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De : Joshua B Lukin <jblukin@acsu.buffalo.edu>
=C0 : rara-avis@icomm.ca <rara-avis@icomm.ca>
Date : vendredi 13 f=E9vrier 1998 22:25
Objet : RARA-AVIS: Highsmith
>There are also movies of _The_Glass_Cell_,
_This_Sweet_Sickness_, and
>_The_Blunderer_. Supposedly, Hitchcock and Wenders
were the only adapte=
rs
>of her work whom Highsmith liked.
>I was very disappointed in the fifth Ripley novel,
finding it almost
>completely devoid of substance. Does anyone feel the
same about this or
>any of PH's other late novels (I'm kind of ambivalent
toward
>_A_Dog's_Ransom_)?
>Another question: a publisher-friend of mine is
looking to reissue some
>out-of-print Highsmiths from the Fifties. He contacted
Penguin to find
>out who has the rights to them and was directed down a
blind alley. Can
>anyone advise as to whom he should contact?
>The Observer, reviewing Philip Dick's
_Humpty_Dumpty_in_Oakland_,
>remarked, "It is often difficult to disentangle
delusion from reality, a=
s
>in a novel by Patricia Highsmith." I think too that
books from this era
>in Dick's life (ca. 1960) contain a bleakness,
domestic despair, and
>paranoia-erupting-into-sudden-violence that contribute
to the appeal of
>Highsmith's work.
>Just a thought or two,
>Josh
>
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