Patricia Highsmith: The Intimate Diaries of the Master of Suspense Published in Spanish

Anagrama published in Spanish ‘Diaries and notebooks 1941-1995’ American writer Patricia Highsmith, a book about her intimate life, with “difficulties and contradictions”, the volume of which exceeds a thousand pages.

With a reputation as a misanthrope and a halo of secrecy, the work “deciphers” the writer, who died in 1995.

Its editor since 1984, the Swiss Anna von Planta of the Diogenes publishing house, together with Susanna Bauknecht representing his rights, accompanied by the Spanish editor Jorge Herralde, presented these texts on Tuesday in Barcelona (northeast Spain), in which Patricia Highsmith “Oh, his whole life counts.”

He spoke very little, and instead, according to von Plant, “absorbed too much into life and wrote”, so that in his diaries and notebooks for 54 years he shows himself as he was, with his complexities and contradictions, the reader can discover “a pinch of his soul”.

Patricia Highsmith alone

According to Bauknecht, the book is “one of the best published self-portraits of the 21st century” and literary critics call it “tearing, poignant and heartbreaking”.

von Plant, responsible for the publication and prologue of this monumental work, as well as editor and performer Patricia HighsmithDaniel Keel found 18 diaries, 38 notebooks, and “tons of stories from his early days in New York” to decipher, totaling 8,000 handwritten pages.

The writer told them that in her house, which looked like a fortress, with two narrow windows overlooking the street, she had diaries and notebooks.

After that “bomb news” and after his death in Switzerland, they broke into the house where they searched and searched until they found him in the linen closet.

Author without “frank”

Thinking of the general public rather than the “scholarly version,” von Planta and his team decided to make known “every facet of their life and work,” without taking, in their opinion, the “most sensational route” about gender or politics. .

Because she was “not shy about words”, some “pejorative comments” that might offend today’s readers, especially those directed at African Americans or Jews, especially from her youth, were omitted.

in newspapers, Patricia Highsmith he writes down all his romantic relationships with women, or admits that if he “turned into a man” he “wouldn’t be able to handle” his life.

They also show her evolution from an optimistic young woman in New York in the 1940s with a “desire to live to the fullest” to her last years in Europe “closed like an oyster”.

(According to EFE).

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