*****
Short but intense
This short
novel is the crazy race of a character who in a few hours succeeds in
destroying what remains of his life. Convinced that he was robbed of the woman
he loves, he escapes from the asylum, where he is detained for killing his
father, and in which he is also victim of abuse, to “save her”. But that woman
never shared his feelings. It’s all a creation of his mind.
And the
book represents a journey first of all in the mind of the protagonist, the
discovery of how madness is generated, and the way it drives him to act.
Even this
time, Matheson amazes me with a story completely different from his previous
ones. Through the points of view of the five main characters, through the
personal way in which each one of them interprets the story, one layer at a
time the plot details are revealed. The tone of the whole novel is dramatic,
dotted with violence and death. As a reader, I was worried about the fate of
the victims, but also of the crazy protagonist, who is in his own way a victim
capable of eliciting pity.
The choice
of who kills and who survives in the end is not random. Along with the sinking
of the protagonist into his delirium, the rise of another character and the
redemption of the last victim are revealed.
Fury on Sunday on Amazon.
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