Re: RARA-AVIS: Highsmith/Ripley

Sonia Abecassis (sabecass@capgemini.fr)
Thu, 12 Feb 1998 00:08:06 +0100 a couple of comments=20
P Highsmith lived most of her life in Switzerland when she passed away ( =
Small G is located in Zurich by the way ) :=20
The rope , shot in 1949, has nothing to do with Ripley; however"Stranger=
s on a train" is based on Highsmith 's novel ; the movie from Ripley is "=
Plein SOleil" by Rene Clement, starring Alain Delon: one should also ment=
ion , I think, the strong homoerotic conotations of the novels, as if Pat=
ricia Highsmith, who never claimed she was a lesbian (but did not deny) "=
channeled" her homosexuality thru Ripley.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Mari Hall <found.dead.in.texas@airmail.net>
=C0 : rara-avis@icomm.ca <rara-avis@icomm.ca>
Date : mercredi 11 f=E9vrier 1998 23:53
Objet : Re: RARA-AVIS: Highsmith/Ripley

>Has anyone read Patricia Highsmith, Ripley???
>I throughly enjoyed re-reading these four books written over a 24 year
>period, starting in 1956. (I found some English reprinted imports with
>nice covers in hardback for about $2.00 US each and snapped them all
>up). This book commences the series and introduces Tom Ripley, a
>nere-do-well who ends up being a "crook" dealing in art works, but more
>of that later. Alfred Hitchcock loved the work of Highsmith, who was,
>BTW, born in Fort Worth, Texas, but lived in England most of her adult
>life. I believe that the movie -Rope- was based on the Ripley character.=
=20
>
>Your turn out there.=20
>--=20
>>From Mari Hall Found.Dead.In.Texas@airmail.net
>whose DOROTHYL nom is Kate Warne the ex-Pinkerton in
>The Woman With the Rose Tattoo by Mari Hall
>See y'all at Left Coast Crime 8
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