La lotteria - 9788845934315

La lotteria: Il racconto da cui è nata la leggenda di Shirley Jackson è stato molte cose. Il testo più letto nella lunga e gloriosa storia del «New Yorker», ad esempio, e la storia che ha inaugurato una stagione nuova del gotico americano. Ora, grazie alla matita di Miles Man, la lotteria si trasforma in qualcosa di ancora diverso: una partitura visiva, dove il disegno e la precisione rivelano un volto inedito del terrore.
Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" closely resembles Orson Welles's infamous radio reading of the War of the Worlds. Fame not undeserved, since the publication in the "New Yorker" in 1949, sparked a pandemonium. Many took it literally, reacting instantly and then for a long time with indignant or terrified missives to the newsroom. Some things couldn't, they shouldn't have happened. Yet the story presents itself in all innocence as a pure and simple description of the lottery that takes place in the almost idyllic pastoral atmosphere of a New England village on a bright June morning, as every year since time immemorial. But at the end of this story, like the others who make up the intense sylloge proposed here, the reader will discover for himself, in a crescendo of "subdued and progressive chills" - as Dorothy Parker said what makes them classics of terror. According to another illustrious admirer of Jackson, as well as master of the genre, Stephen King, they are because "they end up with a turn that leads straight into a dark alley".