Help me find some introductions about the works of novelist Matsumoto Kiyoshi (detective).

Seicho Matsumoto (1909 ~ 1992) is a mysterious Japanese writer. Born in a vendor's family in Kokura City, Kitakyushu. Because of his poor family, 13 was forced to drop out of school to make a living. He worked as a street vendor and apprentice, and also worked as an advertising cartographer for Asahi Shimbun in Kokura. /kloc-drafted into the army in 0/943 and was driven to Korea to be a health soldier. After the war, he was sent back to China and returned to work as a newspaper. At the beginning of Japan's post-war economic depression, in order to support a family of seven, he had to go back and forth between Kansai and Kyushu to wholesale brooms. In his literary memoir Half-Life (1966), he vividly described this bitter past. Seicho Matsumoto's long-term life of discrimination and humiliation provided a realistic social and psychological basis for his ideological development. His Biography of Ogura Diary (1952), Chrysanthemum Pillow (1953) and Broken Monument (1954) all show the times and social life through the life trajectories and failed fates of characters in adversity.

Seicho Matsumoto joined the ranks of mystery writers on 1955 with the book ambush. He exposed the darkness of Japanese society with the theme of power and law, good and evil, crime and punishment. In reflecting the depth and breadth of life, compared with the traditional criminal detective novels, he showed valuable expansion and transcendence. His Points and Lines (1957) and The Partition Wall has Eyes (1957) are well received by readers after the world. Representative works include Points and Lines, The Wall Has Eyes, Zero Focus, Black Fog in Japan, The Price of Women, The Villain, Shawa, The Painter Who Murdered Lovers, etc. Persuading people by reasoning, rather than pursuing bizarre adventures, analyzing criminal motives and exposing social shady has certain social significance. Because of his unique style, he was elected as the director of japanese mystery in 1963, which is known as "the era of mystery novels in Qing Dynasty". In addition, he also wrote many historical novels, science fiction novels and modern novels, and won various literary awards many times. He is a typical late bloomer.

Seicho Matsumoto, who has only received primary education, is very studious. During his working career, he read a lot of literary works, among which the works of Dostoevsky and Gorky have the greatest influence on him. He was inspired by the works of two famous writers describing the lives of the working people at the bottom, which stimulated his creative desire. 1950, Asahi Weekly held a "Million Novels" essay contest, and the first place won a prize of 300,000 yen. This handsome bonus is a temptation for Seicho Matsumoto to support a family of eight. At that time, he couldn't even afford ink and paper, so he used a pencil to write novels on books with poor paper quality. The first novel named Xixiang Banknote won the third prize with a prize of 654.38 million yen. According to the judges, the novel could have won the first prize, but the author was changed to the third prize because he was a newspaper worker. Nevertheless, this is great news for Seicho Matsumoto, who has just entered the literary world. The novel is about an affair between a rickshaw driver and an official's little wife. The official did evil in officialdom and used inflation to enrich himself. This novel takes romance as its lesson and darkness as its latitude, which reflects the abnormal development of Japanese society and shows Seicho Matsumoto's realistic writing style. The award of Xixiang Banknote has brought great encouragement and excitement to Seicho Matsumoto. Although he is no longer young, he is as excited as a teenager. Since then, he has devoted himself to writing. Despite the harsh environment, he still lives in a small room with his parents, his wife and a family of nine with five children. In summer, mosquitoes run rampant. His wife and five children sleep under mosquito nets, and his parents sleep under mosquito nets. Seicho Matsumoto writes during the day, regardless of hard work at night, writing in dim light and driving mosquitoes away with a fan. This hard environment tempered his perseverance and self-confidence. 1952, Seicho Matsumoto wrote a story about "The Diary of Kokura" and posted it in Tammy Literature magazine, which was praised by the famous writer Mumu Gao Qiao Lang and won the 28th Akutagawa Prize. "Akutagawa Prize" is an award for new literary talents in Japanese literary circles. Seicho Matsumoto, 43, as a new literary genius, has brought hope and fame to his future writing life. Japanese detective stories have gone through the process of translation, imitation and rewriting of European and American detective stories, from which the traditional Japanese detective stories "Benguer School" and "Biangepai School" were born, to which Edgar Vajpore and Seishi Yokomizo contributed greatly. However, the status of early Japanese detective novels in the history of Japanese literature is not high, and there is no new breakthrough in creative conception, and it also follows the pattern of European and American detective novels in content and form. At this time, a generation of pioneer Seicho Matsumoto appeared on the stage. He injected fresh blood into traditional detective novels and became the originator of Japanese social school mystery novels. Taro Mugang is 12 years older than Seicho Matsumoto, but he is already one of the representative writers of Benguer School. After reading several novels by Seicho Matsumoto, he thought Seicho Matsumoto was a treasure. Knowing that Seicho Matsumoto was no longer young, Takeoka Taro urged him to go to Tokyo to make a living and created writing conditions for him. With the encouragement of Taro Mugang, Seicho Matsumoto regarded writing as his life, and published many novels such as Warring States Policy and Chrysanthemum Pillow in Literary Spring and Autumn Annals. At that time, Seicho Matsumoto came to Tokyo alone to write. His homesickness and care for his wife and children at home touched him. According to my own feeling of reading detective novels, I wrote the mystery novel "Point, Line and Surface". The appearance of "Point, Line and Surface" created a precedent for social reasoning novels and was immediately praised. This is his first mystery novel, and it is also a breakthrough in the history of japanese mystery. Later, it was rated as one of the top ten detective mystery novels in the world. Seicho Matsumoto

From 1956, on the one hand, Seicho Matsumoto engaged in the creation of historical novels, and wrote Xiulai Walking, Conspiracy General and Wandering in the Left; On the other hand, he continued to write mystery novels, such as scenes, murders, criminals and Yan. "Yan" has been serialized in travel magazines for one year, which has been well received by readers and won the grand prize awarded by the Japanese Detective Writers Club. Therefore, Seicho Matsumoto's literary creation begins with pure literary works. There were not many pure literature magazines in Japan at that time. In order to stand out, Seicho Matsumoto often consulted literary celebrities. He went to visit Jing Shangjing with his own practice, and wanted to ask Jing Shangjing to recommend the manuscript to the first-class publishing house, but Jing Shangjing was indifferent and looked down on the new literary scholar. After becoming a master of japanese mystery, Seicho Matsumoto once recalled this experience in his article, revealing his grievances and indignation between the lines. However, with the support and efforts of Woody Takataro, Seicho Matsumoto finally wrote The Partition Wall has Eyes, which attracted the attention of the publishing industry. The publication of Point, Line and Surface and Wall with Eyes is the epoch-making beginning of Japanese literary mystery novels, from which Japanese social mystery novels were born. Because it is the first time that Seicho Matsumoto endowed japanese mystery with the realistic content of social criticism, which makes it readable and has profound social significance. Seicho Matsumoto is a prolific writer. He only went to primary school, and later became a late bloomer. Before he was 40 years old, he lived a life of suppressing poverty. He wrote an autobiography, Half-Life, which vividly described 40 years of poor and bitter life and made people cry. After the age of 40, Seicho Matsumoto's literary talent was excavated and developed, and Berta was written one after another. The Silent Beast Road, Deep Ocean Current, Flag of Fog, Yellow Terrace, The Price of Women, Elopement, The Popular Color of Death, new york, Potential Murder, The Haunted House of Turtle Hotel, The Painter Who Murdered Lovers, Forehead and Teeth, etc., and his works are as many as 20. In addition to writing mystery novels, he also wrote reportage Black Fog in Japan and Historical Excavation in Showa, and engaged in the research of ancient mystery materials, and wrote academic monographs such as Ancient Doubt History and Questionable Examination of Travel History. Besides, Seicho Matsumoto is an art connoisseur. Although he only graduated from primary school, he can speak fluent English by teaching himself a foreign language, which shows his versatility in the field of literature and art. Seicho Matsumoto

Shawa, which was adapted into a film based on his novel, caused a sensation in Japan and also swept the world cinema. From 65438 to 0963, Seicho Matsumoto succeeded Edgwa Lapol as the chairman of the Japanese Association of Inferior Writers. He summed up his writing experience in his later years. He said, "Writers are not special beings, but ordinary citizens. If they have privileged thoughts, won't they find their own way? " It is precisely because he personally experienced 40 years of hard training that he particularly sympathized with the little people in his works. After becoming famous, he often recalls his past life. He wrote: "Those dreams are almost all dreams of poverty or military age. There is no rice. What shall we give our family tomorrow? In the military camp in North Korea, I was restless about my family's life ... I woke up in the morning and was covered in cold sweat. " The brand of this era and life makes his works present a kind of "popularization", which not only represents Japanese popular literature in thought, but also strives to keep his works close to the popularization, that is, to write for the popularization. Compared with Edgar Vajpore and Seishi Yokomizo, Seicho Matsumoto's writing style is more approachable and easy to understand, which is deeply loved by readers from all walks of life. Some people once thought that Seicho Matsumoto was a pure literary novelist and later became a mystery novelist, which is very regrettable. However, Seicho Matsumoto has his own views. He thinks that the readership of pure literature is too narrow and only scholars study it. Whether it is pure literature or popular literature, the final determination of its value must be tested by a large number of readers, which is why Seicho Matsumoto's works have a large number of readers and become Conan Doyle's successor. The third master of detective stories after agatha christie.

1In August, 992, a master of social mystery novels died of liver cancer at the age of 82.

Representative works include Points and Lines, The Wall Has Eyes, Zero Focus, Black Fog in Japan, The Price of Women, The Villain, Shawa, The Painter Who Murdered Lovers, etc.

His novel style is approachable. I have read Sandware, which is very good.