What is Keigo Higashino's writing style? Why did he succeed?

Keigo Higashino's mystery novels express an ideal, which is to comfort the souls of the humble who are threatened by death. This ideal belongs to all human individuals who have real feelings about the plight of life.

The lowlifes in his works are in opposition to the modern society, resisting scientific and technological rationality and its accompanying monitoring system, which is to publicize differences and even affirm the power of heresy. He refused to put rationality on the altar of intelligence, but revealed the misery brought by unilaterally publicizing instrumental rationality and the unforgettable death anxiety of contemporary people living under the domination of this instrumental rationality.

Keigo Higashino is an experimental writer. Since her debut, she has been constantly exploring the unique novel style, absorbing the nutrients of domestic excellent works and constantly pioneering and innovating, thus forming a "realistic benchman" style. In Dongye's view, there is no element that cannot be applied to mystery novels, so his novels show the integration of many fields.

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Artistic features

In terms of artistic techniques, Dongye believes that "a novel should be a good story first, a good story that people like to listen to", and how to tell stories has become a new challenge for Dongye. Dongye's narrative techniques are flexible and changeable. Some adopt the unique model of "listening to cases, giving explanations and solving cases one by one" in Yukawa studies, some adopt a multi-line parallel and intersecting structure, and some even construct novels in the form of diaries and manuscripts without a dialogue throughout.

Characters

In Keigo Higashino's works, the love and hate of characters often appear as a kind of transcendental existence, that is, after the simple explanation of the causes of emotions, the plot lays emphasis on strengthening and rendering this emotion again and again. Without any change, the causes of characters' personalities may be complicated and gloomy, but once they are formed, they are extremely stable.

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