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Chargement... Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995par Patricia Highsmith
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. While it is interesting to read the curmudgeonly Highsmith recounting her annoyance with people, places and things, it does tire after a bit. Yes, i love her - and you can see her ways in this very plain diary, but it doesn't really go anywhere or add anything. Interesting to read about her world travels and to see the development and reaction to her great books, but there isn't much of that all- that would have been interesting. O well. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Publishing for the centenary of her birth, Patricia Highsmith's diaries "offer the most complete picture ever published" of the canonical author (New York Times). Relegated during her lifetime to the pulpy genre of mystery, Patricia Highsmith has emerged since her death in 1995 as one of "our greatest modernist writers" (Gore Vidal). Presented for the first time, this one-volume assemblage of her diaries and notebooks-posthumously discovered behind Highsmith's linens and culled from more than 8,000 pages by her devoted editor, Anna von Planta-traces the mesmerizing double-life of an artist who "[worked] like mad to be something." Beginning in 1941 during her junior year at Barnard, the diaries exhibit the intoxicating "atmosphere of nameless dread" (Boston Globe) that permeates classics such as Strangers on a Train and the Ripley series. In her skewering of McCarthy-era America, her prickly disparagement of contemporary art, her fixation on love and writing, and ever-percolating prejudices, the famously secretive Highsmith reveals the roots of her psychological angst and acuity. In one of the most compulsively readable literary diaries to publish in generations, at last we see how Patricia Highsmith became Patricia Highsmith"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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