Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld. More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides "a lens to peer into the sinister ...
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Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld. More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides "a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior" (John Freeman, Pittsburgh Gazette).
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... outstanding from all the Ripley saga. Tom here is not somewhat the mad psycho - the description given in most reviews - but quite a human, just maybe a bit irrational when taking after the boy in the first place who seemed to be affected by the Tom's personality. But affected in what way? Seeking for approvement of his own deed, or hiding from Lord pursuing him within himself? Ms. Highsmith The Great shows two killers: one is happily living under the soft dont-give-my-Papa-the-reason attitude of his pretty blonde wife, the other is on the edge - with lost of love, with lost of faith and with lost of soul innocense. Is Tom feeling tied up? The fact is he's not capable of feelings, but Frank's fate shakes him to the bone, he must wander about the way some guilty-kind ends it up. And show goes on.
