A Girl like Phyl | A Critical Analysis of Patricia Highsmith’s Work
In the following essay, Stenger gives a critical analysis of Patricia Highsmith’s work.
In his foreword to the 1972 edition of Eleven (1970), Patricia Highsmith’s first collection of short stories, English novelist Graham Greene dubs her ‘‘the poet of apprehension rather than fear’’ and characterizes her achievement:
She is a writer who has created a world of her own—a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger, with the head half turned over the shoulder, even with a certain reluctance, for these are cruel pleasures we are going to experience, until . . . the frontier is closed behind...
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