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Robert Forester didn't look like the kind of man to be a prowler. His ex-wife had told the police he was erratic, liable to violence, had evenfired a gun at her. Maybe he was psychopathic murderer...
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結婚に失敗し、精神的に疲れていたロバート・フォレスターにとって、幸せそうに生活する女性ジェニファーの姿をこっそり眺めることが、唯一のやすらぎだった。ある夜、ついに見つかってしまった彼を、意外にもジェニファーは暖かく迎え入れてくれる。その上、彼の孤独感に共鳴し、出会いを運命的なものと感じた彼女は恋人グレッグとの婚約を破棄してしまった。嫉妬と復讐にかられたグレッグは、ロバートを執拗にねらうが…。
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このミス（海外）1992年 4位
結婚を控えたジェニファーの生活を、悪意がないながらも覗き見するロバート。これに、気がついたジェニファーは、いつしかロバートに心引かれていく。二人の関係が、婚約を解消されグレッグを狂気にかりたる。喧嘩のすえのグレッグの行方不明で、ロバートは殺人事件の容疑者になってしまう ・・・
ロバートの元妻ニッキーを含め、4人の登場人物が、それぞれ心理的に不安定な部分をかかえている。覗き見をやめられないロバート、そのロバートを死の象徴としながらも愛してしまうジェニファー、執拗な復讐をおこなうグレッグ、元夫の苦しむ姿を楽しみとするニッキー。1962年の作品ながら、心理描写については、現在にも通じるのだろうと思う。
警察や近隣の住人らら、冷たい扱いを受けるロバート。あらぬ疑いをかけられ苦悩する類の作品は、読み進めるのがつらくなるので、読了するまで時間がかかってしまった。あっさりと片付くかに思われたラストも、結局は、明るい未来を予見させるものとはならなかったので、重苦しい印象が残った。
面白いと思うが、どちらかというと苦手かなぁ。なお、本作は、映画化されている。
結婚を控えたジェニファーの生活を、悪意がないながらも覗き見するロバート。これに、気がついたジェニファーは、いつしかロバートに心引かれていく。二人の関係が、婚約を解消されグレッグを狂気にかりたる。喧嘩のすえのグレッグの行方不明で、ロバートは殺人事件の容疑者になってしまう ・・・
ロバートの元妻ニッキーを含め、4人の登場人物が、それぞれ心理的に不安定な部分をかかえている。覗き見をやめられないロバート、そのロバートを死の象徴としながらも愛してしまうジェニファー、執拗な復讐をおこなうグレッグ、元夫の苦しむ姿を楽しみとするニッキー。1962年の作品ながら、心理描写については、現在にも通じるのだろうと思う。
警察や近隣の住人らら、冷たい扱いを受けるロバート。あらぬ疑いをかけられ苦悩する類の作品は、読み進めるのがつらくなるので、読了するまで時間がかかってしまった。あっさりと片付くかに思われたラストも、結局は、明るい未来を予見させるものとはならなかったので、重苦しい印象が残った。
面白いと思うが、どちらかというと苦手かなぁ。なお、本作は、映画化されている。
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The Hidden Darkness of the Ordinary Man
1997/4/19
形式:ペーパーバック
Patricia Highsmith has her own chilling interpretation of the suspense thriller genre. You wonder not so much about what will happen or how it will happen or who will do it. Rather, the question is: how much worse can things get for the relatively innocent main character, Robert Forrester, who, as the novel goes on, is falsely suspected of a growing number of deaths.
Forrester invites suspicion by prowling around the house of a young woman. Depressed by the failure of his marraige, he has moved to a small Pennsylvannia town and is leading a solitary and bleak life. Looking through the windows of Jenny's house, he is comforted by watching the attractive young woman attend to domestic details: cooking, hanging curtains, talking to her boyfriend over dinner.
Highsmith presents Forrester's prowling as understandable; slightly wrong, and risky, yet certainly not harmful. Mostly one feels sympathy for Forrester, a character drawn in anguished shades of gray. He is a decent man, with no drive or hope, seeking a little illicit happiness.
As the novel progresses, his relationship to Jenny takes a surprising turn of events. Highsmith's mastery lies in the pedestrian inevitability with which she introduces abnormal and even shocking twists of the plot. Because we are lulled into Highsmith's own distinctive world of the darkness of ordinary lives, our anxiety for Forrester is gradually heightened without our even being aware of it. By the time the plot gets around to the events which categorize the novel as a mystery, we are deeply engaged in the psychologies of Forrester and Jenny, as well as several other characters.
The suspense thus springs from their own interior struggles, rather than the machinations of a conventional murder plot. Predictably, therefore, there are no easy solutions in the end, no complex train of events to be tied up in one simple explanation.
The adding up of the actions of people who are no more conscious of why they do what they do than any regular person, has, in this novel, an utterly gripping and painfully believable tragic outcome.
Forrester invites suspicion by prowling around the house of a young woman. Depressed by the failure of his marraige, he has moved to a small Pennsylvannia town and is leading a solitary and bleak life. Looking through the windows of Jenny's house, he is comforted by watching the attractive young woman attend to domestic details: cooking, hanging curtains, talking to her boyfriend over dinner.
Highsmith presents Forrester's prowling as understandable; slightly wrong, and risky, yet certainly not harmful. Mostly one feels sympathy for Forrester, a character drawn in anguished shades of gray. He is a decent man, with no drive or hope, seeking a little illicit happiness.
As the novel progresses, his relationship to Jenny takes a surprising turn of events. Highsmith's mastery lies in the pedestrian inevitability with which she introduces abnormal and even shocking twists of the plot. Because we are lulled into Highsmith's own distinctive world of the darkness of ordinary lives, our anxiety for Forrester is gradually heightened without our even being aware of it. By the time the plot gets around to the events which categorize the novel as a mystery, we are deeply engaged in the psychologies of Forrester and Jenny, as well as several other characters.
The suspense thus springs from their own interior struggles, rather than the machinations of a conventional murder plot. Predictably, therefore, there are no easy solutions in the end, no complex train of events to be tied up in one simple explanation.
The adding up of the actions of people who are no more conscious of why they do what they do than any regular person, has, in this novel, an utterly gripping and painfully believable tragic outcome.
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Chilling
2000/10/9
形式:ペーパーバック
This book is one of the few books I've ever read, especially in mystery, that gave me a serious case of the creeps. It's not just suspenseful, it's scary. The book has aged, but not dated; if anything I found Highsmith's characters even more disturbing in light of how social mores and psychological knowledge has advanced. But what's ultimately scary about it is that what happens to our hero, Robert Forester, is something that could very easy happen to anyone in the wrong place at the wrong time. Read it, it's brilliant.
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Didn't really live up to its promise
2002/12/17
形式:ペーパーバック
This is the first Patricia Highsmith novel I've read, and all things considered I probably should have started with one of her more popular titles. I did enjoy the book, but thought the action fizzled out a bit about halfway through. It started really well. I liked Robert, I liked the cosy domestic idyll Jenny represented for him, but I got disappointed when they actually got to know each other, and found that the reality of their relationship paled beside his fantasy.
I found Nikkie somewhat unbelievable - could someone so theatrically cruel really exist and would someone like Robert ever be blind enough to marry her? Hopefully not. I also thought Greg's transformation from clean-cut, stable, all-American nice guy to a gun-wielding, porn-viewing maniac a little too radical. If Highsmith was trying to invert our assumptions about Robert and Greg and make a point about appearance and reality she should probably have done so with a little more subtlety.
I expected the plot to take a completely different arc to what it did - did anyone else latch on to the comment Jenny made towards the beginning of the book about how accusing a man falsely of rape was the worst crime a woman could commit? I thought that this was an indicator of how the story would proceed, and felt a little cheated when it turned out to have no bearing on the plot at all.
Having said all that, Highsmith did a wonderful job of creating an atmosphere of tension and nervous expectation, as my completely eroded cuticles will testify. It's a book that has an almost physiological effect on you - you actually experience what the characters feel, rather than using your imagination to try and simulate the experience. The ending is particularly good in this regard as it gives no closure, but instead allows the sense of despair and horror to continue after the book has been closed. This makes it a rather uncomfortable read I suppose, as most people can do without palpitations, a dry throat, and a sense of mounting panic. It takes an incredibly talented writer to make you want to go through such a disquieting experience again, but I certainly do. I will definitely read another Patricia Highsmith novel, and will hopefully find it even better than this one.
I found Nikkie somewhat unbelievable - could someone so theatrically cruel really exist and would someone like Robert ever be blind enough to marry her? Hopefully not. I also thought Greg's transformation from clean-cut, stable, all-American nice guy to a gun-wielding, porn-viewing maniac a little too radical. If Highsmith was trying to invert our assumptions about Robert and Greg and make a point about appearance and reality she should probably have done so with a little more subtlety.
I expected the plot to take a completely different arc to what it did - did anyone else latch on to the comment Jenny made towards the beginning of the book about how accusing a man falsely of rape was the worst crime a woman could commit? I thought that this was an indicator of how the story would proceed, and felt a little cheated when it turned out to have no bearing on the plot at all.
Having said all that, Highsmith did a wonderful job of creating an atmosphere of tension and nervous expectation, as my completely eroded cuticles will testify. It's a book that has an almost physiological effect on you - you actually experience what the characters feel, rather than using your imagination to try and simulate the experience. The ending is particularly good in this regard as it gives no closure, but instead allows the sense of despair and horror to continue after the book has been closed. This makes it a rather uncomfortable read I suppose, as most people can do without palpitations, a dry throat, and a sense of mounting panic. It takes an incredibly talented writer to make you want to go through such a disquieting experience again, but I certainly do. I will definitely read another Patricia Highsmith novel, and will hopefully find it even better than this one.
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