500 Novels In 31 Years, And I Thought I Was Quick
The Yomiuri reports on Japanese mystery novelist Jiro Akagawa’s 500th novel being published. Which of his novels is actually the 500th is debatable, though: one critic says it’s the recently-released Draculajo no Butokai (The Ball at Castle Dracula); Akagawa himself says that the novel Mikeneko Homuzu no Sawakai (Calico Cat Holmes’ Tea Party) is actually the 500th.
Either way, holy SHIT that’s a lot of goddamn books. 10-20 a year, according to the Yomiuri’s count. And then there are two other novelists in Japan who have written 432 books. What’s up with these workaholics?
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March 18th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
By my calculations that’s a novel every two-to-three weeks. Either the man’s applied a salaryman work ethic to creativity, or he just loves to write.