Patricia Highsmith oltre Ripley

The Many Faces of Patricia Highsmith - The New York Times

2.30 del mattino. Il mio brindisi di capodanno a tutti i demoni, le lussurie, le passioni, le avidità, le invidie, gli amori, gli odi, gli strani desideri, i nemici fantasmatici e reali, l’esercito di ricordi con cui lotto: possano non darmi pace“.

Patricia Highsmith, notte di San Silvestro, 1947

Eccessiva, ribelle, cinica. Talentuosa più di quel Ripley a cui dette vita.

Alcuni disegni della scrittrice.

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The Many Faces of Patricia Highsmith - The New York Times

A drawing of Allela Cornell, circa 1943, titled “Brainstorm — or Rural life in New Hampshire (sig. P. Highsmith/Allela Cornell)”.

Drawing, painting, modelling – in my case also making tables or other things out of wood – means that you live in another element for a while. For the writer, the art of the painter is something totally other, and wonderful: a picture can be seen and grasped and understood in an instant, whereas it takes much longer with a book or a short story…

Patricia Highsmith oltre Ripleyultima modifica: 2022-10-13T12:01:29+02:00da hyponoia