"In the beginning there was earth and stone and a drop of water. Ristanno The earth and stone, but the water moves, it grows. It does trickle and stream, and stream becomes a river. There are many rivers. One and 'the Danube, the other fear. " It seems one of those subjects that appealed to Hitchcock (and not 'said the almost' unknown Holiday Hall, writing Someone at the door, not had in mind the figures of James Stewart and Doris Day or Cary Grant and Grace Kelly). A typical young American couple, on business in Vienna (Vienna, a post-war with the rubble, the areas Anglo-American and Russian, the Viennese who try to survive and feel the burden of collective guilt), he stumbles into a triple murder without intent. And, one step after another, Casey and Felicia, as hunters and hunted at the same time, get into trouble. One step after another, a particular side to another and - Hitchcock - The more 'short' pitch, the more 'increasing tension: thus' the reader follows them, without knowing whether it is good following in the footsteps of a murderess, international intrigue, a fatal hunting. Hall of Holiday, someone at the door and 'the second, and last known novel "yellow." The first, The End and 'note, he did think of Leonardo Sasha's face to a writer' quality 'different level of more' high vocation of a better and different future. " And what is this quality 'than you can' probably recognize in a particular way, an unexpected slow inexorable, to administer the crescendo of the story (and do suspense).
(Geoffrey Hall Holiday, Sellerio )
My opinion: A beautiful yellow written by this American author virtually disappeared into thin air After his first successful works. The Vienna that it 's described reminds me so much that you see in Third Man, a film which is particularly close.
0 comments:
Post a Comment