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Ken Follett (June 5th 1949 -) is a writer Welsh particularly of thrillers political.

He was born with Cardiff. He obtains a license of philosophy to the University College of London. After the university, he works as a journalist in Cardiff then in London where he starts to write. In 1978, its novel the weapon with the eye becomes a bestseller for which it will receive Edgar of the Authors of the detective novels of America.

A cinematographic cutting

Several characteristics explain the effectiveness of the historical novels of Ken Follett:

  • the quality of the historical documentation joined together for each novel. Besides the author thanks the documentalists who collated these documents.
  • the “journalistic” style of writing of Ken Follett privileges detailed descriptions of the situations to the development of the psychology of the characters.
This narrative technique reveals the characters “in hollow”. Their personality, ever described, is deduced by the reader from the detail from the situations. Consequence of this method, the psychology of the characters is reduced to a feature dominating. The sadists remain sadistic and the decent people remain it until the silly thing. This writing, which improves memorizing of the characters, makes also foreseeable of many reactions, attenuating of this fact the emotion produced by the novelist.
  • the articulation of the novel made follow one another of the situations concerning the various characters of the intrigue. These characters, separate and without apparent report/ratio in the first chapters, approach with the wire the pages to meet in a final outcome.
  • to amplify and instigate this convergence, the author modifies his cutting with the wire of the novel. The first scenes grant a complete chapter to each character, the last more and more frequently rock of character with character, expressing the increase in the tension of the action.

The narrative technique developped at the point by Ken Follet in its novels is thus perfectly contemporary. It is attached to the writing of the cinema and the televised series. Very visual narrative effects with detailed descriptions, easily memorable psychology of the characters, cutting accelerating gradually until the final outcome.

This model of novel can also approach the novels of Christian Jacq located in Egypt or even of the production of Gerard de Villiers in his series SAS.

Works

Catalog of films

  • 1981 - the weapon with the eye (Eye off the needle) - Realizer: Richard Marquand
  • 1985 - the Code Rebecca (The key to Rebecca) - Realizer: David Hemmings
  • 1986 - As a flight of eagles (One wings off eagles) - Realizer: Andrew V. McLaglen
  • 1994 - Lions of Panshir (Dregs Down with Lions) - Realizer: Jim Goddard
  • 1997 - the Third Twin (The third twin) - Realizer: Tom McLoughlin

Bonds external

  • the official site of Ken Follett
  • Ken Follett on IMDb

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