and 1976. Robert Neville returns home after a hard day's work. Cooking, cleaning, listening to a disc, sit back and read a book. Yet his is not a normal life. Especially after dark. Why is Neville the last man on Earth. The last human survivor in a world entirely populated by vampires. In the solitude around him, Robert performs his mission, he studied the phenomenon and superstitions surrounding it, seeking new avenues for the extermination of the creatures of darkness. At night Neville if he is holed up in his stronghold, besieged by the living dead greedy of his blood. But with the rising of the sun he is to dominate a cruel game mechanics and ferocity, punctuated by the lights and shadows of the past always equal to itself and which requires the repetition of a bloody ritual. Neville in this world, with its uniqueness, has already become legend. the catastrophe arrives, what to do? Of course, you run away. Here comes the tsunami, we climb the hill! Come the aliens! We escape to the mountains! The city economic collapse, away in the countryside. Here comes the endless winter, we run the South! We escape by boat! And if you do not just build a spaceship and go into space! We escape into another dimension, take refuge in the folds of time!
But there is someone who chooses not to escape. That does not even consider it. That not only remains, but stands alone, with its rhythms and habits, which prevents the end of the world not to send him away from home. And fight alone against the disaster, until the end. This man is Robert Neville, Richard Matheson's literary creation.
I Am Legend is not the best book, although 'the most famous, of Matheson, but it is a milestone in defining the male Mathes.
But there is someone who chooses not to escape. That does not even consider it. That not only remains, but stands alone, with its rhythms and habits, which prevents the end of the world not to send him away from home. And fight alone against the disaster, until the end. This man is Robert Neville, Richard Matheson's literary creation.
I Am Legend is not the best book, although 'the most famous, of Matheson, but it is a milestone in defining the male Mathes.
The male Matheson
dashed Although some excellent female characters, as in the story Prey , Matheson sought to define in its production of long novels his "male". In works such as Duel , I Am Legend and especially in the summa 5 mm per day, his masterpiece In my opinion, Matheson defines a type of man who faces impossible challenges. all the challenges and difficulties are seen by a male and masculine point of view. The protagonist is faced with enemies stronger physically or intellectually gifted means. Must address the powerlessness, betrayal, loneliness, old age. The humiliation of not being able to keep more families, the abandonment by her daughter, dismissal, inadequate, illness, divorce. Faced with this
Matheson always puts a normal man, not a powerful economy and finance tycoon, not a great scientist nor a prodigious intelligence rambo unbeatable. Even its protagonists are original people, writers, artists and more. It is always the average man can not be more than average, which is usually the employee. On the other hand it's always men who believe in the family and do everything to protect her, to take charge, even if the family gives them away.
Man Mathes never surrenders. He sways but does not give up. In the face of whatever remains bruised but standing. never asks for mercy or curse fate or the other accused. With no alibi faces all heads high and do not ever move back to one meter. And all this he does without being a hero or a deus ex machina, but simply because no alternative. It 'done so, he knows only one way to live. Do not choose. Matheson to be unleashed all fear of the male but none of these horrors can to win. And in the end his man, after all, gets up, gun and goes hunting .
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