Author: Stephen King
Title: The Institute
Genre: Thriller
Pages: 561
Editorial: Charles Scribner's Sons (First edition: 2019)
Welcome to The Institute
When you think Stephen King is going to stop surprising you he does it again. In which deepless magic drawer does he keep his ideas? After a career of more than four decades, the Maine genius continues to show that he is in top form. The Institute is one of the last examples of this. After a series of novels in which King works a police aspect, surprising in his bibliography, this novel takes the reader back to the author's first stories. The Institute irreparably remembers, while maintaining originality, masterpieces like Carrie. A young character acts as a vector and main protagonist and shakes our imagination with scenes that could only take shape in King's mind.
You already know that in this blog I try to avoid spoilers, so I will not reveal details of the plot. However, I would like to emphasize two aspects that have caught my attention. First of all, as I pointed out, King's return to more supernatural fields is a pleasure, since it is the aspect in which I think he reaches his maximum level. Despite the fact that his crime novels work really well within the thrillers, it is when King transit into those personal worlds where anything is possible when he really connects with the reader. On the other hand, the protagonism of a child in a world surrounded by adults who try to make things more than difficult for him refers back to the masterpieces of the author, in which he manages to shake those who enter his pages, some that you will not be able to stop reading.
Another aspect that has caught my attention powerfully during the course of the reading is the enormous amount of current references with which King impregnates his pages. There are not a few references to President Trump, about whom King has publicly expressed his opposition, but it is precisely this anti-politicalism of the novel that underlies all of it. Social and political criticism is present from start to finish, The Institute being a kind of metaphor for certain government agencies that operate in the shadows and that, without the population being aware, forge all kinds of illegal behavior that, if the great public knew, it would become an instantaneous scandal.
As a farewell, I would like to highlight the enormous work, once again, of the editorials when it comes to making covers and editions of King's works. At a time when selling paper books has become almost a miracle, the brilliant work in reference to the author's covers helps and empowers the reader to be encouraged and determined to get hold of them. The editions of The Institute, in both its English and Spanish versions, are of a beauty that encourages reading and encourages the collecting of its millions of fans. I tell all of them that if they read this novel they will not be disappointed.
You already know that in this blog I try to avoid spoilers, so I will not reveal details of the plot. However, I would like to emphasize two aspects that have caught my attention. First of all, as I pointed out, King's return to more supernatural fields is a pleasure, since it is the aspect in which I think he reaches his maximum level. Despite the fact that his crime novels work really well within the thrillers, it is when King transit into those personal worlds where anything is possible when he really connects with the reader. On the other hand, the protagonism of a child in a world surrounded by adults who try to make things more than difficult for him refers back to the masterpieces of the author, in which he manages to shake those who enter his pages, some that you will not be able to stop reading.
Another aspect that has caught my attention powerfully during the course of the reading is the enormous amount of current references with which King impregnates his pages. There are not a few references to President Trump, about whom King has publicly expressed his opposition, but it is precisely this anti-politicalism of the novel that underlies all of it. Social and political criticism is present from start to finish, The Institute being a kind of metaphor for certain government agencies that operate in the shadows and that, without the population being aware, forge all kinds of illegal behavior that, if the great public knew, it would become an instantaneous scandal.
As a farewell, I would like to highlight the enormous work, once again, of the editorials when it comes to making covers and editions of King's works. At a time when selling paper books has become almost a miracle, the brilliant work in reference to the author's covers helps and empowers the reader to be encouraged and determined to get hold of them. The editions of The Institute, in both its English and Spanish versions, are of a beauty that encourages reading and encourages the collecting of its millions of fans. I tell all of them that if they read this novel they will not be disappointed.
Appreciation Final mark
Description: 3/5Originality: 5/5 8.5
Genre relevance: 4/5
Edition: 4/5
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