Hope, eternal spring, of Stephen King

Or also Rita Hayworth and Shawshank's Redemption. The point is to grant separately all the value of the short novels that make up the great volume of The Four Seasons, by Stephen King.

With this incomparable author something singular, indefinable happens. It happens that King is able to write now and then also a string of masterpieces that end up providing a reducing perspective of the whole. I explain…

We can all recognize the masterpiece Perfume de Patrick Süskind: The conspiracy of fools de John kennedy toole, to speak of two authors with that single work that stands out objectively in a not very extensive production. However, when a guy like this genius writes perfect works almost continuously, the notion of his mastery seems to be devalued. Releasing masterpieces such as churros can be seen in part as a disservice to the final assessment of the writer.

In the case of Rita Hayworth and the redemption of Shawshank as a novel chosen for the Spring set and prelude to Summer of Corruption, we find a considerable novelon The Count of Montecristo of our times shortened version in extension.

Feelings of frustration due to the punishment imputed without guilt, the hope for a later revenge, the plot that advances with more and more reasons to yearn for that explosive ending that finally ends up exploding us in a plane of indescribable literary joy ...

And then later it turns out that a movie is made about the novel: Perpetual Chain, and it happens that as an exception to the rule that film manages to catch up with the novel or even surpass it ...

A story told by a fascinating character like Red. From the future of the events related to the confinement of Andy Dufresne for the murder of his wife, we are getting to know this unforgettable character whose time in prison seems the emblem of injustice, of the passion for freedom, of the need for revenge, of that redemption that the title announces and that addresses everything.

A great little masterpiece that fades, as I say, in that literary production overflowing with ingenuity, sometimes from the fantastic, sometimes from the terror, also even from the existential without more, but always with the mystery, a mystery that analyzes the interstices of the human soul exposed to all its limits and its own edges ...

You can find the novel Hope, Eternal Spring, also subtitled as Rita Hayworth and Shawshank's Redemption, in the volume The Four Seasons I: