内容紹介 このコンテンツは日本国内ではパブリックドメインの作品です。印刷版からデジタル版への変換はボランティアによって行われたものです。 内容（「BOOK」データベースより） 精神医学の未開の領域に挑んで、久作一流のドグマをほしいままに駆使しながら、遺伝と夢中遊行病、唯物化学と精神科学の対峙、ライバル学者の闘争、千年前の伝承など、あまりにもりだくさんの趣向で、かえって読者を五里霧中に導いてしまう。それがこの大作の奇妙な魅力であって、千人が読めば千人ほどの感興が湧くにちがいない。探偵小説の枠を無視した空前絶後の奇想小説。
Author
Yumeno Kyūsaku (native name: 夢野 久作) was the pen name of the early Shōwa period Japanese author Sugiyama Yasumichi. The pen name literally means "a person who always dreams." He wrote detective novels and is known for his avant-gardism and his surrealistic, wildly imaginative and fantastic, even bizarre narratives. Kyūsaku’s first success was a nursery tale Shiraga Kozō (White Hair Boy, 1922), which was largely ignored by the public. It was not until his first novella, Ayakashi no Tsuzumi (Apparitional Hand Drum, 1924) in the literary magazine Shinseinen that his name became known. His subsequent works include Binzume jigoku (Hell in the Bottles, 1928), Kori no hate (End of the Ice, 1933) and his most significant novel Dogra Magra (ドグラマグラ, 1935), which is considered a precursor of modern Japanese science fiction and was adapted for a 1988 movie. Kyūsaku died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1936 while talking with a visitor at home.
