Author: Stephen King
Translator: Jae-hyung Cho
Publisher: Hwanggumgaji
H/C | 602 pages | 218*156mm
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About This Book
In Misery (1987), as in The Shining (1977), a writer is trapped in an evil house
during a Colorado winter. Each novel bristles with claustrophobia, stinging
insects, and the threat of a lethal explosion. Each is about a writer faced with
the dominating monster of his unpredictable muse.
Paul Sheldon, the hero of Misery, sees himself as a caged parrot who must return
to Africa in order to be free. Thus, in the novel within a novel, the romance
novel that his mad captor-nurse, Annie Wilkes, forces him to write, he goes to
Africa--a mysterious continent that evokes for him the frightening, implacable
solidity of a woman's (Annie's) body. The manuscript fragments he produces tell
of a great Bee Goddess, an African queen reminiscent of H. Rider Haggard's She.
He hates her, he fears her, he wants to kill her; but all the same he needs her
power. Annie Wilkes literally breathes life into him. Misery touches on several
large themes: the state of possession by an evil being, the idea that art is an
act in which the artist willingly becomes captive, the tortured condition of
being a writer, and the fears attendant to becoming a "brand-name" bestselling
author with legions of zealous fans. And yet it's a tight, highly resonant echo
chamber of a book--one of King's shortest, and best novels ever. --Fiona Webster
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