The murder of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford (novel)
The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford ( original title: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ) is a Wild West novel by Ron Hansen from 1983. The book is about the American western hero Jesse James and his assassination by Robert " Bob “Ford on April 3, 1882.
The novel tells the story from the changing perspectives of Jesse James and Bob Ford, both of whom are developed as psychologically complex characters. The text thus breaks with the narrative tradition in which Ford appears only as a coward and villain. As Jesse James is deheroized, Ford’s motivations become understandable. Hansen's novel "inverts the heroic".
In 2006, the novel by director was Andrew Dominik with Brad Pitt as James and Casey Affleck as Ford filmed . The film was nominated for two Academy Awards.
literature
- Ron Hansen : The murder of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford. From the American by Katrine von Hutten and Anne Steeb. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996 ISBN 3100294068 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas J. Haller: "That dirty little coward". The reversal of the heroic in Ron Hansen's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford [1983]. In: heroes. heroes. hero. 3.1 (2015), Faszinosum Antihero . Online at: < https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/fedora/objects/freidok:10949/datastreams/FILE1/content >