Иррациональный кошмар был профессией Морта Рейни — трудно заставить автора «романа ужасов» чего-то испугаться. трудно, но можно. И теперь липкая паутина опутывает писателя, ибо он осознает, что постепенно, шаг за шагом, обращается в безжалостного монстра-убийцу. в персонажа, которого сам же и придумал. Зло, названное по имени, оживает и начинает свое кровавое дело.
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Книга «Секретное окно, секретный сад» (Secret Window, Secret Garden) Стивена Кинга была издана в 1990 году и сразу же заслужила звание достойного триллера, которые так виртуозно умеет создавать признанный Мастер Ужасов. А сочинять романы о писателях у него получается лучше всего, ведь он сам знает всю эту профессию изнутри. Особенностями данного произведения является захватывающий сюжет, который не отпускает до последней строчки, а главное, еще в самом начале книги притягивает читателя.
К чему привыкли все поклонники творчества Кинга? К тому, что он в своих романах не спеша ведет повествование, постепенно раскачиваясь и накаляя обстановку. Но здесь на Вас сразу же выбросят массу информации, благодаря которой даже начинаешь забывать о том, где ты находишься. Динамичный сюжет настолько интересен, что оторваться от книги просто невозможно.
Особенно стоит выделить персонажей книги «Секретное окно, секретный сад». Автор ярко описывает не только главного героя, но также каждого персонажа в романе, а их здесь немало. Это дает возможность читателю поймать их психологические состояния, настроения и эмоции. Неожиданная концовка и элементы мистики придают книге остроту и являются ее украшением.
Сюжет повести «Секретное окно, секретный сад»
Известный писатель по имени Мортон Рейни разводится с женой и решает переехать в небольшой город Тэшмор-Глен, расположенном в штате Мэн. Однажды к писателю приходит незнакомец, который обвиняет его в плагиате. Перечитывая рукописи «Джон Шустер. «Секретное окно, секретный сад», оставленные незнакомцем, Мортон понимает, что большая их часть схожа с рассказом «Посевной сезон», написанным в 1979 году. Мортону Рейни приходится срочно искать доказательства того, что он является автором этого произведения, а плагиатором он не является.
Хочется заметить, что Стивен Кинг и сам когда-то был обвинен в плагиате. Женщина Энн Хилтнер подала в суд на писателя, требуя признать, что он украл у нее и ее брата произведения «Верхом на пуле» и «Мизери». Но к счастью женщина проиграла судебный процесс, а честное имя Кинга было восстановлено.
Впервые повесть «Секретное окно, секретный сад» была опубликована в сборнике Стивена Кинга «Четыре часа после полуночи». В издании 1944 года произведение носило другой вариант перевода «Потаенное окно, потаенный сад».
Джонни Депп – звезда экранизации повести
В 2004 году компанией «Columbia Pictures» по мотивам этой книги был снят фильм «Тайное окно», главную роль в котором сыграл неподражаемый Джонни Депп. Режиссером и сценаристом экранизации стал Дэвид Кепп, который известен работой над такими фильмами как «Парк Юрского периода», «Миссия невыполнима», «Человек-паук», «Люди в черном 3». Бюджет фильма составлял 40 миллионов долларов. В прокате же удалось собрать более 48 миллионов в США и более 44 миллионов во всем мире.
Поклонники творчества Стивена Кинга весьма хорошо отзываются о данном фильме, даже, несмотря на то, что экранизация имеет много отличий от первоисточника «Секретное окно, секретный сад». Изменена и концовка киноленты. Но это никак не смутило читателей книг Мастера Ужасов. Наверное, все дело во всеобожаемом Джонни Деппе, который умеет своим участием вытянуть даже самую безнадежную экранизацию.
«Секретное окно, секретный сад» — это динамичное, но в то же время легкоусвояемое, содержательное, и при этом понятное, интригующее и завораживающее произведение, которое еще не один десяток лет будет восхищать читателей со всех уголков нашего мира. Если кто еще не знаком с данной книгой, тогда обязательно ее прочитайте: наслаждение и масса эмоций будут гарантированы. А в дополнение просмотрите фильм, чтобы удвоить впечатления от прочитанного и еще в который раз убедиться в том, что Стивен Кинг – мастер своего дела.
«Тайное окно»: Повесть Стивена Кинга и её экрнизация!
Книга «Секретное окно, секретный сад», автор Стивен Кинг.
История посвящена Морту Рейни, писателю-затворнику, который имеет за спиной вполне хорошую карьеру, но сейчас своеобразно переживает экзистенциальный кризис. Каждый день он пытается начать писать хоть что-нибудь, но всё безрезультатно — Рейни не может выдавить даже одной буквы. Во многом, это не только благодаря алкоголю, но и затянувшемуся процессу развода с женой, а также странного незнакомца по имени Джон Шутер, обвиняющего Морта в плагиате. ⠀ Повествование набирает обороты стремительно. Большая часть сюжета строится на внутренних переживаниях нашего писателя, и пусть они показаны без особого психологизма, читать всё ровно было интересно. Тема раскола сознания становится очевидной ещё в первой половине книги, но тем не менее, мотивация прочесть до конца не угасала, благодаря тривиальному желанию узнать, к какому же финалу приведёт происходящее?
Ну а значение «секретного окна и сада», является лучшей смысловой трактовкой всего произведения.
В целом, Стивен Кинг написал вполне интересное произведение. Если верить информации в сети — во многом эта повесть перекликается с его биографией, так как Кинга нередко обвиняли в плагиате.
Фильм«Тайное окно». Режиссёр Дэвид Кепп.
Я искренне не понимаю всеобщего одобрения от этого фильма. Мало того, что сюжет и так небольшой повести очень упростили , — хоть это нередко встречается в экранизациях, — так ещё и изменили характер и суть самого персонажа. Теперь Морт Рейни просто пофигист, которому откровенно чихать на развод со своей благоверной и вообще особо не интересен психопат, который обвиняет его в плагиате.
Такое впечатление складывается из-за Джонни Деппа в титульной роли, который даже не пытался здесь сыграть хоть как-нибудь. Вместо этого, мы видим черновую версию Джека Воробья, с его комичными ужимками и простоватым нравом. Между актёрами вообще не было какой-либо химии, а сюжет — откровенно проходной.
Но больше всего расстраивает тот факт, что финал фильма превратили в комедийную «чушь с кукурузой» (кто посмотрит, тот поймёт), а суть «тайного окна» вообще упростили до уровня подросткового бреда. ⠀ В общем, лучше прочтите книгу, она хоть и не претендует на шедевр, но имеет свою изюминку и наполняет смыслом своих героев.
Secret Window, Secret Garden
September 24th, 1990
A man accuses author Mort Rainey of stealing one of his story ideas. Rainey, who is going through an ugly divorce, attempts to prove to his accuser that his own story was published first, but all evidence to support his argument begins to disappear, along with the people who might confirm his case.
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. I published a novel called Misery, which tried, at least in part, to illustrate the powerful hold fiction can achieve over the reader. I published The Dark Half, where I tried to explore the converse: the powerful hold fiction can achieve over the writer. While that book was between drafts, I started to think that there might be a way to tell both stories at the same time by approaching some of the plot elements of The Dark Half from a totally different angle. Writing, it seems to me, is a secret act—as secret as dreaming—and that was one aspect of this strange and dangerous craft I had never thought about much.
I knew that writers have from time to time revised old works—John Fowles did it with The Magus, and I have done it myself with The Stand—but revision was not what I had in mind. What I wanted to do was to take familar elements and put them together in an entirely new way. This I had tried to to at least once before, restructuring and updating the basic elements of Bram Stoker’s Dracula to create ‘Salem’s Lot, and I was fairly comfortable with the idea.
One day in the late fall of 1987, while these things were tumbling around in my head, I stopped in the laundry room of our house to drop a dirty shirt in the washing machine. Our laundry room is a small, narrow alcove on the second floor. I disposed of the shirt and then stepped over to one of the room’s two windows. It was casual curiosity, no more. We’d been living in the same house for eleven or twelve years, but I had never taken a good hard look out this particular window before. The reason is perfectly simple; set at floor level, mostly hidden behind the drier, half blocked by baskets of mending, it’s a hard window to look out of.
I squeezed in, nevertheless, and looked out. That window looks down on a little brick-paved alcove between the house and the attached sunporch. It’s an area I see just about every day . . . but the angle was new. My wife had set half a dozen pots out there, so the plants could take a little of the early-November sun, I suppose, and the result was a charming little garden which only I could see. The phrase which occurred to me was, of course, the title of this story. It seemed to me as good a metaphor as any for what writers—especially writers of fantasy—do with their days and nights. Sitting down at the typewriter or picking up a pencil is a physical act; the spiritual analogue is looking out of an almost forgotten window, a window which offers a common view from an entirely different angle . . . an angle which renders the common extraordinary. The writer’s job is to gaze through that window and report on what he sees.
But sometimes windows break. I think that, more than anything else, is the concern of this story: what happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?
Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing
Exclusive Book-of-the-Month-Club anthology of hard to find non-fiction pieces, little known interviews, short stories, and articles about writing for those looking for direction on how to find their own «windows»—or for anyone wishing to be touched by Stephen King’s humor and wisdom.
Included in this collection are unpublished early fiction (very early; King was 12 when h Exclusive Book-of-the-Month-Club anthology of hard to find non-fiction pieces, little known interviews, short stories, and articles about writing for those looking for direction on how to find their own «windows»—or for anyone wishing to be touched by Stephen King’s humor and wisdom.
Included in this collection are unpublished early fiction (very early; King was 12 when he wrote «Jumper» and «Rush Call»); a pre-Carrie article with tips for selling stories to men’s magazines («The Horror Writer and the Ten Bears: A True Story»); advice to his son on writing (with the look-twice title «Great Hookers I Have Known»); recommendations to teen readers in a Seventeen article («What Stephen King Does for Love»); a long chapter from his wonderful treatise on the horror genre («Horror Fiction» from Danse Macabre); and even a first-time-in-print short story, «In the Deathroom» (just for fun). With an introduction by Peter Straub. . more
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“Well, that’s what writers do. They create ghosts and watch them walk around the room.”
If, like me, you would happily read Stephen King’s shopping list and if you’re a completionist, then Secret Windows should be on your wish-list. Any opportunity that arises where I can get inside King’s head, I will GRAB with two hands.
Secret Windows was initially suggested as a kind of sequel to On Writing. I wouldn’t necessarily put it into that bracket. It’s more like a random collection of different essays “Well, that’s what writers do. They create ghosts and watch them walk around the room.”
If, like me, you would happily read Stephen King’s shopping list and if you’re a completionist, then Secret Windows should be on your wish-list. Any opportunity that arises where I can get inside King’s head, I will GRAB with two hands.
Secret Windows was initially suggested as a kind of sequel to On Writing. I wouldn’t necessarily put it into that bracket. It’s more like a random collection of different essays, short stories and introductions he has written for books, like John Fowles’ The Collector and Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door.
And that was my only real issue with this one. I’ve already read both of those introductions, as I’ve read those books. I’ve already read his introduction to Night Shift. And I’ve already read Danse Macabre, so I’ve read his piece on horror fiction. Oh, and a story from Everything’s Eventual — In the Death Room — is included in here too. And guess what? I’ve read that one before as well!
So technically I had already encountered maybe 60% of this book before. But for me, it was worth it for the other 40%. I love when King talks about his writing process or his books, and there’s a few little speeches or Q&As included in here that just had me fangirling to the max.
There was also a novella titled The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet which was pretty good, if a little long-winded, and weirdly reminded me of the novella Rat in If It Bleeds. But hey, guess what, during my research I found that it’s actually in Skeleton Crew — one of the few Kings I haven’t read yet!
But Secret Windows is worth it for the typical King anecdotes. There’s an essay entitled “Great Hookers I Have Known” where he discusses great opening lines. He mentions that all of his kids are writers, but he thinks Joe will grow up to be the one who makes a living from it, and I enjoyed seeing that that was his prediction, even back in 1987 (this year is my approximation as Owen was 10 years old!)
Not one I’d recommend for a casual King fan, but worth a place on any die-hard Constant Reader’s shelf. 3.5 stars. . more
I loved this! Not only because it was an amazing find, but because Stephen King’s forwords, afterwords and addresses to us, his “Constant Readers” are sometimes what I look forward to as much as his newest novel, but because I hadn’t even known some of these existed until I happened upon this in the local used book shop.
I never tire of “Uncle Stevie’s” speeches, lectures, essays and letters. The man can spin a yarn, tell a tale and move my heart! Every single time.
This collection of various bits of Stephen King’s writing offer up some of his writing advice. Included are a few short stories — the first being one of his stories written as a child, which was a heartening piece to read because you realize that yes, he wrote just as badly as I did back when I was that age. The second was «The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet,» which I originally read in Skeleton Crew, and is an interesting commentary on writing and writers and madness in general. The third was «I This collection of various bits of Stephen King’s writing offer up some of his writing advice. Included are a few short stories — the first being one of his stories written as a child, which was a heartening piece to read because you realize that yes, he wrote just as badly as I did back when I was that age. The second was «The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet,» which I originally read in Skeleton Crew, and is an interesting commentary on writing and writers and madness in general. The third was «In the Deathroom,» which I read as part of Everything’s Eventual: 14 Dark Tales, which had very little to do with writing and may have been included as being «the first time in print!» (it was originally released as part of an audiobook collection) rather than anything to do with the craft of writing, which unfortunately made it a poor fit for this collection.
Also included were over 100 pages from Danse Macabre, which felt just as long to read as they did the first time around (I found that book super boring). My favorite bits were the introductions to other books and the transcribed talks he did at various venues. Because these are all pulled together from various sources, I found that it became a little repetitive (King offers the comparison of English teachers being like Pavlov’s dogs more than once, and also relays his quip answer to the question, «Where do you get your ideas?» as «Utica» more than once).
Of course, I’ve already read his On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, and that really is the best writing book I’ve ever read, so this could never measure up to that. Still, it’s been a while since I read anything of his and it was a nice reminder of his immense talent. I have to say, I’ve had this book sitting on my shelf for about eight years now, given to me by a co-worker’s husband who is an avid collector, and I breathed a huge sigh of relief that I can now finally return it. I wonder if he remembers that I borrowed it. . more
This book is marketed as a companion to King’s spectacular craft memoir On Writing. That is being way too generous. This particular book-of-the-month club exclusive is by no means up to that standard. This is a collection of random pieces, most of which can be found elsewhere: the foreword to Night Shift, the «Horror Fiction» chapter from Danse Macabre, various notes to introduce books-of-the-month, introductions for The Girl Next Door and The Collectors, interviews, and other such things.
There This book is marketed as a companion to King’s spectacular craft memoir On Writing. That is being way too generous. This particular book-of-the-month club exclusive is by no means up to that standard. This is a collection of random pieces, most of which can be found elsewhere: the foreword to Night Shift, the «Horror Fiction» chapter from Danse Macabre, various notes to introduce books-of-the-month, introductions for The Girl Next Door and The Collectors, interviews, and other such things.
There are a few original items, a couple of short stories («The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet» is much stronger than «In the Deathroom»), and a couple of essays. If you are a Stephen King fan, the book is worth reading for a bit of an insight into King’s life and his process. It is particularly interesting to read about Joe and Owen in light of what they have done since this book was published. It’s fun to read a couple of stories from a very young Stephen writing for his brother’s neighborhood paper. That being said, if you are looking for something the caliber of On Writing, I’ll tell you right now that it isn’t here. The closest thing might be the Introduction by Peter Straub, which attempts to analyze King’s ability to connect with readers.
Pick it up if you are interested, but understand it is more like the DVD extras on a movie or the liner notes of an album, only as fulfilling as your own interest level. . more
Stephen King, On Writing/Secret Windows (Scribner’s, 2000 and BOMC, 2000) [originally posted 6Nov2000]
«Most of the things you find in books on writing are bullshit.» How can you not like a book on writing that begins so endearingly? Shortly after, King makes a promise to keep the book as short as possible, and for King, he does an admirable job (it weighs in under 300 pages, a short story for this guy). Capitalizing on the publication of On Writing, Book of the Month Club (who are the behind-the-s Stephen King, On Writing/Secret Windows (Scribner’s, 2000 and BOMC, 2000) [originally posted 6Nov2000]
«Most of the things you find in books on writing are bullshit.» How can you not like a book on writing that begins so endearingly? Shortly after, King makes a promise to keep the book as short as possible, and for King, he does an admirable job (it weighs in under 300 pages, a short story for this guy). Capitalizing on the publication of On Writing, Book of the Month Club (who are the behind-the-scenes orchestrators of the Stephen King Book Club) contracted with the man to release a companion volume to it called Secret Windows as well.
Much of what King writes in On Writing is simple common sense («the adverb is not your friend. «), but some of it flies in the face of conventional wisdom. King is a situational writer as opposed to a plotter, and the vast majority of «how to write your novel in days»-style writers’ manuals are written by plotters. This alone makes the book valuable to the struggling author; when everyone’s told you one thing, and it doesn’t work for you, hearing someone validate another way to do things is sometimes the most important thing that can happen to you. And King delivers his advice in simple, straightforward prose, providing examples when necessary (at the very end, he gives us the opening paragraphs of Blood and Smoke’s «1408,» both in rough and finished drafts, and it’s probably the best example of revision I’ve seen in a how-to-write book). Good, solid stuff, probably the best I’ve read in recent years, since Natalie Goldberg’s first two books.
But even that isn’t what makes this book shine. We’re all aware that much of what separates great writers from run-of-the-mill hacks is the ability to take one’s own events and make mincemeat of them on the page. The first hundred pages of this volume are an encapsulated autobiography of King. It’s impressionist, deadpan, as minimal as it can be to give us an idea of where all these books came from (no, he doesn’t really get his ideas in Utica). And while all of King’s writing is marked with a particular kind of honesty that resonates with the average reader, these hundred pages stand out. If it’s possible to be more than completely honest, he’s done it.
Secret Windows is a compilation. Most of it’s been previously published. There are a few things here that bear re-reading, a few unpublished (and perhaps should have remained that way, such as the early stuff from his brother’s homemade newspaper), and one of King’s early attempts at a one-voice tale, a style he mastered in Dolores Claiborne, called «The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet.» I can’t remember whether this made it into Nightmares and Dreamscapes or not (can’t find a full listing of N&D’s contents online) [ed. note 2013: no], but if not, this story alone, about an editor’s slow descent into alcoholic madness, with its catalyst a story by an already-insane writer, is worth the price of admission. It is not an easily-forgotten piece of work.
Taken together, the two make a good pair: a book on how to write and a collection of fiction, nonfiction, and interviews dealing with the craft of writing. The average non-writing Stephen King fan may be left cold, but for the writer (or the writer wannabe who’s never attempted; if you liked Misery better than most King novels, you qualify), they’re gold nuggets in the river.
On Writing: **** Secret Windows: *** ½ . more
When I showed my dad the copy of Blockade Billy I’d bought when it first came out, this little $14 hardcover consisting of two short stories, he snorted and said, «That looks like a cleaning-out-the-drawer kind of book.»
Secret Windows is the same.
This is a collection more for the King completionist than the aspiring writer looking for good advice. Peter Straub calls it a companion book to On Writing in the introduction, and this terribly misleading. There was no eureka moment like I had reading When I showed my dad the copy of Blockade Billy I’d bought when it first came out, this little $14 hardcover consisting of two short stories, he snorted and said, «That looks like a cleaning-out-the-drawer kind of book.»
Secret Windows is the same.
This is a collection more for the King completionist than the aspiring writer looking for good advice. Peter Straub calls it a companion book to On Writing in the introduction, and this terribly misleading. There was no eureka moment like I had reading On Writing. This is a collection of a few essays, padded out with introduction from other books and interviews from events King has spoken at. Over a 100 pages of this is from a section of Danse Macabre, which I skipped because I want to read that book in its entirety and not a chunk of it here and the rest later. And most of the interviews I had already read in another nonfiction book Bare Bones: Conversations with Stephen King. Skipping those and the 100 pages of Danse Macabre left little new content, though I mostly enjoyed what litter there was.
Secret Windows was not a bad book, per se. As a King collector, I’m happy to have it on my shelves, but I can’t help but feel somewhat disappointed.
If you haven’t read the interviews or the transcribed talks, you’ll probably get more out of this than I did.
Известный писатель по имени Мортон Рейни разводится с женой и решает переехать в небольшой город Тэшмор-Глен, расположенном в штате Мэн. Однажды к писателю приходит незнакомец, который обвиняет его в плагиате. Перечитывая рукописи «Джон Шустер. «Секретное окно, секретный сад», оставленные незнакомцем, Мортон понимает, что большая их часть схожа с рассказом «Посевной сезон», написанным в 1979 году. Мортону Рейни приходится срочно искать доказательства того, что он является автором этого произведения, а плагиатором он не является.
