The Regulators (Hörbuch)

Portal: Desperation und Regulator

The Regulators
Originaltitel	The Regulators
Herausgabe (orig.)	März 2009/2016
Verlag (orig.)	Penguin Audio
Länge	ca. 9 bzw 12 Stunden
Anzahl CDs	8
Leser (Original)	Kate Nelligan/Frank Muller
Rezensionen
ISBN 978-0-14-314391-8
Hörbücher
Englische Hörbücher Deutsche Hörbücher

Das Original-Hörbuch zu Richard Bachmans Roman The Regulators liegt in zwei Versionen vor, einer gekürzten und einer erweiterten.

Die gekürzte Version

King und Kürzungen

Die gekürzte Version ist eine Besonderheit insofern, als es die (bislang) einzige Vertonung eines King-Romans ist, die ausdrücklich als "gekürzt" vermarktet wird.
Bei den Hörbüchern zu Desperation zu Full Dark, No Stars und zu Thinner liegen ebenfalls Kürzungen vor, die jedoch nicht als solche ausgewiesen sind.
Üblicherweise autorisiert King solche Kürzungen nicht und bezeichnet sie als "das Allerletzte".

Die Kürzungen

Die Kürzungen sind von Eve Beglarian vorgenommen, die immer wieder an King-Hörbüchern mitarbeitet (wie auch hier: Produktion und/oder Musik) und die diese so vornahm, dass sie tatsächlich das Verständnis des Textes nicht behindern.

Einerseits sind die Kürzungen unabdingbar – die für den Roman charakteristischen Einschübe (siehe auch Regulator: Einschübe und Regulator: Inhaltsangabe) bestehen teilweise aus (Kinder-)Zeichnungen, deren Umsetzung in Worte wohl eher albern gewirkt hätte. Zum anderen finden sich aber auch enorme Kürzungen von Textpassagen.

Die Einschübe

Hier ein Überblick über die Vorgehensweise bei den verschiedenen Einschüben:

Einschub	Art des Einschubs	Auf dem Hörbuch
1	Postkarte von William Garin	fehlt
2	Zeitungsbericht von der Ermordung der Familie Garin	fehlt
3	Kritik des Westerns Die Regulatoren	fehlt
4	Bericht über den Verkauf der Marke MotoKops 2200	fehlt
5	Brief von Audrey Wyler an Janice Conroy	gekürzt
6	Auszug aus Originaldrehbuch zu MotoKops 2200	fehlt
7	Zeichnung von Seth Garin	fehlt
8	Auszug aus Audrey Wylers Tagebuch	gekürzt
9	Auszug aus Originaldrehbuch zu Die Regulatoren	fehlt
10	Auszug aus Audrey Wylers Tagebuch	gekürzt
11	Allen Symes' erst nach seinem Tod zu öffnender Brief	gekürzt
12+13	Auszüge aus Audrey Wylers Tagebuch	gekürzt
14	Brief von Patricia Allen an Katherine Anne Goodlow (inkl. Kinderzeichnung)	gekürzt (Bild nicht erwähnt)

Der Text

Als Beispiel für den Umgang mit dem Originaltext hier der Anfang von Kapitel 9 , links das Original, rechts die Kürzung (kursive Passagen wurden eingefügt oder abgeändert):

Original

Gekürzte Fassung

There was no need for Steve and Collie to hop the fence at the far end of Doc's yard; there was a gate, although they had to tear out a fair amount of well-entrenched ivy before they could use it. They exchanged words only twice before reaching the path. The first time it was Steve who spoke. He looked around at the trees - scrubby, weedy-looking things, for the most part, now mysterious with the rustle of rainwater dripping off the leaves - and then asked: 'Are these poplars?' Collie, who had been working his way around a particularly vicious clump of thornbushes, looked back at him. 'Say what?' 'I asked if these trees are poplars. Since Poplar Street is where we came from, I just wondered.' 'Oh.' Collie looked around doubtfully, swapping the .30-.06 from one hand to the other and then running an arm across his forehead. It was very hot in the greenbelt. 'I don't know if they're poplars or pines or goddam eucalyptuses, to tell you the truth. Botany was never my thing. That one over there is a skinny-ass birch, and that's about all I know on the subject.' With that, he started off again. Five minutes later (Steve wondering by now if there really was a path back here, or only wishful thinking), Collie stopped. He looked back past Steve, his eyes so intense that Steve turned himself to see what he was looking at. He saw nothing but the tangled greenery through which they had already made their way. No sign of Old Doc's house; the Jacksons', either. He could see a tiny wedge of red that he thought might be the chimney atop the Carver house, but that was all. They almost could have been a hundred miles from the nearest human habitation. Thinking that - and realizing it was a true thought - gave Steve a chill. 'What?' he asked, thinking the cop would ask him why they couldn't hear any cars, not even some kid's glasspack-equipped low-rider, or a single bass-powered sound-system, or a motorcycle, or a horn, or a shout, or anything. Instead, Collie said: 'We're losing the light.' 'We can't be. It's only - ' Steve looked at his watch, but it had stopped. The battery had given out, probably; he'd never replaced it since his sister had given it to him for Christmas a couple of years ago. It was odd, though, that it should have stopped just past four o'clock, which had to be not long after the time he had first wheeled into this marvellous little neighborhood. 'Only what?' 'I can't say exactly, my watch has stopped, but just think about it. It can't be much more than five-thirty, five forty-five. Maybe even earlier. Don't they say you overestimate elapsed time when you're in a crisis situation?' 'I don't even know who 'they' are, never have,' Collie said. 'But look at the light. The quality of the light.' Steve did, and yes, the cop had a point. Steve didn't like to admit it, but he did. The light slanted through the tangle (and that was the proper word for it, not greenbelt) in hot red shafts. Red sun at night, sailor's delight, he thought, and suddenly, as if that was a trigger, it all tried to crash in on him, all the things that were wrong, and he couldn't stand it. He raised his hands and clapped them over his eyes, whacking himself a damned good one on the side of the head with the butt of the .22 he was carrying, feeling his bladder go loose, knowing he was close to watering his underwear and not caring. He staggered backward and - from a distance, it seemed - heard Collie Entragian asking if he was okay. With what felt like the greatest effort of his life, Steve said that he was and forced himself to lower his hands, to look into that delirious red light again.

Five minutes into the greenbelt Collie stopped. He looked past Steve, his eyes so intense that Steve himself turned to see what he was looking at. He saw nothing but tangled greenery. They could have been a hundred miles from the nearest human habitation. 'What?' he asked. Collie said: 'We're losing the light.' 'We can't be. It's only - ' Steve looked at his watch, but it had stopped. 'It can't be much more than five-thirty, five forty-five. Don't they say you overestimate elapsed time when you're in a crisis?' 'I don't even know who 'they' are, never have,' Collie said. 'But look at the light.' It slanted through the tangle in hot red shafts. Red sun at night, sailor's delight, Steve thought, and suddenly, as if that was a trigger, it all tried to crash in on him, all the things that were wrong.

Charaktere und sonstiges

• Durch die Kürzungen fallen auch einige der Charaktere in der Audiobuch-Fassung unter den Tisch; hier ein Überblick:
  

Robert Alvarez • Yvonne Bateman • Roxanne Calabrese • Kellie Eberhart • Craig Goodis • John Kleist • John P. Muller • Quentin Woolrich • (Richardson) • Adrian (Givens)

• Auch der Bezug zu Stephen Kings Roman Shining fiel der Schere zum Opfer.

Cover der ungekürzten Version

Die erweiterte Version

Erst 2016 wurde auf Audible eine drei Stunden längere Version veröffentlicht. Diese wurde von Frank Muller gelesen und erst Jahre nach dessen Tod herausgebracht. Für diese Lesung erhielt Muller den "Audio File Magazine Earphones Award".

Die Kürzungen

Es handelt sich weiterhin nicht um eine Komplettlesung. Folgendes fehlt:

• die einleitende Postkarte (auf die immerhin später in einem Brief von Audrey Wyler an Janice Conroy zusammenfassend die Rede ist)
• die Zeichnung von Seth Garin inklusive des Begleittextes nach Kapitel 6
• die Kinderzeichnung, die den Roman abschließt

Weiterführende Links

V E Artikel über Regulator

Roman • Inhaltsangabe (Teil I, Teil II) • Erzählstruktur • Original-Hörbücher • Rezensionen (Roman, Original-Hörbücher) • Verknüpfungen • Coverpage Charaktere (Auswahl): Johnny Marinville • Tak • Steve Ames • Cynthia Smith • Collie Entragian • Cassandra Styles • Seth Garin • Audrey Wyler • Susi Geller • Jim Reed • Jebediah Murdock • Debbie Ross • Janice Conroy • Familie Hobart • Hugh Hobart • Katherine Goodlowe Schauplätze: Poplar Street Sonstiges: Unterschiede zwischen Desperation und Regulator • Desperation • Isolation • Die Regulatoren • MotoKops 2200 • Audreys Zuflucht • Shining