Tuesday, May 22, 2007
An Appreciation of Crime Novelist Patricia Highsmith
By Maria Alvarez in the Telegraph:
"Highsmith's understanding of the unconscious and the irrational, coupled with her lucid prose and sophisticated mastery of suspense, are the reasons why many see her as having elevated crime fiction to an art form." ...
"She created unsympathetic protagonists: the seriously unhinged or the dully melancholic. Her endings are rarely predictable; the action is often a demented loop. Victims turn into stalkers, stalkers turn into victims, murders are botched, the eccentric can be harmless or insane. We are anxious because we have no way of knowing: the world is out of control."
Labels: crime fiction, fiction, highsmith, novelist, patricia highsmith
