> Highsmith is my favorite female crime writer, and one
of my all-around
> favorite writers. She had a very special kind of
literary genius, dark,
> which is very concise but full of wisdom and
thoroughly practical.
>
> There's no-one even remotely like her in the current
literary scene.
I also have a great admiration for Highsmith's work. About
3-4 years
ago there was a lit piece in the VILLAGE VOICE praising
Highsmith (
around the time RIPLEY UNDER WATER was released, I
believe)..
I just finished Alex Garland's THE BEACH and thought it had a
heavy
Highsmith influence -the detached, banal evil and sense of
impending
doom. Christian Doellner
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