Daisy Johnson in the footsteps of Stephen King

VOICI A hotel in which you would plan to spend your vacation. However, Beautiful architecture, eager staff, bucolic setting. Furthermore, Only here, the house “Is an obscure archive, a large collector. Therefore, She knows everything about those who cross its doors, and reads in them ”. However, British novelist Daisy Johnson is walking here in the steps of Stephen King. In addition, It is impossible. Meanwhile, by browsing certain scenes from the novel, not to think of the overlook of Shininghis ghosts, the waves of blood that invade him: “In the hallway corridor, the water first arises under the doors and then poured through the lock holes. »»

But this collection of news connected to each other by the frightening building frees from this heritage. not without paying him a brilliant tribute, by exploring the question of the feminine. The first narrator is accused of witchcraft and drowned in a pond. “I will come back soon”she serious on the door of her house. The dry pond, the hotel is built in its place. But the woman returns with the procession of perils that haunt this Gothic and pop text. The dangers prowl, concentrated around room 63, echo of the “room 237” of the daisy johnson footsteps stephen king hotel of Shining. Not everyone can perceive the bad vibrations of the place. but many are those that the hotel devours: maid losing itself there forever, married a unhealthy demonstration of the place, a little girl branding a game companion, kids lost by a plank, old lady persecuted by the voice of a domestic AI …

To discover The kangaroo of the day Answer All the voices of the book are feminine. Because, writes Daisy Johnson, “The hotel is an unknown in an alley”. And the honorable establishment becomes a reflection of the threat that the masculine makes hovering on the feminine: we know him well. he attracts us a lot and he can be great. But if he decides. he has the power to ransack our lives §

“The hotel”by Daisy Johnson, translated from English (Great Britain) by daisy johnson footsteps stephen king Laetitia Devaux (Stock, 192 p., € 19.90).