Release | Stephen King

"Emancipation" is the Arabic translation of the novel by the most famous American writer Stephen King, titled "Elevation," translated into Arabic by Oleg Ouki. Published by the Arab Scientific Publishers in 2019. In his new novel "Emancipation," the American writer Stephen King highlights his ability to combine deep dramatization in exploring the worlds of illness, with vivid expressive language capturing the details of both sensory and abstract pain. He presents us with a strange situation involving the mysterious protagonist's loss of weight. "Scott Carey," who lives in the town of Castle Rock, Maine, and whose wife has left him alone, finds no choice but to confide his secret to his trusted friend, retired doctor "Bob Alice." While trying to fight the disease with his close friend, his sudden weight loss increases daily, losing a kilogram every day. Scott Carey is awaiting the zero hour, as all analyses have failed to explain the origin of the illness... Was he exposed to some radiation? Or did he inhale a bad insecticide? Or perhaps a strange germ entered a wound, or a rare virus he inhaled? As Scott Carey's feeling of being on the brink of life intensifies, and with the futility of treatment, he still insists on hiding his illness except from some close friends, including Mira, Dr. Alice's wife, and the two married women, Derdri and Misi, who run a restaurant in downtown on Carbine Street. These are the ones who witnessed his illness—either his end or his liberation from the material world to the spiritual world... when his body left the earth toward the sky. Darkness prevailed; somewhere above them, Scott Carey continued his emancipation, his liberation from the deadly grip of planet Earth, turning his face toward the stars. Did novelist Stephen King intend in this novel to symbolize self-awareness with its infinite solitude and voluntary emancipation beyond the boundaries of the body? Or is he directing his discourse scientifically toward astronauts who are still experiencing weightlessness while orbiting the moon, as they are not subjected to gravity, when he quotes scientist "Vokner": "Gravity is the anchor that pulls us to our graves"? Whatever the intention, novelist Stephen King built in "Emancipation" a pure imagination of an opposite in the story unlike any other literary work. Therefore, this work can only be seen as a new qualitative value added to his successful literary career.