Surprise party suspense novels in the cafe

Suspense reasoning novels have been developed for less than two hundred years, but there have been a large number of masters and many classic works have been born. Until today, suspense novels are still very popular in Europe, America and Japan, and often occupy the forefront of the best-seller lists. The upsurge of domestic suspense novels appeared in 2005, when the Da Vinci Code, written by an American writer Dan Brown, aroused great repercussions among readers, and the creation of suspense novels in China began to flourish, resulting in a large number of excellent local suspense writers and works.

The development of any type of literature will encounter a bottleneck period, and suspense reasoning novels are no exception. Today, almost all the tricks, suspense and structures have been written by previous masters, leaving less and less space for contemporary creators, and it is even more difficult to write new ideas. But Mr. Gulong, a master of martial arts, said well that if writing requires new, you have to change, you have to break through the inherent form and try to absorb it.

In April 2017, surprise Party in a Cafe, a suspense novel produced by Yanbeitang (Beijing) Culture Co., Ltd., made some interesting attempts at innovation and change. The story tells that on the night of the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, three men and three women went to a coffee shop, which coincided with a large-scale power outage in the city. So in the process of waiting for the call, facing the flickering candlelight, three men and three women played the game of picking up the dragon and telling stories. After six scary stories, they returned to reality in a trance, only to find to their horror that one of their companions had actually been murdered.

First of all, in terms of the structure of the novel, the author tries to draw nourishment from pure literature and draws lessons from the famous poem "pedestrians in the Cold Winter Night" written by Calvino, a master of Italian postmodern novels. The structure of the novel is also composed of two parts: the frame story (main line) and the embedded novel (branch line). It is unique and the layout is fine, which enhances the reading interest. The six embedded stories in "the surprise Party in the Cafe" are not only independent, but also echo the main line. The main story is the first person, while the six-act branch line is dominated by the third person, which crosses and switches between the virtual and the real, which makes the whole novel suspense again and again, like a dream and true, forming a magnificent reversal like a kaleidoscope.

At the beginning of the story, the time background was set on the night of the Lunar New year Ghost Festival, and a sudden power outage made the whole cafe look spooky. Six men and women with different ideas, a game with an idea, six impromptu stories, a premeditated murder! And no matter in which story, the protagonists are always these six men and women, so that the story itself has a strong sense of substitution, time and space crisscross, strange, the protagonist is both familiar and unfamiliar, making the reader seem to be in "Inception."

The main line is a standard reasoning story, while the six-act branch line has a very different style. "Pigeon beheading", under the cloak of horror, seems to be out of tricks, but the answer is extremely clear. Although the length of "Moonlight Castle Psycho" is not long, it is a mixture of ghost buildings, ferocious houses, dreams, Blizzard Villa and treasure hunts and other suspense factors. Without seeing the last section, readers always do not know the truth. The "Butterfly effect", a series of absurd deaths, the bizarre arrangement of the hand of fate, and the trigger of a little chance and coincidence, finally lead to the human tragedy that things have changed, which are interlinked and interpret the necessity of accident. "the bridegroom is dead, something burns paper." just looking at the title makes people feel cold. In fact, behind the horrible and strange story, there is a mournful beauty of love and revenge. "Thank you for not killing the opposite door", the plot is like a Russian doll, the novel is covered with novels, beauties and demons dance together, truth and fiction fly together, forming an interesting text in Chinese. The circular structure of "desperate Lottery" is similar to that of the movie "vulgar novel". Suddenly, there is an O'Henry reversal at the end, which goes deep in the subversion, and the tragedy is reflected in the comedy.

Generally speaking, the surprise Party in the Cafe is a novel with unique structure and novel plot. Three men and three women, on the night of the Zhongyuan Ghost Festival when there was a power outage, amid the candlelight of the demons, you sang and I took the stage, "Let you die in my story"! The six people are talking and laughing on the surface, telling stories like drums and flowers, but undercurrent is surging in private, killing opportunities everywhere, and the murder with a knife is about to be staged. In particular, during the interval after the end of the fifth act of the story, according to the limited clues of that night, the six people said their own words, making the truth more complicated and confusing, putting on a good show of "Luo Sheng Men". But there is only one truth. When the veil of the real killer was lifted, a surprise party on the night of the Ghost Festival finally came to an end, reading not only twists and turns, but also gratitude and hatred.

The author of this book, cold blue cat, formerly known as Cao Dayong, is the signed author of Yan Beitang and was the moderator of Sina original Literature Forum. Born in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, but not good at drinking, do not eat mutton, straightforward personality, thin body. I have a wide range of interests. I like books, movies and cats best. Like to write novels, prefer suspense, reasoning, martial arts and other topics.