Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

TABLE DES MATIÈRES – TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.   STEPHEN KING – 11/22/63

2.   STEPHEN KING – J.J. ABRAMS – 22.11.63 – 2016

3.   STEPHEN KING – BRENDAN GLEESON - HARRY TREADAWAY – MR. MERCEDES FIRST SEASON – 2017

4.   STEPHEN KING – BRENDAN GLEESON - HARRY TREADAWAY – JUSTINE LUPE – MR. MERCEDES SECOND SEASON – 2018

5.   STEPHEN KING – BRENDAN GLEESON - HARRY TREADAWAY – JUSTINE LUPE – MR. MERCEDES THIRD SEASON – 2019

6.   STEPHEN KING – THE BILL HODGES TRILOGY – VOLUME ONE – MR. MERCEDES – 2014

7.   STEPHEN KING – THE BILL HODGES TRILOGY – VOLUME TWO – FINDERS KEEPERS – 2015

8.   STEPHEN KING – THE BILL HODGES TRILOGY – VOLUME THREE – END OF WATCH – 2016

9.   THE BLACKER, THE BLEAKER -  STEPHEN KING – THE INSTITUTE – 2019

11.               STEPHEN KING – BAG OF BONES – MATT VENNE – MICK GARRIS – 2011

12.               STEPHEN KING – DAVID FRAZEE – PRIME VIDEO – CHAPELWAITE – 2021

13.               STEPHEN KING – ROSE RED – 2002

14.               STEPHEN KING – THE SUNDOG – 1990-2018

15.               STEPHEN KING – BILLY SUMMERS – 2021

16.               RICHARD KING, STEPHEN CHIZMAR – GWENDY’S BUTTON BOX – CEMETERY DANCE – 2017

17.              RICHARD CHIZMAR – GWENDY’S MAGIC FEATHER – 2019

18.               STEPHEN KING, RICHARD CHIZMAR – GWENDY’S FINAL TASK – 2022

19.               STEPHEN KING & RICHARD CHIZMAR – THE GWENDY TRILOGY – 2017-2022

20.               STEPHEN KING – LISEY’S STORY – 2006

21.               CLARK – LISEY'S STORY (APPLE TV+ ORIGINAL SERIES SOUNDTRACK) – 25 JUNE 2021

22.               JACQUES COULARDEAU – LE COLLEGE LIBELLULE

23.               JACQUES COULARDEAU – BLACK WIDOW LOVER – AMOUR ET VEUVES NOIRES

Frida KAHLO – Autoportrait dans un univers désolé – Self-Portrait in a Waste Land

The full file is available – all its 22 megas – on Academia.edu, Resarchgate.net, and Slideshare.net.

Follow the links. Free Open Access

https://www.academia.edu/92555889/Stephen_King_Says_Hello_From_the_Devils_Capharna%C3%BCm

https://www.slideshare.net/EditionsLaDondaine/stephen-king-says-hello-from-the-devils-capharnam

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366176226_Stephen_King_Says_Hello_From_the_Devil's_Capharnaum

We are so little in this world – Nous sommes si peu de chose dans ce monde.

Ne croyez pas que vous survivrez à l’apocalypse. Do not believe you may survive this apocalypse.

While we are waiting for the voluminous study on Fairy Tale that is supposed to be published in Romania soon. I present you the following coverage of quite a few recent or less recent books or audiovisual productions on books by Stephen King. There are a lot of pictures but altogether it has about 90 pages or so. And practically 40,000 words.

 FREE-FALLING DESCENT INTO EPIPHANY OR

APOCALYPSE STEPHEN KING – A FAIRY TALE

Prof. Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU,

 Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne,

FRANCE,

Email: dondaine@orange.fr

(slightly extended) ABSTRACT

Stephen King has published more than seventy books and has had many of them adapted to the cinema and television, with some original series that have no written fictional equivalent, except one, Storm of the Century whose TV scenario was published in 1999. He is known for his horror novels, but his reach is a lot wider than that and he systematically mixes the various genres of horror, fantasy, suspense, mystery, science fiction, fantastic, and many others, in his fiction. Here I only consider his latest stand-alone novel written with no other collaborating author and not part of a series or collection like Gwendy’s Final Task, also published in 2022 but co-authored with Richard Chizmar.

I will try to show the style that used some patterns to build the architecture of the story, and in this particular novel, the use of ternary structures at all levels of the story and style seems to be fundamental. Note this ternary pattern is borrowed from the Bible and some famous fairy tales collected by the Grimm Brothers, mostly. Yet the ending brings up a problem since it locks up the two deep and deeper levels with a concrete slab, thus breaking the ternary topography. Is it meaningful about Stephen King’s fiction, or is it only a way to suspend the situation in order to produce another novel when they reopen the passage by breaking up the concrete slab, or when Gogmagog manages to escape the deeper level and manages to invade our own world?

That’s the mystery about Stephen King. His fiction is so popular and has been so much exploited on the various screens we live with that we wonder if this multifarious fiction will survive the author, even with his two sons to promote and prolong his fame, his moral rights, and his fictional intellectual property when it becomes necessary.

KEYWORDS: horror, fantasy, science fiction, magic, Bible, Revelation, Gogmagog.

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This novel was very long in its process of getting up into some kind of life. It is impossible to enter the story if you do not set your mind on France a little bit in the background in 1982, represented here by a Jewish woman, Rachel Duthoit from Croix who is the daughter of a couple of Auschwitz survivors, the father Abel Duthoit telling his daughter how the victim of some torture can easily become in a different situation the torturer of someone who has become the prey, his or her prey, in the new situation. We can always find someone smaller than us and find pleasure in hassling them. There is always a torturer in every single human being.

This young woman goes to the USA for a full year of teaching at the University of California at Davis. The novel is the story of her voyage there and of one particular young Black man, Tony Hughes, she meets along the way. The situation becomes erotic very fast for Rachel Duthoit, but she finds in Tony Hughes both the man she desires and the man she cannot have or take. Racial bias? Maybe. Cultural bias? Maybe. A deeply frustrating and frustrated experience on both sides that leads to a real drama of impossible communication and exchange.

You will wonder from beginning to end whether Rachel Duthoit had the intention to bring back some real personal transformation from the USA, or whether she was going there to enjoy the change but to keep herself protected against any real transformational experience as if her personality was some kind of a ghetto to be kept protected and pristine.

Did she become the torturer of Tony Hughes, at least by refusing to yield to his desire, by rejecting him?

But why on earth did she reject him? That’s your task to find out because as for me, I cannot really reach any clear-cut conclusion.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU.

Olliergues, France, February 18, 2022

Ce roman a été très long à prendre vie en quelque sorte. On ne peut pas entrer dans l'histoire si l'on n'a pas la France de 1982 à l'esprit en arrière-plan, représentée ici par une femme juive, Rachel Duthoit de Croix qui est la fille d'un couple de survivants d'Auschwitz, le père Abel Duthoit expliquant à sa fille comment un ou une torturé/e peut facilement devenir, si la situation s’ prête, le bourreau de quelqu'un d’autre devenu sa proie dans cette nouvelle situation. Nous pouvons toujours trouver quelqu'un de plus faible que nous et prendre du plaisir à le/la harceler. On trouve toujours un tortionnaire au plus profond de chaque être humain.

Cette jeune femme part aux États-Unis enseigner à l'Université de Californie à Davis pour une année complète. Ce roman est l'histoire de son voyage et d'un jeune homme noir, Tony Hughes, qu'elle rencontre en chemin. La situation devient très vite érotique pour Rachel Duthoit, mais elle trouve en Tony Hughes à la fois l'homme qu'elle désire et celui qu'elle ne peut pas prendre et posséder. Des préjugés raciaux ? Peut-être. Un préjugé culturel ? Peut-être. Une expérience profondément frustrante et frustrée de part et d'autre qui débouche sur un véritable drame de communication et d'échange impossibles.

Vous vous demanderez du début à la fin si Rachel Duthoit avait l'intention de développer une réelle transformation personnelle aux Etats-Unis, ou si elle s'y rendait pour profiter du changement de décor, mais tout en se protégeant de toute éventualité de transformation réelle, comme si sa personnalité était une sorte de ghetto verrouillé à double tour, à protéger et à préserver.

Est-elle devenue la tortionnaire de Tony Hughes, au moins en refusant de céder à son désir, en/pour elle et en/pour lui, en le rejetant ?

Mais pourquoi diable l'a-t-elle rejeté ? C'est à vous de le découvrir car pour ma part, je n'arrive pas vraiment à une conclusion nette et tranchée.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU.

Olliergues, France, 18 février 2022

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