Stephen King parle de 11.22.63

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 11.22.63, le dernier roman de Stephen King, raconte l'histoire d'un homme qui voyage dans le temps pour empêcher le meurtre de John F. Kennedy. Il doit paraître le 8 novembre prochain aux Etats-Unis. 
Stephen King revient sur l'écriture de ce livre dans une interview donnée pour le blog Books at Tesco. 

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When and why did you decide to write a novel about the Kennedy assassination? 

I tried to write this novel in 1973 when I was teaching high school. At that time it was called Split Track and I wrote fourteen single-spaced pages. Then I stopped. The research was daunting for someone who was working full-time at another job. Also, I understood I wasn’t ready—the scope was too big for me at that time. I put the book aside and thought someday maybe I’d go back to it. 

I’m glad that I didn’t go forward with it then. In 1973 the wound was still too fresh. Now it’s going on half a century since Kennedy was assassinated. I think that’s about long enough. 

I recently saw Robert Redford’s film The Conspirator about the Lincoln assassination. That was a hundred fifty years ago, but it’s still kind of a shock to see the president of the United States assassinated by a lone gunman.
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