The Gunslinger

Young Roland is the last noble knight in a world that has “shifted out of place.” He must, at all costs, find the Dark Tower—the seat of Power, the cornerstone of the universe. Someday he will locate it, but for now he faces a long and dangerous journey—across a world ruled by black magic, a world from which doors are sometimes opened into our reality…

From the performer:
The “Dark Tower” cycle is widely known and likely doesn’t need any introduction. “The Gunslinger” is, so to speak, its exposition, as we were taught in school. We meet the main character and his antagonist, we witness an exhausting chase, and we learn about the youth of the Gunslinger, Roland Diskayne (when he was figuring out where the stress falls in that name, he was surprised to discover that it isn’t Diskayne at all, but Dishéйн. We’ll leave that to the translators’ conscience). But most of all, we plunge headfirst into the atmosphere of this strange, cruel world, where a white desert sun is replaced by Mordor’s dungeons through which a plainly obvious Clint Eastwood makes his way with his companion. And how happy I am, guys, that “A Picnic at the Edge of the Road” was published ten years earlier than “The Gunslinger,” and Roderick Shukhart is in no way related to the “last crusader” Roland. Otherwise, during reading, suspicions were creeping in…
In short, despite the fact that I had been pushing away the Dark Tower for a long time, it caught up with me anyway. King is undoubtedly an outstanding storyteller, and you can see that even in this relatively calm prologue to the cycle. They say that later everything will become much more wonderful…
Svetа and Lesha helped me with the work—my bow to them.