (albiet incorrect) of Monmow's Disease.
It quickly becomes the secret mission of Urabe and Yoshinaga to find Kirihito and uncover the conspiracy and mystery behind this medical phenomenon, though Urabe seems to have motives of his own as pertains to the beautiful fiancee. Urabe, however, that is able to link the Monmow disease directly to water that runs from the mountain village where Kirihito is trapped, and the two doctors will independently discover the truth about Monmow.
"Ode to Kirihito is moving, tender and engrossing. Also very, very odd." --Neil Gaiman, author of The Sandman and Anansi Boys
“Tezuka turns his comic book mastery to evil in this terrifying examination of moral decay. Fans of Japanese horror both new and old should not miss this shocking single volume that will completely change Tezuka’s American reputation as the Japanese Walt Disney. Brutal, depraved and savage, Kirihito will leave you panting like a beaten dog-man!” —Andrew D. Arnold, Time comics critic
這部作品的開篇就如同一個驟然拉開的帷幕,帶著一種古老的、近乎神諭般的重量感。作者似乎並不急於嚮讀者展示一個清晰的故事情節,而是沉浸於一種對環境和氛圍的精雕細琢之中。我花瞭相當長的時間纔適應這種敘事節奏,它不像當代小說那樣追求即時的滿足感,更像是在品味一壇需要時間醞釀的陳釀。那些關於地貌、氣候以及那些無名角色的簡短側寫,構建瞭一個既陌生又異常熟悉的世界觀。你能在字裏行間感受到一種深植於土地的宿命感,仿佛每一個微小的行動都承載著韆百年來積澱的文化重量。尤其讓我印象深刻的是作者對感官細節的捕捉能力,那些關於氣味、光綫和聲音的描述,細緻入微,幾乎能讓你觸摸到紙麵上的紋理。這使得閱讀過程變成瞭一種需要全身心投入的體驗,需要你放下對情節推進的期待,轉而欣賞那些如同精美雕刻般的語言結構。這種剋製的、近乎冥想式的寫作手法,無疑是這部作品最顯著的特徵之一,它挑戰瞭傳統敘事的邊界,將“沉浸”二字提升到瞭一個新的維度。
评分接下來的部分,敘事視角開始變得更加遊移不定,常常在宏大的曆史敘事和極其私密的內心獨白之間進行跳躍。這種手法初看起來有些令人睏惑,仿佛作者手裏拿著一把不斷切換焦點的放大鏡,時而聚焦於一個不起眼的小物件,時而又拉遠至整個文明的興衰。然而,正是這種不穩定的視角,賦予瞭故事一種碎片化的真實感。我開始意識到,作者可能並不在乎提供一個完整、綫性的故事藍圖,而是試圖捕捉“記憶”本身的工作方式——那些跳躍的、充滿情感投射的、被時間扭麯的片段。書中的某些段落,特彆是關於某個傢族世代相傳的秘密的描繪,那種含蓄的、通過物件和習慣來傳遞的傳承感,處理得極其高明。它沒有用冗長的對白來解釋一切,而是讓讀者自己去拼湊齣事件之間的隱晦聯係。這要求讀者必須保持高度的警覺和解讀的意願,每一次“頓悟”都像是自己發現瞭一個隱藏的寶藏,帶來的滿足感是無法言喻的,也遠超那些直接告知結果的敘事方式。
评分我注意到,貫穿全書的象徵體係極其復雜,但又非常內斂,並未以喧賓奪主的方式齣現。它不是那種簡單對應“光明與黑暗”的二元對立,而是建立瞭一套高度個人化、甚至帶有某種神秘學色彩的符號語言。那些反復齣現的意象,比如某種特定顔色的光綫、一種特定的天氣現象,或者某種罕見的植物,它們在不同的章節中被賦予瞭微妙的、不斷演變的情感內涵。解讀這些符號成瞭一種令人著迷的遊戲,它要求讀者必須對文本保持持續的關注,因為前一章看似無關緊要的細節,可能在後幾章中突然被點亮,揭示齣更深層次的寓意。這部作品的價值,不僅僅在於其講述瞭一個怎樣的故事,更在於它提供瞭一種觀察世界、理解存在的全新濾鏡。它迫使我跳齣日常思維的舒適區,去思考那些關於意義、存在和遺忘的終極問題,其思想的深度和廣度,足以在讀完很久之後依然在我腦海中迴響,久久不散。
评分從純粹的文學技巧角度來看,作者對句法的運用達到瞭齣神入化的地步。那些長句的鋪陳,宛如精緻的巴洛剋式樂章,層層疊疊,充滿瞭復雜的從句和精妙的修飾語,它們流動起來時,有一種幾乎令人窒息的美感。然而,這種對形式的極緻追求,也帶來瞭一定的閱讀挑戰。有那麼幾章,我不得不放慢速度,甚至需要藉助筆記本記錄下關鍵的人物關係和時間綫索,以確保沒有迷失在語言的迷宮中。但一旦你掌握瞭作者的韻律,你會發現每一個詞的選擇都是經過深思熟慮的,它們不僅僅是語義的載體,更是情感的重量單位。特彆是當敘事從外部世界的描寫突然轉嚮內心深處的掙紮時,語言風格的轉換幾乎是無縫的,從宏大的史詩腔調瞬間過渡到私密、近乎耳語的傾訴,這種張力令人嘆服。這無疑是一部需要反復研讀,纔能完全領略其結構之精妙的作品。
评分這部作品的魅力,很大程度上來源於其對“失落”這一主題的深刻探討。它不是那種直白地哀悼過去的美好,而是在描繪一種持續的、滲透到日常肌理中的“缺失感”。你會感覺到,這個故事背景下的每個人物,似乎都在努力彌補著某種結構性的空洞,無論是通過繁復的儀式、執著的日常瑣事,還是對某種早已消逝的技藝的固守。人物的對話往往充滿言外之意,許多重要的信息是通過“沒有說齣口的話”來傳達的。這種文學上的“留白”,使得人物的內心世界顯得異常豐厚和復雜。我尤其欣賞作者在處理人際關係時的那種審慎和疏離感,角色之間的情感連接往往是脆弱的、易碎的,但也因此顯得更加珍貴。閱讀過程中,我數次停下來,反思自己生活中那些被忽略的、被時間衝淡的連接,這本書像一麵鏡子,照見瞭我們這個時代對“永恒連接”的渴望與無力。
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