A one hundred years after her birth, January 19, 1921, she also conquers us as the author of short stories that have a softness unrelated to novels and long-breath series.
For the centenary comes 'Donne', sixteen short stories, mostly completely unpublished in Italy, published by LaNave di Teseo in the translation by Hilia Brinis, Lorenzo Matteolie Sergio Claudio Perroni.
And at the same time the new editions of 'Sconosciuti in Treno' also arrive in the bookshop, in the translation by Ester Danesi Traversari, with which the Highsmith debuted in 1950, and 'Ripley under the water', translated by Hilia Brinis.
Lonely, always away from the limelight, MaryPatricia Plangman, real name of Patricia Highsmith, died in Aurigeno, Switzerland, on February 4, 1995. Born in Forth Worth, Texas, in 1921, she has always investigated the boundary between the normal and the abnormal making it fade to almost vanish.
24 film adaptations have been drawn from his books.
Ambivalent hero Tom Ripley has also been a great inspiration for cinema from Wim Wendersa's 'The American Friend' 'Antony Minghella's Mr Ripley's Talent' to Liliana Cavani's 'Ripley's Game'.
Highsmith is also the author of books and essays with a psychological background that recount contemporary anguish such as 'More or less natural catastrophes' of 1989 and in her latest novel, 'Idylls of Summer' from 1995, she addressed the theme of homosexuality that she herself experienced. in his relationships.
Particularly popular in Europe, Highsmith moved permanently to the old world in 1963 and spent the last years of her life in a house in the Swiss countryside near Locarno, where she died.
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