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Short and sweet, Richard Connell's 'The Most Dangerous Game' reads
as well as it did when it was written nearly a century years ago. A
model in lean prose that sticks to the story without unnecessary
embellishment, Connell's masterpiece manages to expose weighty
issues of war, ecology, and human nature that remain relevant
today. There is no preaching here - simply a well-told tale. This
little gem set the foundation for decades of authors and
screenwriters who've picked up on the basic man-hunter theme. At
half the price of a movie, "The Most Dangerous Game" is worth a
detour back to one of the key building blocks of modern pop
fiction.
The most dangerous game is a tense story pitting man against man
and the hunted against the hunter. Sanger Rainsford falls from a
yacht on route to Rio de Janeiro to hunt jaguars. He manages to
swim to a nearby island, but there the hunter becomes the hunted.
When the famous hunterSanger Rainsford is stranded on an island in
the Caribbean, he soon learns to his horror which prey is the most
dangerous game. "The Most Dangerous Game" been often collected in
anthologies, often referenced in writing manuals, and adapted for
the big screen more than a dozen times. This collection also
includes Hemingway's "The Killers," Saki's "Sredni Vashtar,"
London's "To Build a Fire," "The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,"
"The Country of the Blind," and the classic thrillers "Captain
Rogers" and "Leiningen versus the Ants."
"The Most Dangerous Game" is Richard Connell's best known story and
has spawned many imitations and a number of film adaptations.
Der amerikanische Autor Richard Connell publizierte im Januar 1924
seine erfolgreiche Kurzgeschichte The Most Dangerous Game," die
mehrfach als Filmvorlage diente. Nicht nur, dass Ulf Kreth dieses
Werk erstmalig ins Deutsche ubersetzt hat, er hat es ebenso in Das
grausamste Spiel" eigenen Vorstellungen entsprechend adaptiert. Wie
im Original, so strandet auch in seiner Neubearbeitung der
Amerikaner Rainsford auf einer Karibikinsel, die einem reichen und
exzentrischen Russen, General Zaroff, gehort. Zaroff ist wie sein
unerwarteter Gast leidenschaftlicher Jager und hat auf der Insel
ein Schloss errichten lassen. Das dient ihm als Ausgangspunkt fur
die grosste Herausforderung, die er sich als Jager wunschen kann:
der Jagd auf Menschen. Als Rainsford das Angebot des Generals
ablehnt, gemeinsam mit diesem zu jagen, wird er plotzlich selbst
zur begehrten Beute des Russen. Ein Spiel um Leben und Tod beginnt
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