Kurt Waldheim

Pistolero is a Romance of Stephen King of 1982, published in France in 1991, translation of Gerard Lebec.

Titrate original: The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger .

It is the first shutter of the series the Tower Sinks , inspired by a poem of Robert Browning: the Roland Knight was come to the black Tower . This series is often regarded as the best work of Stephen King.

Short summary of the history

" The man in black fled in the desert, and the pistolero the suivait" (first sentence of the novel)

At the beginning of the history, Roland, the last pistolero, walk in a plugging desert. It follows the traces of a mysterious man in black, which appears to be a miracle-worker.

The world of Roland, similar to the Western American, is located in a parallel Univers, which seems to have undergone a great catastrophe. One finds there some vestiges cultural of our world, like the song Hey Jude , a counting rhyme for children, of the extracts of the bible, as well as technological vestiges.

The hard tracking since years, perhaps twenty years… but the true object of the search of Roland is the Dark Tower, centers of all the universes and target of the anger of King Cramoisi.

In his crossing, Roland meets Jake, a young boy in a station. This one died in our world, and awoke in that of Pistolero. This last takes it along with him through the desert and under a mountain, where they must flee of the mutants. Jake becomes the son symbolic system of Roland, but when this one must choose between Jake and the possibility of joining the man in black and the Tour sinks , it decides to give up the child.

Structure of the novel

It is not a question as well of a novel as of a collection of news. It thus has an aspect décousu. This first volume is thus often regarded as weakest of the series.

Stephen King practiced besides a complete revision of this volume, in 2003, in order to order it and to make more human its main character.

Topics

parallel Univers S enters the world of Jake and that of Roland, then later in the series between the many universes connected by the tower.
Allusions to the Bible

Traversée Désert, then arrived in a country Idyllique
Roland deliberately lets die Jake, a young boy met in the desert which it starts to like like a son, just like Abraham agreed to sacrifice his/her son

External bonds

Encyclopédie supplements on the Lathe Sinks

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