Dirda, Michael. “This Woman Is Dangerous”. The Guardian, 20 June 2009, p. between pp. 12 and 13.
between 12 and 13
also wrote in November 1965 that among crime writers only PH
and Georges Simenon
had transcended the limits of crime...
Reception
Patricia Highsmith
The appearance of a biography by Andrew Wilson
in June 2003 drew a remarkable panegyric on PH
from Slavoj žiŽek
: for him, he wrote, her name designates a sacred territory; his judgement of her...
Textual Features
Patricia Highsmith
Again PH
subverts moral expectations: Tom Ripley is charming, ordinary, cultivated—but paranoid and unstable: a man who commits murder as a necessary chore. When he murders, a reader is not permitted the comfort of condemnation...
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Texts
žiŽek, Slavoj. “Not a desire to have him, but to be like him”. London Review of Books, pp. 13-14.