Opinion that the spread of the new coronavirus is 'like living in the story of Stephen King'
With the aim of reducing the number of people infected with the new coronavirus,
Stephen King Is Sorry You Feel Like You're Stuck In A Stephen King Novel: NPR
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/08/829298135/stephen-king-is-sorry-you-feel-like-youre-stuck-in-a-stephen-king-novel
King continues to say, 'It's like living in the story of Stephen King,' and says that the only answer is 'sorry.'
The work pointed to by ' The Story of Stephen King' is ' The Stand ' published in 1978.
People fighting for human survival and the future of the world in a world where many people have died and only a few have survived due to the epidemic of influenza virus with a fatality rate of 99% and high infectivity It is a work depicting the figure of. In addition, the work is not after 'how the world is affected by the virus' but after the pandemic.
Mr. King calmly accepts the pandemic of the new coronavirus as `` Travel is the norm in modern society, so it has been decided that it will happen sooner or later '', and a world where his mother is a trauma As I was talking about the Depression, my granddaughter said that I would eventually say, 'I was scared of the virus and couldn't go out.'
Mr. King is at home every day under this pandemic, and there is not much to do, so he is writing a novel. Writing seems to be the right way to escape fright.
By the way, customer reviews at Amazon, which appreciates 'The Stand', are as follows.
The culmination of the early King, a huge masterpiece in both mass
In a society where most infectious diseases have spread and most people in the United States have died, survivors are embarking on American reconstruction.
It is often pointed out in King's novel that the collapse of the community appears as the last catastrophe, but this work is surprising because the United States or the whole world has become a terrible development that collapses from the beginning with the new influenza Will be The King may not have a desire for ruin, but eventually the modern civilization has the idea that he is carrying the lodging business that he will die, and this is depicting the ultimate collapse with this work, and it is two columns There is a feeling that we pursued over a total of 1400 pages. I was so overwhelmed that I wrote this well.
The story of a virus that causes symptoms like a cold and eventually death spreads all over the world, and almost all human beings are about to die, is the same setting as Komatsu Sakyo's 'Resurrection Day'. The setting of slightly surviving people searching for other surviving humans is also reminiscent of Sakyo Komatsu's 'Here Nippon'. This story starts with a science fiction novel approach of a world where humanity is ruined, but King is a stance as a modern horror writer, so he will continue to develop stories based on supernatural phenomena. The rest of the world is not drawn in any way, it is limited to the United States alone, and the ordinary people in the city will play a leading role in this story. There is no description of the measures taken by the heads of state against the deadly virus that has spread around the world like the general science fiction novels, or the analysis of specialized scientists. The rush of people involved in military facilities is only drawn in the beginning. Well, nobody expects King from SF novel development.
' Resurrection Day ', whose name is mentioned in the review, was made into a movie in 1980.
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