The man in the black suit, from Stephen King

The man in the black suit
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It never hurts to recover the king of kings of modern literature. Himself Stephen King.

The labels of the writer of horror novels, which have always been placed on the great American author, are conveniently unstitched by good lovers of literature who know how to discover art over and above prejudices. Yes Stephen King It sells because it is good, and if it is capable of writing a lot and fast, it is because it is very good.

I have always been a fervent reader of everything new from Stephen King (As I have time I will upload so many books by this author to this blog). But the truth is that this story, already published in 1995 and winner of the O. Henry award, which stands out the most valuable short stories of the year, well, this story had never been read. So, once I recovered for the cause of news from the publishing market, I stopped at it.

In this book The man in the black suitWe meet Gary in his last days of life. We soon recognize him as a skittish guy, who has probably lived a mediocre life, self-conscious with fear.

His motive was, as Gary recalls, his encounter with the hellish-looking man in the black suit when he was a child ended up weighing him down forever.

But the stories always have more readings. In the short story the reader has more room to imagine. And with the level of depth that King always offers us in his characters, I allow myself to ramble on about fear.

The man in the black suit may be that which paralyzes each and every one of us differently. Our phobias are the man in the black suit, our insecurities are the message of the man in the black suit who tries to scare us with messages about our supposed inability to move forward in life.

The funny thing is that Stephen King introduces us to a dying guy who still hangs around with the idea of ​​that man in black who frightened and gripped him for life. And the truth is that, in that case ... is it worth it? Can you let yourself be carried away by fear until the last of your days? Isn't the only reflection of all fears the same thing: death?

If so, if all fear is a mirror of death, we can only take the man in the black suit by the shoulder, squeeze him with complicity and tell him a few bad jokes.

You can now buy the book The man in the black suit, the fantastic story of Stephen King, here:

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