Patricia Highsmith, 74, (1921-1995) writer
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Patricia Highsmith (19th January 1921 - 4th February 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer best known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels based on the character of Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing derived influence from existentialist literature, and interrogated notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.[
Highsmith is as fascinating as her books. She is a great intellect but she has to be asked smart questions to elicit intellectual answers otherwise her answers will be as short as the thought behind the question asked. That's how it should be because her expectation of an interviewer is to be asked intelligent questions. The great thing about Highsmith and her work is that she is very philosophical and that makes her writing timeless.
Monique Douglas I think that several qualities make her writing timeless... audacious & suspenseful stories, stories in which the anti-hero literally gets away w murder, much to our distress & delight. Her originality is audacious, psychologically deep, & seemingly endless. Her dialogues are realistic, not without style, but, as s.o. does say, she is a writer “of stealth”. She hides within the core of the action. She’s difficult but irresistible. I like the interviewer’s questions. They are prickly.
I found myself wishing the interview asked her deeper and more enthusiastic questions. 😂
Thank you so so much for this ! This is gold dust !
Thank you for this rare interview.
Amazing insight in the mind of Patricia Highsmith, a unique, disturbing, fascinating crime writer 🌿
I miss her so much!
Hi, this is such a great piece. I’m trying to understand though -it's a movie plus an interview combined and sounds as though they shot footage of her being stalked. 😂 Are there any more moments from this interview/piece that still exist?
Susannah Clapp's comments are at worst ridiculous and at best banal. If Highsmith is not literary, as Clapp purports, then nor is George Orwell who writes in a similarly simple but crystal clear style. Just because a style is simple doesn't mean it's not literary. As Orwell himself pointed out, it is the hardest thing in the world to write simply, like a Chandler or a Hemingway. Clapp also says Highsmith is a writer of stealth, of menace. I don't know what a writer of stealth is...that's absolutely meaningless. But yes she is a writer of menace...she is writing about criminals and criminals are menacing, particularly murderers...but that's hardly enlightening. And then Clapp goes on to say that she would compare Highsmith to Ruth Rendell, a writer of much lesser talent in my opinion. I would compare Highsmith to the only writer who approaches the same psychological territory as her: Dostoyevsky. She is in his class, forget Rendell. Like Dostoyevsky, Highsmith is investigating the psyches of her characters and her achievement in doing so has been nothing short of artistically remarkable in the same way Hitchcock has performed a similar examination on film. It's no easy feat to reveal bare the mind of a murderer and to investigate motive at a psychological level, something that few writers have achieved since the novel was born.
One dimensional Ripley . More of a
cypher than a character . The idea that he " developed " is quite bizarre. How on earth Highsmith duped the English into thinking she was a " great writer " is the real mystery . !
Interesting Lady
Saw her house in Tegna today
Bought the biographie yesterday.
Cool!
Frog Green Andrew Wilson one ?
Pity about the small minded interviewer
New London Writers I disagree. He poses questions that force her to justify her storied choices.
But Bragg is monumental