TY - JOUR

T1 - Американский двойник / американский психопат в творческом тупике

AU - Головачева, Ирина Владимировна

N1 - Головачева И. Американский двойник/американский психопат в творческом тупике// Литература двух Америк. 2024. № 16. С. 147-168.

PY - 2024/6/14

Y1 - 2024/6/14

N2 - The article focuses on American fiction and detective thrillers where the writer and his double feature as central characters. Such a combination has not previously received special attention. The divided mind provides a wide range of possibilities for fascination and exploring the fundamental fears of fragmentation and potential destruction of the Self. In Stephen King’s novella “Secret Window, Secret Garden” (1990), crime, duplicity, madness and dissociative amnesia are integrated into the story of the writer's block. The present article, among other things, analyzes the adaptation of the novella — David Koepp’s Secret Window, 2004. Besides, it highlights the changes that the script underwent. Koepp came up with his own ending that was radically different from the Epilogue of King's story. Alongside with madness proper, King's horror and Koepp's film deconstruct the writer’s block as the result of unresolved traumas and the cause of a whole bunch of pathologies, as well as the fear of breakdown. The novella and its screen version are, in fact, phenomenological studies of mental disorders. A close comparative analysis shows that the film offers a rare example of the superiority of adaptation over the original. A particular attention in the article is paid to the imagery of ears of corn in the film, functioning both as a cannibalistic grotesque and as a visual metaphor of success.

AB - The article focuses on American fiction and detective thrillers where the writer and his double feature as central characters. Such a combination has not previously received special attention. The divided mind provides a wide range of possibilities for fascination and exploring the fundamental fears of fragmentation and potential destruction of the Self. In Stephen King’s novella “Secret Window, Secret Garden” (1990), crime, duplicity, madness and dissociative amnesia are integrated into the story of the writer's block. The present article, among other things, analyzes the adaptation of the novella — David Koepp’s Secret Window, 2004. Besides, it highlights the changes that the script underwent. Koepp came up with his own ending that was radically different from the Epilogue of King's story. Alongside with madness proper, King's horror and Koepp's film deconstruct the writer’s block as the result of unresolved traumas and the cause of a whole bunch of pathologies, as well as the fear of breakdown. The novella and its screen version are, in fact, phenomenological studies of mental disorders. A close comparative analysis shows that the film offers a rare example of the superiority of adaptation over the original. A particular attention in the article is paid to the imagery of ears of corn in the film, functioning both as a cannibalistic grotesque and as a visual metaphor of success.

KW - двойник писателя

KW - преступление

KW - безумие

KW - диссоциация

KW - творческий кризис

KW - Стивен Кинг

KW - Дэвид Кепп

KW - страх безумия

KW - фасцинация

KW - David Koepp

KW - Stephen King

KW - crime

KW - dissociative amnesia

KW - fascination

KW - fear of breakdown

KW - madness

KW - the writer’s double

KW - writer’s block

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/6f273cb8-0de8-351b-9504-62409e471bfc/

U2 - 10.22455/2541-7894-2024-16-147-168

DO - 10.22455/2541-7894-2024-16-147-168

M3 - статья

SP - 147

EP - 168

JO - Literature of the Americas

JF - Literature of the Americas

SN - 2541-7894

IS - 16

M1 - 6

ER -