Ranpo Edogawa

Andrzej Świrkowski

Gąsienica

In the past few decades Ranpo's writing has inspired films, anime, plays and manga, and many translations of his stories, essays, and novels have appeared, but until now no English translation of 'Panoramato Kidan' has been available.

Strange Tale of Panorama Island

Suehiro Maruo

Presents a graphic novel adaptation of the story in which a failed novelist impersonates a dead industrialist and builds a hedonistic island empire.

The Strange Tale of Panorama Island

The Boy Detectives Club

The year is 1953. The Korean War is winding down. The Cold War is heating up. The United States detonated the first hydrogen bomb the year before. Godzilla will make his debut a year later. UFOs are appearing all over the world. And in Ranpo Edogawa's latest novel, five flying saucers fly right across the skies of Tokyo.A day after that incident, a woodsman stumbles out of the forest to report the landing of an alien spacecraft in the mountains southwest of Tokyo. A month later, Ichiro Hirano's next-door neighbor goes missing. And then reappears as abruptly as he'd vanished, claiming he'd been kidnapped by a lizard creature from outer space.The same lizard creature that is now stalking the pretty and talented sister of Ichiro's best friend. What in the world is going on? What do the aliens want? And where did they come from? These are the kind of questions that only master sleuth Kogoro Akechi and the Boy Detectives Club can hope to answer.

The Space Alien

Un homme mutilé aux prises avec les perversions de sa femme, une " chaise humaine " prodiguant caresses et sueurs froides à ses victimes, des confessions criminelles dans une " chambre rouge ", une intrigue machiavélique autour d'une " pièce de deux sen "... On retrouvera dans ces cinq récits - les plus célèbres de Ranpo Edogawa - la même atmosphère et le même goût pour les mises en scène fantastiques et obsessionnelles que dans La proie et l'ombre : une logique implacable qui fait du crime une voie esthétique, où s'entremêlent perversions sexuelles, cruauté raffinée, manies et délires mentaux. " Flânerie au bord du fleuve Edo ", telle est la traduction littérale des idéogrammes utilisés pour composer ce nom de Edogawa Ranpo (anagramme de Edgar Allan Poe), plus connu au Japon comme le maître fondateur de la littérature policière japonaise.

récits policiers

La chambre rouge

Takayuki Tatsumi

Seth Jacobowitz

Edogawa Rampo (pseudonym of Hirai Taro, 1894-1965) is the acknowledged grand master of Japan's golden age of crime and mystery fiction. He is also a major writer in the tradition of Japanese Modernism, and exerts a massive influence on the popular and literary culture of today's Japan. The Edogawa Rampo Reader presents a selection of outstanding examples of his short fiction, and a selection of his non-fiction prose. Together, they present a full and accurate picture of Rampo as a major contributor to the Japanese literary scene, helping to clarify his achievements to the English-speaking world. All the content of the Rampo Reader is brand-new to English. His non-fiction work has never been translated into English before. This is the only place to find a comprehensive one-volume introduction to the world of Edogawa Rampo.

The Edogawa Rampo Reader

Daniel Aguilar

Crímenes selectos

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Anthologie Ranpo Gekiga

Sur son bras gauche, un lézard noir ondulait, il semblait ramper Tout en donnant l'impression qu'il allait se déplacer de son bras vers l'épaule, puis vers le cou, pour arriver enfin jusqu'aux lèvres humides et rouges, il restait indéfiniment surplace. Une enquête de Kogorô Akechi, et certainement le plus célèbre roman policier d'Edogawa : un cambriolage rocambolesque lancera le détective dans une course-poursuite sur les traces d'une femme fatale et sans scrupule surnommée " le Lézard noir ", à la recherche de la belle Sanae. Un enlèvement réussi et des travestissements déconcertants mettront à mal sa perspicacité et conduiront le lecteur dans un labyrinthe secret et inattendu, jusqu'à un musée extravagant. Yukio Mishima a adapté ce roman au théâtre, jouant lui-même un petit rôle dans le film qui en fut tiré par le réalisateur Kinji Fukasaku, en 1968.

Le Lézard noir

Gu dao zhi gui

Monologue of a devil

The psychological test and other stories

Unidentified title

Fruits of pomegranate

Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

Short stories

A thief is on the loose in Tokyo, a smash and grab artist that targets high-end jewelry stores and steals only rare and valuable watches and timepieces. The identity of the burglar is no mystery. It's a metal robot, dubbed the "Bronze Devil" by the press. Nothing is safe from this mighty machine. One night the Bronze Devil even carts away an entire clock tower. Now it has set its sights on the estate of Ryunosuke Tezuka and the "Royal Luminous Watch." The police know the Bronze Devil's next victim because the robot brazenly told them the time and the place. Except with its magical ability to appear and disappear seemingly out of nowhere, the police are powerless to stop one theft after the other. That can only mean it's time to put master sleuth Kogoro Akechi and the Boy Detectives Club on the case. Ranpo Edogawa's first Boy Detectives Club novel since 1939 features the debut of the "Street Gang Irregulars," a motley crew of war orphans inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's Baker Street Irregulars. Against such a formidable foe, these clever kids will have their work cut out for them. But let there be no doubt that Edogawa's new and improved crime-fighting crew will come through in the end.

Ranpo Edogawa

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