The Veldt is the story of Ray Bradbury , published on September 23, 1950 in The Saturday Evening Post and reprinted in 1951 in The Man in Pictures . The original title of the story is “ The World the Children Made ”.
Content
Story
In the automated house "Everything for happiness", filled with machines that do everything for people: from cooking to tying shoelaces - the family lives. Two children, Peter and Wendy (their names are a tribute to Peter Pen and Wendy Darling ), are fascinated by the children's room, which can reproduce any place that they represent.
Parents, George and Lydia, begin to suspect that something is wrong with the nursery. They are worried that it is a Veld: wild Africa with lions eating carcasses, they believe, of animals. They also find their things recreated there and hear strange familiar sounds. Surprised why their children are so keen on death scenes, they decide to call a psychologist.
Psychologist David McClean suggested they leave the house, go to the village and become more independent. The children begged their parents to let them visit the children's room at least once: the room replaced them with real parents. They lived for the room. Parents gave in and were allowed to spend one minute in the nursery. When they entered the room to pick up the children, Peter and Wendy closed them outside. David McClean, who appeared on the doorstep soon, found children in the room enjoying a lunch in the Welde, and in the distance eating lions. The reader understands that George and Lydia died at the hands of their own children, who so often represented lions eating their parents, that it became a reality.
Adaptations
- In 1987, the film Veld (dir. Nazim Tulyakhodzhaev) was released in the USSR, in which several stories of Ray Bradbury are intertwined. The film was called "the first Soviet horror film."
- In 2007, the BBC released a radio version of The Veldt , which aired on BBC Radio 4 .
- In 2012, Canadian musician deadmau5 released the song “ The Veldt ” to the words of Chris James, Ray Bradbury did not live up to the release of the clip: he died on June 5, 2012, the song was released in August [1] .
Links
- The text of the story translated by L. Zhdanov
- "Veld (short story)" on the site " Fantasy Laboratory "
Notes
- ↑ THE VELDT by DEADMAU5 . SongFacts.com . Date of treatment August 15, 2018.