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Patricia Highsmith

Autor Patricia Highsmith Editat de Joan Schenkar
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 dec 2010

Considerăm că adevărata geneză a tensiunii psihologice din literatura secolului XX nu poate fi înțeleasă pe deplin fără a plonja în intimitatea acestor jurnale inedite. Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks ne deschide ușa spre apartamentul din Manhattan al anilor '40, unde o tânără absolventă de la Barnard College își disciplinează mintea pentru a deveni „poeta anxietății”. Notăm cu interes cum, între 1941 și 1950, Patricia Highsmith nu doar că își exersează stilul, ci își trăiește propriile drame care vor alimenta mai târziu obsesiile unor personaje iconice. Această ediție condensată ne permite să asistăm la momentul în care ideea pentru Strangers on a Train prinde contur, cu mult înainte ca Alfred Hitchcock să o transforme într-un reper cinematografic. Merită menționat că jurnalele surprind și curajul scrierii sub pseudonimul Claire Morgan pentru Carol, într-o epocă în care „iubirea care nu îndrăznește să își spună pe nume” era un risc profesional major. Pe același raft cu biografia Beautiful Shadow de Andrew Wilson, dar cu un accent pe vocea directă, brută și nefiltrată a autoarei, acest volum funcționează ca un laborator de idei. Spre deosebire de manualul său tehnic, Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction, unde Highsmith analizează mecanismele genului, jurnalele ne arată „acul de oțel” al observației sale aplicat propriei vieți. Ritmul este unul confesiv, marcat de o onestitate tăioasă care explică de ce opera sa a influențat atât de profund beletristica polițistă. Este o experiență de lectură care transformă cititorul într-un observator al procesului creativ, oferind contextul necesar pentru a înțelege cum s-a născut amoralitatea fascinantă a lui The Talented Mr Ripley.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780393080131
ISBN-10: 0393080137
Pagini: 644
Dimensiuni: 167 x 243 x 50 mm
Greutate: 1.06 kg
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care doresc să descopere mecanismele psihologice din spatele marilor romane de suspans. Veți câștiga o perspectivă rară asupra New York-ului boem din anii '40 și veți înțelege cum experiențele personale ale unei scriitoare nonconformiste au modelat literatura noir modernă. Este documentul esențial pentru oricine vrea să treacă dincolo de ficțiune, direct în mintea unei creatoare care a refuzat să se supună normelor sociale.


Despre autor

Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) a fost o figură centrală a literaturii americane, celebră pentru capacitatea de a sonda zonele obscure ale psihicului uman. De-a lungul unei cariere de cinci decenii, a publicat 22 de romane, fiind consacrată de succesul volumului Strangers on a Train și de celebra serie The Talented Mr Ripley. Recunoscută pentru abordările sale existențialiste și pentru chestionarea moralității convenționale, Highsmith a scris și The Price of Salt (Carol), un text revoluționar pentru literatura LGBTQ+. Stilul său, descris de Graham Greene drept „poezia neliniștii”, a generat peste două duzini de adaptări cinematografice memorabile.


Descriere scurtă

The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction by Joan Schenkar, situating Highsmith's classic works within her own tumultuous life, this book provides a useful guide to some of her most dazzlingly seductive writing. Strangers on a Train (1950), transformed into a legendary film by Alfred Hitchcock, displays Highsmith's genius for psychological characterization and tortuous suspense, while The Price of Salt (1952), with its lesbian lovers and a creepy PI, provides a thrilling and highly controversial depiction of the love that dare not speak its name. Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories firmly establishes Highsmith's centrality to American culture by presenting key works that went on to influence a half-century of literature and film. Abandoned by the wider reading public in her lifetime, Highsmith finally gets the canonical recognition that is her due.

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'My secrets - the secrets that everyone has - are here, in black and white.'

Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; before Carol became a cult classic of romantic obsession, who was Patricia Highsmith?

Beginning in 1941 and encompassing Highsmith's adventurous twenties, The New York Years is an intimate self-portrait of a young artist, reading voraciously and honing her craft, intertwined with scenes from her dizzying social life, rife with sleepless nights spent in the queer bars of Greenwich Village.

This condensed edition of Highsmith's monumental Diaries and Notebooks offers all the pleasures of her fiction, along with an unparalleled insight into the life, mind and times of this enigmatic, iconic, trailblazing author.

'One of the most observant and ecstatic accounts . . . about being young and alive in New York City' New York Times

Recenzii

The whole book is excellent. Highsmith is pointed and dry about herself and everything else. But the early chapters are special. They comprise one of the most observant and ecstatic accounts I've read - and it's a crowded field! - about being young and alive in New York City
Offers the most complete picture ever published of how Highsmith saw herself
One of the finest writers in the English language
One of the literary highlights of 2021
I don't think I've ever met a person as troubling or intelligent, frustrating and frustrated, and triumphantly alone. A master diarist as much as novelist. Highsmith's Her Diaries and Notebooks are a portrait of a time, a long passage from the forties to the nineties, and you've never travelled on this perspective before
Highsmith's astonishing candour in the witness stand of her personal notebooks, and heartbreaking self-exposures in the jury box of her diaries, are like nothing else in American confessional literature
I love Highsmith so much. What a revelation her writing was
Few writers fathomed with such intensity the dark places of the human mind
There is no one quite like Highsmith
Highsmith was every bit as deviant and quirky as her mischievous heroes, and didn't seem to mind if everyone knew it
Opens a window onto this extraordinary writer's inner life and working methods . . . a welcome addition to the work of a most eccentric genius
The quippiness of the journals is a delight, few can sum up the creative life this deliciously
Provides stunning access to the mind of a notoriously secretive author
[Her Diaries and Notebooks] testify to the recalcitrant, unrelenting spirit of this great American curmudgeon and gifted crime writer
A quarter century after the death of novelist Highsmith (1921-1995), fans are given a fascinating and unprecedented look into the 'playground for her imagination' . . . Devotees and historians alike will linger over every morsel
Disclosures from a meticulously documented life. . . An admirably edited volume for scholars and voracious fans
A vivid portrait of a driven, impassioned, brutal and remarkably singular person, with a vast appetite for women, alcohol and - above all - her work
Here comes Patricia Highsmith at last, striding out of the closet, in her own words . . . A frank, and frankly disturbing, portrait of a writer who concealed the personal sources of her work for her entire life
As well as the late-night parties, alcohol and short-lived love affairs, we see a serious writer at work, determined to resist being pigeonholed
Patricia Highsmith's diaries are something to behold, She is deliciously eccentric and droll, her romances always threaded with bitterness and lust
These secret diaries take us inside Patricia Highsmith's brilliant yet twisted mind . . . Here then, laid out for us, is the private life Highsmith transmuted into fiction, into those great novels in which innocence and guilt, good and evil meld into one another so alarmingly
An unguarded portrait of a young woman taking the first tentative steps into the worlds of sex and literary endeavour . . . a capacious portrait of a complex author and a compelling coming-of-age story
Offers insights into the thriller writer's many passions and creative intellect
Keep them beside the bed, dip into them each night. And read them you must. Magnificent
Highsmith likens herself to "a steel needle", and her insights puncture complacency as if piercing flesh. She is the murderer, and we are all the victims