Rick biography

The novel “House with the Blue Room” by Rick Onda, in the city in the respectable house of Dr. Aosawa during the festival dedicated to the hostile of the owner of the house and his mother’s flying, is a monstrous murder in their brutality: all family members and their guests are poisoned by cyanide added to the drinks delivered under the guise of “gift” - Sake for adults and juices for children.

Everywhere in the terrible agony people writhed. At first we did not understand what was happening, did not understand what they suffer. It might seem that everyone moves in a strange festive dance. There was vomiting everywhere, there was a sour smell in the air, the stench enveloped everything up to the entrance to the house. ” The only survivor is the twelve -year -old Hisako, which completely lost his vision as a result of an accident.

11 years after the murders, and the remaining not open, several people associated with them die: mysterious death as a result of arson, two suicide, an unexpected heart attack. One of the suicides is a courier in a yellow cloak-gathering who delivered poisoned drinks for a holiday, but the majority, including the police, consider him only an innocent performer of someone’s evil will.

After another 10 years, Makiko Saiga, in childhood, who was a neighbor of the Aosava family and who visited the crime scene, writes the book “Forgotten Festival”, which instantly becomes a bestseller, but also brings condemnation to it - what could the death of 17 people, 6 of whom were children, “festival”? In the city, the architecture of the “House with the Blue Room” is quite unusual: each chapter is told from the point of view of the new character, interviews are interspersed with memories, fragments from Saiga’s novel and dry newspaper articles.

Add here skillfully built gaps in conversations and anxious illusion, as if storytellers constantly turn to someone outside the text space. Such a story structure - in which one story is stated simultaneously by several storytellers and it becomes almost impossible to find out which of them speaks the truth - is called in the Japanese language “Jabu but Naka”, that is, “in more often” - according to the name of the story of the Akutagava, filmed in the film “Rasemon”.

Walking along it, you can observe their temporary rapprochement in the same way as the scientist watches neurons synapses. As if there is no center, only a series of endless areas that you move without stopping, like in Chinese checkers.

” This description of the scene perfectly reflects the complex and confusing composition of the text, constantly knocking the reader to the point of elusive answers and ghostly solving - almost everyone can be a killer, and each new fragment of this scattered puzzle offers a new direction for the investigation. Additionally, everything is complicated by a narrative arranged according to the “Chinese box” Chinese-box narrative, when there are three temporary frames in the novel: E, E and E, as well as two art narratives-Riku Onda and Makiko Saigi.

The main driving force of the plot is the fears and doubts of the characters, the social tension between the prosperous family of the hereditary doctors of Aosav and their more poor environment, the need, under any circumstances, “keep your face”, forcing witnesses to answer questions evasively and not to express their suspicions allegedly - all this is like the bombs of a slow action in the company in the company of a small town in order to lead to a new one to lead to a new one.

Tragedies in addition to what happened. The novel “House with the Blue Room” can be rightly called bewitching: in the absence of a dynamic action, he holds in constant tension, slowly moving forward in an alarming jazz rhythm. In her interview, Riku Onda admitted that she was always fascinated by the work of the French jazz pianist Michel Petruchiani and adored his composition “Eugenia”, under the influence of which the poem wrote, and then the novel, which in the original has this name.

Undoubtedly, a fascinating book for unhurried reading. Read more.