Memory (Stephen King)

Memory is not released in German language short story by Stephen King, published in July 2006 in the U.S. magazine Tin House.

Content

Edgar Freemantle told by his cruel accident in which he lost an arm. When he regains consciousness, he is aggressive, has gaps in memory and has a speech disorder: He can not use it rightly everyday words. Still in the hospital, he injured his wife with a plastic knife - after she leaves him because he is said to have strangled her, what Edgar does not know anything more. Only later, when he comes to another accident in which a dog is so badly injured that he must die before Edgar's eyes, the memories come back in a flood: the accident with the ambulance, the attack on his wife ...

Origins / Trivia

In February 2006, King was reading even during the Six Days of Opening Nights in Florida his story the first time and made ​​it clear that it is both inspired by his own serious accident and the other a ' trial run ' for his new novel, Duma Key, published in 2008 should.

In interviews on Duma Key King actually describes a nearly identical action: living in Minnesota construction workers Edgar Freemantle had a serious accident in which he loses an arm. When he unexpectedly awakens from his coma, he suffers from memory loss and uncontrollable tantrums, so that his wife can finally be divorced him. Shortly before the suicide Edgar consulted a psychiatrist, who advised him to take up his old hobby of drawing again. Edgar discovers his talent again, but he can do more than draw. He finds out that he is into drawing things in the real world and can herausradieren from her. Duma Key is the name of a mysterious island that appears to be responsible for Edgars supernatural gift.

The short story is ( Blaze german) with printed in the original version of Richard Bach 's novel torment as an attachment.

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