Biography
Mystic Edgar Allan software possessed an inexhaustible fantasy and sophisticated syllable - ingredients, indispensable in creating successful literature. His works are appreciated (and continue to appreciate) around the world, even in the Zapan's oborced iron curtain. For example, Taro Hirai in the 20th century was so inspired by the work of the software that he took the alias Edogava Rambo. Imitating to his idol, he gave the development of a detective in his native country, and his stories are included in the Gold Collection of Mystics.Childhood and youth
Taro Keira was born on October 21, 1894 in the Japanese city of Nabari in the family of a small official. About the early period of his biography knows a little, the path of becoming a writer is clearly tracked only from student times.
Since 1912, Hirai studied finances at Vasae University, one of two prestigious universities in Japan. After receiving in the 1916th, the economist diploma was interrupted by random earnings - from editing newspapers before creating caricatures for magazines, from the noodle seller to the consultant in the bookstore.
Anyway, Hirai surrounded the creative atmosphere. He read a lot, and in 1923 he took the first attempt to create a literary masterpiece.
Books
The debut story of the "Copper coin" of Kirai was under the pseudonym Edogava Rampo. If it is quickly pronounced, then you can catch almost identical similarity with the name of the degree of the world detective Edgar Allan by. This is not an accident: the Japanese guarded the works of software and dreamed of becoming at least a quarter as successful. Fate turned out to be favorable: Edogawa Rampo had to play in Japan the same role as Edgar Allanova in West.
It is mistaken to say that Rampo is a detective detective in Japan, but he became the first one who has tied the climax of history with Eastern culture. In the first stories, Rampo followed a single scenario: described, it would seem unresolved crimes, and followed - logical techniques, thanks to which the random was found. By the 1930s, Rampo became the voice of Japanese mysticism.
Two years after the start of the second Sino-Japanese war, Edogawa Rampo first got under censorship: the state banned to replicate the "Caterpillar" story (1929). It tells about the veteran, which war turned into a four-friendly monster, more similar to the caterpillar.
In the post-war period, Rampo dedicated himself to writing theoretical work on a detective. He spoke for the purity of the genre, calling for not expanding the framework of a traditional detective to adventure and science fiction works. Much forces went to the creation of the writers of the detective genre.
In an attempt to support beginner fiction in 1954, Edogava Rambo established a literary award for the best detective work. She is awarded now. The prize is 10 million yen and the right to be printed in the largest Japanese Publishing House Kodansha.
Personal life
The mystery was accompanied not only by Rampo's stories, but his personal life: it is not known whether the writer consisted in relations, and most importantly - what sexual orientation he adhered to.
Rampo was a friend - the historian of Junjiti Ivan, who spent his life in the studies of homosexuality in Japan. During the 1930s, they conducted a joking competition: who will find more books about love between two men. Ramboz searched in the West, and Ivana - in Japan. The latter died in 1945, published only part of the collected bibliography. Rambo continued a friend's work.
Death
In the last years of Edogawa Rampo, suffered because of health problems, including atherosclerosis and Parkinson's disease, smoked a lot (the rare photos of the writer do without a cigarette in hand).He died on July 28, 1965 at home, the cause of death is hemorrhage into the brain. The grave is located in the city of foot, not far from Tokyo.
Bibliography
- 1923 - "Copper Coin"
- 1924 - "Gemini"
- 1925 - "Red Room"
- 1925 - "Man-Chair"
- 1926 - "Hell Mirrors"
- 1926 - "Caterpillar"
- 1929 - "Insect"
- 1932 - "Demon"
- 1950 - "Rock"
- 1955 - "Bombader"