FREE THE EDOGAWA RAMPO READER PDF Rampo Edogawa,Seth Jacobowitz,Takayuki Tatsumi | 292 pages | 30 Dec 2008 | Kurodahan Press | 9784902075250 | English | [S.l], Japan The Edogawa Rampo Reader by Edogawa Rampo | LibraryThing Ranpo was an admirer of Western mystery writers, and especially of Edgar Allan Poe. His pen name is a rendering of Poe's name. The family moved to what is now Kameyama, Mieand from there to The Edogawa Rampo Reader when he was age two. He studied economics at Waseda University starting in After graduating in with a degree in economics he worked a series of odd jobs, including newspaper editing, drawing cartoons for magazine publications, selling soba noodles as a street vendor, and working in a used bookstore. The story appeared in the magazine Shin Seinena popular magazine written largely for an adolescent audience. Chestertonbut this was the first time the magazine published a major piece of mystery fiction by a Japanese author. Some, such as James B. Over the course of the next several years, Edogawa went on to write a number of other stories that focus on crimes and the processes involved in solving them. Among these stories are a number of stories that are now considered classics of early 20th-century Japanese popular literature: "The Case of the Murder on D. Although many of his first stories were primarily about sleuthing and the processes used in solving seemingly insolvable crimes, during the s, he began to turn increasingly to stories that involved a combination of sensibilities often called " ero guro nansensu ", from the three words "eroticism, grotesquerie, and the nonsensical". The presence of these sensibilities The Edogawa Rampo Reader him sell his stories to the public, which was The Edogawa Rampo Reader eager to read his work. By the s, Edogawa was writing regularly for a number of major public journals of popular literature, and he had emerged as the foremost voice of Japanese mystery fiction. A number of these novels were subsequently made into films. These works were wildly popular and are still read by many young Japanese readers, much like the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew mysteries are popular mysteries for adolescents in the English-speaking world. Censors banned the story, apparently believing that the story would detract from the current war effort. This came as a blow to Ranpo, who relied on royalties The Edogawa Rampo Reader reprints for income. Over the course of World War IIespecially during the full-fledged war between Japan and the US that began after inEdogawa was active in his local neighborhood organizationand he wrote a number of stories about young The Edogawa Rampo Reader and sleuths that might be seen as in line with the war effort, but he wrote most of these under different pseudonyms The Edogawa Rampo Reader if to disassociate them with his legacy. In Februaryhis family was evacuated from their home in IkebukuroTokyo to Fukushima in northern Japan. Edogawa remained until June, when he was suffering from malnutrition. Much of Ikebukuro was destroyed in Allied air raids and the subsequent fires that broke out in the city, but miraculously, the thick, earthen-walled warehouse which he used as his studio was spared, and still stands to this day beside the campus of Rikkyo University. The Edogawa Rampo Reader the postwar period, Edogawa dedicated a The Edogawa Rampo Reader deal of energy to promoting mystery fiction, both in terms of the understanding of its history and encouraging the production of new mystery fiction. In addition, he wrote a large number of articles about the history of Japanese, European, and American mystery fiction. Many of these essays were published in book form. In the s, he and a bilingual translator collaborated for five years on a translation of Edogawa's works into English, published as Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Tuttle. Since the translator could speak but not read Japanese, and Edogawa could read but not write English, the translation was done aurally, with Edogawa reading each sentence aloud, then checking the written English. Another of his interests, especially during the late s and s, was The Edogawa Rampo Reader attention to the work of his dear friend Jun'ichi Iwata —an anthropologist who had spent many years researching the history of homosexuality in Japan. During the s, Edogawa and Iwata had engaged in a light-hearted competition to see who could find the most books about erotic desire between men. Edogawa dedicated himself to finding books published in the West and Iwata dedicated himself to finding books having to do with Japan. Iwata died inwith only part of his work published, so Edogawa worked to have the remaining work on queer historiography published. In the postwar period, a large number of Edogawa's books were made into films. The interest in using Edogawa's literature as a departure point for creating films has continued well after his death. Edogawa, who suffered from a variety of health issues, including atherosclerosis and Parkinson's diseasedied from a cerebral hemorrhage at his home in His grave is at The Edogawa Rampo Reader Tama Cemetery in Fuchunear Tokyo. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In this Japanese namethe family name is Hirai. This article includes a list of general referencesbut it remains largely unverified The Edogawa Rampo Reader it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve The Edogawa Rampo Reader article by introducing more precise citations. October Learn how and when to remove this template message. Main article: Kogoro Akechi. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. 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Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Takayuki Tatsumi Foreword. Seth Jacobowitz Translator. Edogawa Rampo pseudonym of Hirai Taro, is the acknowledged grand master The Edogawa Rampo Reader Japan's golden age of crime and mystery fiction. He is also a major writer in the tradition of Japanese Modernism, and exerts a massive influence on the popular and literary culture of today's Japan. The Edogawa Rampo Reader presents a selection of outstanding examples of his short ficti Edogawa Rampo pseudonym of Hirai Taro, is the acknowledged grand master of Japan's golden age of crime and mystery fiction. The Edogawa Rampo Reader presents a selection of outstanding examples of his short fiction, and a selection of his non-fiction prose. 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Start your review of The Edogawa Rampo Reader. Jul 04, DeAnna Knippling rated it it was amazing. A collection of fiction and essays from the Japanese Edgar Allen Poe. The erotic, the mysterious, the grotesque! Each story is weirder and more clever than the last. The essays are insightful about what makes for a good mystery, or a creepy tale, or even what makes us love words themselves. Feb 10, Philipp rated it really liked it Shelves: japanshort-storiesessaysfiction. Edogawa Rampo is one of the most famous Japanese detective fiction writers, with huge debts to Doyle and Poe The Edogawa Rampo Reader Edogawa Rampo a few times the Japanese way and you'll find that he named himself Edgar Allan Poe. This Reader collects a few short stories without the famous Caterpillar! Sexuality, taboo, and rebellion are common themes: Human beings are complex creatures. From the moment we're born, we are endowed with certain anti-social traits. It is taboo to act on these desires. Yet taboos are essential for human beings. Or rather, I should say it is the very need for taboos in the first place that proves human beings have an innate tendency to rebel against society. The so-called instinct for crime is another name for it. The essays are all over the place, but interesting - some are very impressionistic, it's quaint nowadays how terrified Rampo was of the moving picture, some essays are focused on the 'tricks' a detective fiction writer uses, and I'm a bit sad that his An Itemized Catalog of Tricks hasn't been translated to English here's Google Translate with the list of tricks from the Japanese Wikipedia.