Suga Yuichi lived a dissolute private life, but he was a rare best-selling writer in history. He claimed that all his works were derived from personal experience.
After publishing a controversial murder novel, his literary stature reached unprecedented heights.
Later, Yuichi Suga died of cancer. He left one million yen and designated his daughter Asumi, who had been separated for many years, to be his funeral director. After Asumi suppressed her hatred for her father and held the funeral, she received a handwritten posthumous manuscript signed by her father, titled "Tattoo", which at first glance seemed like a memoir.
When he was young, Yong Yi was invisible at home because he had a genius younger brother. The strange thing is that the relationship between the two did not create any rift, but became more and more affectionate. In order to escape the suffocating situation, the younger brother came up with a surprising plan...
Reader comments
This book is amazing, truly amazing. Flip fiction and reality like two sides of a coin at any time, and play with readers like a smelly dog. Well worth a look.
Best in recent times!
The entire novel emphasizes that fiction erodes reality and blurs the line between fiction and reality.
If the brother is alive, then the whole story is a cold manipulation fable; if the brother is dead, then the whole book is a psychological drama of Yongyi's self-deception.
I prefer the latter, because the schizophrenic interpretation makes the character Yong Yi more tragic: he was not manipulated by his brother, but tortured by his own guilt and self-denial towards his brother, and ultimately destroyed his life with his own hands. But that doesn't seem to explain the last letter I sent to my daughter.
"When a writer can completely integrate with the novel, he can be called a literary giant."
Yong Yi is indeed "integrated with the novel" - not because he wrote those words, but because he lived those words.
It's a wonderful book. Putting aside some logical issues (for example, will Yong Yi really change his life completely because of his brother's opinion? Or, for example, the murder of his wife is so obvious in the novel, can the police really not find it out?), Overall I felt quite shocked after reading it.
I finished reading it in one go. In fact, I felt that this book was a bit more literary. It was not like a mystery novel or a suspense novel. It was more like writing about a group of people whose lives are wrapped up in nihilism. Kenji doesn't want his own life, and he doesn't want others to know about him. He doesn't want fame or fortune, he just wants to build a fictional kingdom that is popular among the public. Because Yongyi was belittled and compared since childhood, he has always felt that he is ordinary and has been looking for his own value. Being a puppet and the last literary giant is his real value. Although it is fake and does not belong to him, he still spent his whole life performing the script. Yongzi wants to be seen, she doesn't want stable happiness, she just wants to be seen in fictional novels, even if the script arranged for her is to be killed. Asumi wanted to leave traces of her own life, so she calmly followed in her father's footsteps.
How to live a worthwhile trip, I don't know. Even if you spend your entire life searching for the answer to the question of why you are alive, the only certainty in the universe is the future of death. When the line between reality and fiction becomes blurred, how you live or die seems to become irrelevant.
It's a very unique narrative technique. I was very impressed after reading this article. Whether Didi is alive or dead is ultimately a mystery. I prefer alive. I really like the description of the scene between the two brothers. It's good as a bedtime science fiction book.
(From what I've seen so far) My brother acted according to the personal novel written by his younger brother, which gave me the idea that maybe we could also write a personal novel about ourselves and then act according to the novel, although this sounds very strange. [Thinking][Thinking][Thinking][Thinking]
In the world of foreign markets, only Yongyi is fake.
The two brothers Yongyi and Kenji created what people call the last literary giants, and also made the trajectory of life sail into the embrace of the devil.
Every time I read a Japanese novel, I always feel a dark and uncomfortable feeling. The plot is very smooth, but my mind becomes increasingly unclear. Probably because I have read "Klein's Pot" and "The Long Afternoon", I don't feel as if my scalp is numb or frightened when I think about the plot twist in this book. Or is this the case for popular Japanese novels of this type now? ("Tattoo" has elements of "the blending of reality and fiction" in "The Klein Pot" and "the novelist's works coincide with reality" in "The Long Afternoon".)
At the end, I probably wanted to create a scary atmosphere - Kenji is not dead, not a second personality, and Yuichi's daughter Asumi was chosen to be the "last literary giant". However, there is no previous record of Asumi's love for literature and writing, but at the end she suddenly wanted to write about her past. It's suspenseful for suspense's sake, it feels cinematic, but it's not interesting. (It can also be said that "Tattoo" is Asumi's private novel hahaha)
Also, why is it translated as "tattoo" instead of "tattoo"? Is it because it coincides with the meaning of "the body of the writer" and "the writer himself"?
My favorite works always give me chills down the back. Is this last paragraph a preview of the next book? I really look forward to seeing a book with Asumi as the protagonist. What is her life like? Starting from the much-publicized author's daughter being bullied in school, what is life like when she is adopted? I'm looking forward to this book. It's such a good read. Thank you for discovering such a good story.
This book reminded me of the experiences of some people around me. Although the father in the book is bohemian, the complex emotions between him and his daughter are very real. I especially hate the role of the father, what he does brings a lot of pain to the family. However, I think this book also made me cherish my relatives and friends around me more. After all, the bond between family members is very precious. Overall, this is a very in-depth book and worth reading.
For the protagonist's parents:
Good news: after giving birth to two children, at least one is a genius.
Bad news: After giving birth to two children, at least one is seriously ill.
"The line between reality and fiction has long been blurred."
It's a bit creepy after reading it. The younger brother who fictionalizes reality and the elder brother who fictionalizes reality make people doubt the existence of everything. The symbiotic relationship between the two brothers makes them completely trust each other.
The word "symbiosis" that appears most often in the reviews of this book is that the relationship between the two people makes them seem to be one body, but that's it.
The perspective is what shocks me the most. What is a writer? Is it the temperament of a writer or the power of writing?
As for his ability to be a younger brother, he is not that neat and a bit stuck here. I like his open ending very much.
It's not as clear as Black Butler, but if you have to come up with something new, the author won't deny it.
The author himself doesn't know that, and what's the best thing about it? Why doesn't the author himself don't know, because
He is not a party involved at all. His source of information is the little card written by his brother about his own experience, but his brother
It turns illusion into reality. He lives according to the story conceived by his younger brother, so at the end, the older brother himself cannot tell the difference.
Did my brother really survive the planned incident, or was there no planning at all?
Because the younger brother wanted to change his life, he pretended that he slipped and jumped off a cliff and died, and then ran into the city. ,
My brother is here for a year, and then we will go to the city to meet up with him. This is his script. Then because of my brother's
After breaking up with his younger brother, he could no longer tell whether his younger brother was dead or not. No one except his younger brother could prove that this was the case.
There is a point, because the younger brother actually feels like he wants everyone's attention, so he is afraid that he will die.
The pain my mother experienced at that time, and because she wanted to control her brother, she asked her to kill him in the script.
His wife, because she wanted a child, made him indulge in happiness. Although his brother broke up again later, his brother broke up later.
Do you even exist? Then he may be the one who wants to kill his wife, and the attention is focused on him.
But my younger brother wanted me to pay attention to this point of view. It was my older brother who wanted to be independent, and then he would write his own novel and let himself realize it.
Reason, and then the younger brother was surprised. The two of them had an incomparable love, and this novel is about the two of them.
Learning model
or press speak
It's if I really wasn't in high school at that time
My brother-in-law is determined to be black
In fact, I had already shown some status back then because I wanted to take classes.
At that time, if I studied seriously, I felt that I actually had some skills. Brother said electricity
Even if he is beaten, he will look at it. And the excuse given by my brother was that after the death of my father at that time,
There was no expression at all, so I had to wait for a year. But if he leaves me, there will be
If not, then the following situation will not occur and he may have a happy family, but he
Then he even broke up with his brother Di later, which highlighted his and Di's talents, just like the author 1
It shows the difference between him and his brother. They exist as two independent people. It is because they act
So when we broke up later, we decided to die now because we wanted to decide later.
It is possible that he is not dead yet, that is. The author places different emphasis on them. Moreover, the author made me feel very involved. People like me who are obsessed with love are immersed in the story. When I get out of the story and sigh, I can only say: Go ahead, the author is really strong.
The sentence "Are you ready to be the last literary giant?" In "Tattoo" leaves a deep foreshadowing and makes readers thought-provoking. The story is narrated from the perspective of the daughter and then unfolds the writing story of the protagonist Yuichi and his younger brother Kenji, which seems both fictional and realistic. I wonder whether the younger brother Kenji is the writer or Yuichi? It is also puzzling and deeply doubtful whether his brother Kenji died. Regardless of who is the writer, the protagonist in the story is Yong Yi after all. He has been reduced to a character in his brother's fictional novels since he was 20 years old. He has followed his brother's escape plan and has this character like a tattoo. This character really feels absurd and realistic. I also admire him for writing such a novel, which is both novel and absurd. It is the only novel that I have read so far that is different from other types of novels. It is good to read, but I still wonder if it was the elder brother who felt guilty about his younger brother's death that led him to write such a novel. Writing a novel with his younger brother still alive, and being able to integrate himself with the ending of the fictional novel is amazing. He is worthy of being a "literary giant" of the generation!
Actually I think it's pretty good, but I don't understand why the score is so low.
"Are you ready to be the last literary giant?"
I haven't finished reading it, but I feel that the ending should be good. I have never seen similar writing techniques and ideas...
Born for novels, crazy for novels
It's about characters living in fiction and a life created to be executed, or it's like the mind's pretense of all pain. The truth and falsehood are blurred. It's a wonderful story. I like this nested structure very much.
The narrative technique is very special, and the twist at the end is unexpected!
Books within books, infinite reversals
God's reversal is so beautiful
What does bookend mean? Is the ghost writer trying to control Asuka's life again?
Worth a look, true and false, false and true
After getting through the first third of the novel, things start to get interesting in the middle of the novel, and the pace becomes faster and faster, making it impossible to stop reading.
It's okay, not particularly amazing. If you don't have any books to read, you can take a look.
What a novel narrative angle [flying kiss][flying kiss][flying kiss][flying kiss]
What is reality and what is illusion?
When you believe in illusions, illusions become reality
When you question reality, everything you experience is a fantasy worth noting.
Twists, twists and turns, even the ending is quite interesting.
Finally, it does reverse again and again.
But the middle part made me a little bored and speechless (maybe I don't understand the charm of this kind of literature)
The writing is beautiful, profound and powerful.
This book is amazing, truly amazing. Flip fiction and reality like two sides of a coin at any time, and play with readers like a smelly dog. Well worth a look.
Best in recent times! The entire novel emphasizes that fiction erodes reality and blurs the line between fiction and reality. If the brother is alive, then the whole story is a cold manipulation fable; if the brother is dead, then the whole book is a psychological drama of Yongyi's self-deception. I prefer the latter, because the schizophrenic interpretation makes the character Yong Yi more tragic: he was not manipulated by his brother, but tortured by his own guilt and self-denial towards his brother, and ultimately destroyed his life with his own hands. But that doesn't seem to explain the last letter I sent to my daughter. "When a writer can completely integrate with the novel, he can be called a literary giant." Yong Yi is indeed "integrated with the novel" - not because he wrote those words, but because he lived those words.
It's a wonderful book. Putting aside some logical issues (for example, will Yong Yi really change his life completely because of his brother's opinion? Or, for example, the murder of his wife is so obvious in the novel, can the police really not find it out?), Overall I felt quite shocked after reading it.
I finished reading it in one go. In fact, I felt that this book was a bit more literary. It was not like a mystery novel or a suspense novel. It was more like writing about a group of people whose lives are wrapped up in nihilism. Kenji doesn't want his own life, and he doesn't want others to know about him. He doesn't want fame or fortune, he just wants to build a fictional kingdom that is popular among the public. Because Yongyi was belittled and compared since childhood, he has always felt that he is ordinary and has been looking for his own value. Being a puppet and the last literary giant is his real value. Although it is fake and does not belong to him, he still spent his whole life performing the script. Yongzi wants to be seen, she doesn't want stable happiness, she just wants to be seen in fictional novels, even if the script arranged for her is to be killed. Asumi wanted to leave traces of her own life, so she calmly followed in her father's footsteps. How to live a worthwhile trip, I don't know. Even if you spend your entire life searching for the answer to the question of why you are alive, the only certainty in the universe is the future of death. When the line between reality and fiction becomes blurred, how you live or die seems to become irrelevant.
It's a very unique narrative technique. I was very impressed after reading this article. Whether Didi is alive or dead is ultimately a mystery. I prefer alive. I really like the description of the scene between the two brothers. It's good as a bedtime science fiction book.
(From what I've seen so far) My brother acted according to the personal novel written by his younger brother, which gave me the idea that maybe we could also write a personal novel about ourselves and then act according to the novel, although this sounds very strange. [Thinking][Thinking][Thinking][Thinking]
In the world of foreign markets, only Yongyi is fake. The two brothers Yongyi and Kenji created what people call the last literary giants, and also made the trajectory of life sail into the embrace of the devil. Every time I read a Japanese novel, I always feel a dark and uncomfortable feeling. The plot is very smooth, but my mind becomes increasingly unclear. Probably because I have read "Klein's Pot" and "The Long Afternoon", I don't feel as if my scalp is numb or frightened when I think about the plot twist in this book. Or is this the case for popular Japanese novels of this type now? ("Tattoo" has elements of "the blending of reality and fiction" in "The Klein Pot" and "the novelist's works coincide with reality" in "The Long Afternoon".) At the end, I probably wanted to create a scary atmosphere - Kenji is not dead, not a second personality, and Yuichi's daughter Asumi was chosen to be the "last literary giant". However, there is no previous record of Asumi's love for literature and writing, but at the end she suddenly wanted to write about her past. It's suspenseful for suspense's sake, it feels cinematic, but it's not interesting. (It can also be said that "Tattoo" is Asumi's private novel hahaha) Also, why is it translated as "tattoo" instead of "tattoo"? Is it because it coincides with the meaning of "the body of the writer" and "the writer himself"?
My favorite works always give me chills down the back. Is this last paragraph a preview of the next book? I really look forward to seeing a book with Asumi as the protagonist. What is her life like? Starting from the much-publicized author's daughter being bullied in school, what is life like when she is adopted? I'm looking forward to this book. It's such a good read. Thank you for discovering such a good story.
This book reminded me of the experiences of some people around me. Although the father in the book is bohemian, the complex emotions between him and his daughter are very real. I especially hate the role of the father, what he does brings a lot of pain to the family. However, I think this book also made me cherish my relatives and friends around me more. After all, the bond between family members is very precious. Overall, this is a very in-depth book and worth reading.
For the protagonist's parents: Good news: after giving birth to two children, at least one is a genius. Bad news: After giving birth to two children, at least one is seriously ill.
"The line between reality and fiction has long been blurred." It's a bit creepy after reading it. The younger brother who fictionalizes reality and the elder brother who fictionalizes reality make people doubt the existence of everything. The symbiotic relationship between the two brothers makes them completely trust each other. The word "symbiosis" that appears most often in the reviews of this book is that the relationship between the two people makes them seem to be one body, but that's it. The perspective is what shocks me the most. What is a writer? Is it the temperament of a writer or the power of writing?
As for his ability to be a younger brother, he is not that neat and a bit stuck here. I like his open ending very much. It's not as clear as Black Butler, but if you have to come up with something new, the author won't deny it. The author himself doesn't know that, and what's the best thing about it? Why doesn't the author himself don't know, because He is not a party involved at all. His source of information is the little card written by his brother about his own experience, but his brother It turns illusion into reality. He lives according to the story conceived by his younger brother, so at the end, the older brother himself cannot tell the difference. Did my brother really survive the planned incident, or was there no planning at all? Because the younger brother wanted to change his life, he pretended that he slipped and jumped off a cliff and died, and then ran into the city. , My brother is here for a year, and then we will go to the city to meet up with him. This is his script. Then because of my brother's After breaking up with his younger brother, he could no longer tell whether his younger brother was dead or not. No one except his younger brother could prove that this was the case. There is a point, because the younger brother actually feels like he wants everyone's attention, so he is afraid that he will die. The pain my mother experienced at that time, and because she wanted to control her brother, she asked her to kill him in the script. His wife, because she wanted a child, made him indulge in happiness. Although his brother broke up again later, his brother broke up later. Do you even exist? Then he may be the one who wants to kill his wife, and the attention is focused on him. But my younger brother wanted me to pay attention to this point of view. It was my older brother who wanted to be independent, and then he would write his own novel and let himself realize it. Reason, and then the younger brother was surprised. The two of them had an incomparable love, and this novel is about the two of them. Learning model or press speak It's if I really wasn't in high school at that time My brother-in-law is determined to be black In fact, I had already shown some status back then because I wanted to take classes. At that time, if I studied seriously, I felt that I actually had some skills. Brother said electricity Even if he is beaten, he will look at it. And the excuse given by my brother was that after the death of my father at that time, There was no expression at all, so I had to wait for a year. But if he leaves me, there will be If not, then the following situation will not occur and he may have a happy family, but he Then he even broke up with his brother Di later, which highlighted his and Di's talents, just like the author 1 It shows the difference between him and his brother. They exist as two independent people. It is because they act So when we broke up later, we decided to die now because we wanted to decide later. It is possible that he is not dead yet, that is. The author places different emphasis on them. Moreover, the author made me feel very involved. People like me who are obsessed with love are immersed in the story. When I get out of the story and sigh, I can only say: Go ahead, the author is really strong.
The sentence "Are you ready to be the last literary giant?" In "Tattoo" leaves a deep foreshadowing and makes readers thought-provoking. The story is narrated from the perspective of the daughter and then unfolds the writing story of the protagonist Yuichi and his younger brother Kenji, which seems both fictional and realistic. I wonder whether the younger brother Kenji is the writer or Yuichi? It is also puzzling and deeply doubtful whether his brother Kenji died. Regardless of who is the writer, the protagonist in the story is Yong Yi after all. He has been reduced to a character in his brother's fictional novels since he was 20 years old. He has followed his brother's escape plan and has this character like a tattoo. This character really feels absurd and realistic. I also admire him for writing such a novel, which is both novel and absurd. It is the only novel that I have read so far that is different from other types of novels. It is good to read, but I still wonder if it was the elder brother who felt guilty about his younger brother's death that led him to write such a novel. Writing a novel with his younger brother still alive, and being able to integrate himself with the ending of the fictional novel is amazing. He is worthy of being a "literary giant" of the generation!
Actually I think it's pretty good, but I don't understand why the score is so low.
"Are you ready to be the last literary giant?"
I haven't finished reading it, but I feel that the ending should be good. I have never seen similar writing techniques and ideas...
Born for novels, crazy for novels
It's about characters living in fiction and a life created to be executed, or it's like the mind's pretense of all pain. The truth and falsehood are blurred. It's a wonderful story. I like this nested structure very much.
The narrative technique is very special, and the twist at the end is unexpected!
Books within books, infinite reversals
God's reversal is so beautiful
What does bookend mean? Is the ghost writer trying to control Asuka's life again?
Worth a look, true and false, false and true
After getting through the first third of the novel, things start to get interesting in the middle of the novel, and the pace becomes faster and faster, making it impossible to stop reading.
It's okay, not particularly amazing. If you don't have any books to read, you can take a look.
What a novel narrative angle [flying kiss][flying kiss][flying kiss][flying kiss]
What is reality and what is illusion? When you believe in illusions, illusions become reality When you question reality, everything you experience is a fantasy worth noting.
Twists, twists and turns, even the ending is quite interesting.
Finally, it does reverse again and again. But the middle part made me a little bored and speechless (maybe I don't understand the charm of this kind of literature) The writing is beautiful, profound and powerful.
The book I will read a second time