![]() ![]() ![]() The family moved to what is now Kameyama, Mie, and from there to Nagoya when he was age two. His father was a merchant, who had also practiced law. Tarō Hirai was born in Nabari, Mie Prefecture in 1894, where his grandfather had been a samurai in the service of Tsu Domain. Other authors who were special influences on him were Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whom he attempted to translate into Japanese during his days as a student at Waseda University, and the Japanese mystery writer Ruikō Kuroiwa.īiography Before World War II His pen name is a rendering of Poe's name. Ranpo was an admirer of Western mystery writers, and especially of Edgar Allan Poe. Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogoro Akechi, who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known as the "Boy Detectives Club" ( 少年探偵団, Shōnen tantei dan). Tarō Hirai ( 平井 太郎, Hirai Tarō, October 21, 1894 – July 28, 1965), better known by the pen name Edogawa Ranpo ( 江戸川 乱歩) was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction. ![]()
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The novel opens by describing Ts’its’tsi’nako, the Thought-Woman, who is telling this entire story. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, the most direct instance of repetition comes when our narrator is watching the pendulum come ever-closer to his body. Okay, so we know not only that the narrator saw these things, but we get an idea of how unrelenting and powerful each image is each stands out, alone, in its own sentence each has the power to exist independently of the others. ![]() I saw them fashion the syllables of my name" (2). I saw them writhe with a deadly locution. Later on in the same paragraph, he writes, "I saw that the decrees of what to me was Fate were still issuing from those lips. Repetition is just one of many tricks, but it is perhaps Poe's favorite. When he adds that phrase "unto death," well, we know exactly how bad he's feeling. By doubly emphasizing "sick," Poe makes it very clear that our narrator isn't feeling very well – it also allows him to modify it, to give it more power. It's there from the very first line: "I was sick – sick unto death with that long agony" (2). What do we mean by rhetorical? Well, in this case it refers to several writing devices, devices intended to keep us reading and build tension. Poe relies heavily on rhetorical tricks in order to bring his message home and strike terror into our hearts. – it's no wonder that our author has to resort to some drastic measures. 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