цитата FirewalkingПрочитал недавно про Батаанский марш смерти. Теперь вот думаю, не отталкивался ли (вдохновлялся, наверное, будет не совсем подходящим словом) Кинг от этого события при написании "Долгой прогулки"?
Я сейчас читаю (и потихоньку, но очень медленно) перевожу книгу Кинга "Сердца в тревожном ожидании" (книга о студенческих годах Стивена) и вот, что он пишет о Долгой прогулке:
The story I went to bed telling myself in the fall of 1966, while I was living in Gannett Hall with Harold C., was about a bunch of boys in a marathon walking contest. It was set in some vague totalitarian dystopia I didn’t care much about. What I cared about was the life-and-death nature of the contest. There would be a hundred boys walking south, and each time one of them fell below the speed of four miles an hour, he would be shot dead. Years later, when people began to suggest it was an allegory about all the young men who were drafted and sent to Vietnam to die, I had to smile, because when I wrote The Long Walk, I was still one of the “in it to win it” crowd. What I cared about were the characters, especially the conundrum of my protagonist, Ray Garraty. I kept writing in order to find out why he was doing something that meant almost certain death. Finally, I did. It’s always been that way with me. I don’t tell the characters what to do; they do stuff, and by so doing, tell me.
То есть он даже о Вьетнамской войне не думал при написании Долгой прогулки, его просто привлекла идея смертельного марафона и поведение людей в такой экстремальной ситуации. |
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