《海史密斯日记与笔记》内容简介

　　在美国文坛，帕特里夏•海史密斯是一个尤为独特的名字。她以天才少女的姿态闯入文坛，第一部长篇小说就被希区柯克翻拍成同名电影《列车上的陌生人》，用笔名出版的半自传小说《卡罗尔》是美国同性文学史上里程碑式的作品，而深入探问读者内心黑暗面、有过多个电影版本的《天才雷普利》更是超越了类型小说的范畴，跻身伟大文学的行列。

　　海史密斯身后留下了8000多页日记和笔记，本书由她的编辑耗时数十年精心编校，并配以从未公开过的私人照片及档案文件。帕特基本上一直用两种叙事记录自己的生活：日记详细描述了她紧张的、时而痛苦的个人经历，笔记则帮助她把这些经历进行理性加工，并构思自己的写作。本书按照时间顺序、根据帕特的居住地点划分为五个时期，从最初的美国时期，到辗转欧洲各地的中年岁月，再到她在瑞士的暮年。日记和笔记的条目相互交织、紧密相连，笔记和日记各成一体，分开阅读也不成问题，但对应起来阅读，才能获得对她全面的认识——用帕特自己的话来说——如果一个作者，终其一生都在隐藏故事中取材自她个人经历的部分，那么她的小说会更容易让我们远离作者，而不是引领我们走近她。

　　世人更熟悉海史密斯晚年避走欧洲、离群索居的孤僻形象，但这些文字也展现了她年轻时开朗、乐观又充满抱负的一面。无论作为一个人，还是一名作家，帕特都是迷人而复杂的，在这些文字里，她留下了自己热烈而精彩的人生，为读者讲述了一个坚强独立的女性如何摆脱自己的出身、对抗社会的偏见，进而用写作一步步实现自己的梦想。除了帕特本人的生活和创作，读者也得以窥见当时欧美文化圈的风流盛况——透过帕特这个“局外人”的视角，获得从未有过的独特体验。

　　这并非一本自传作品，写作自传的过程，必然是在回溯过去，往往经过精心编辑，从某一特定的视角再现往事，而这些日记与笔记记录的则是一段仍在进行的当下的人生，就像两面镜子，从不同的角度折射出她的生活和工作，让读者看到——用作者自己的话来说——帕特里夏•海史密斯是如何成为帕特里夏•海史密斯的。

　　作者简介

　　帕特里夏•海史密斯，美国女作家，一九二一年生于美国得州沃斯堡，六岁时随父母迁居至纽约，曾就读于纽约的朱莉亚•里奇蒙高中与巴纳德女子学院。她的第一本小说《列车上的陌生人》于一九五一年由大导演希区柯克改编为电影，一鸣惊人。一九五五年出版的《天才雷普利》更是奠定其在类型文学中的至高地位。

　　帕特里夏•海史密斯的作品以犯罪小说及短篇小说为主，她常年旅居欧洲各地，在欧洲受欢迎的程度远胜于美国。近年来，随着评论家不断发掘其作品的内涵，她身后的声誉甚至比生前还高。在数年前美国《时代》周刊选出的50位最伟大的犯罪小说作家中，帕特里夏•海史密斯仍高居榜首。

　　海史密斯擅写人物之异常的心理状态，步步为营、幽微复杂，气氛往往如乌云罩顶，对善恶的界定也常常与其他犯罪小说大异其趣。她的作品总量不多，但以“雷普利系列”为代表的独特风格，得到诸多纯文学名家——如格雷厄姆•格林、朱利安•西蒙斯和乔伊斯•卡洛•欧茨的高度评价。同时，这些小说以其强烈的画面感和震撼力吸引着众多电影从业者，大导演明格拉、文德斯和电影明星阿兰•德龙、马科维奇、马特•达蒙、裘德•洛都是她的忠实书迷，他们协力创制出的前后几个“雷普利电影”版本，都成为脍炙人口的影史经典。

　　

Highsmith's Diary and Notes

Patricia Highsmith is a particularly unique name in American literature. Her first novel was remade by Hitchcock into the film of the same name "Strangers on the Train", and the semi-autobiographical novel "Carol" published under a pseudonym is a landmark work in the history of American gay literature, and the "Genius Ripley", which deeply explores the dark side of readers' hearts and has several film versions, is beyond the category of genre fiction. Join the ranks of great literature.

Highsmith left behind more than 8,000 pages of diaries and notes, carefully edited by her editor over decades and accompanied by never-before-seen private photographs and archival documents. Pat has essentially kept track of her life in two narratives: her diary, which details her intense and sometimes painful personal experiences, and her notes, which help her process those experiences rationally and craft her writing. The book is chronologically divided into five periods, based on where Pat lived, from her early years in the United States, through her middle age as she moved around Europe, to her final years in Switzerland. The entries in the diary and the notes are so interwoven that reading them separately is not a problem, but reading them together is necessary to get a full picture of her -- in Pat's own words -- if an author spends her life hiding the parts of her story that she draws from her own experiences, it is easier for her novels to distance us from the author. Instead of leading us closer to her.

The world is more familiar with Highsmith's reclusive image of retreating from Europe in her later years, but these writings also reveal the cheerful, optimistic and ambitious side of her youth. Both as a person and as a writer, Pat is fascinating and complex, and in these words, she leaves behind her own passionate and wonderful life, telling readers how a strong and independent woman has shed her origins, fought against social prejudices, and used writing to realize her dreams step by step. In addition to Pat's own life and creation, readers also get a glimpse of the European and American cultural scene at that time - through the perspective of Pat as an "outsider", they have never had a unique experience.

This is not an autobiographical work, the process of writing an autobiography is necessarily looking back in the past, often carefully edited, from a specific perspective, and these diaries and notes record a period of ongoing life, like two mirrors, reflecting her life and work from different angles. Let the reader see - in the author's own words - how Patricia Highsmith became Patricia Highsmith.

About the author

Patricia Highsmith was born in 1921 in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York with her parents at the age of six, where she attended Julia Richmond High School and Barnard College for Girls. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Genius of Ripley, published in 1955, established his supreme position in genre literature.

Patricia Highsmith, a writer of crime novels and short stories, has lived extensively in Europe, where she is far more popular than in the United States. In recent years, as critics have dug deeper into her work, her reputation has grown even higher in death than in life. A few years ago, Time magazine ranked Patricia Highsmith among the 50 greatest crime writers of all Time.

Highsmith is good at writing characters' abnormal psychological states, step by step, subtle and complex, the atmosphere is often like a dark cloud, and the definition of good and evil is often different from other crime novels. Her body of work is small, but her unique style, represented by the "Ripley Series", has been highly praised by many pure literary masters, such as Graham Greene, Julian Simmons and Joyce Carlo Oates. At the same time, these novels with its strong sense of picture and shock to attract many film practitioners, the great director Minghella, Wenders and film stars Alain Delon, Markovic, Matt Damon, Jude Law are her loyal fans, they worked together to create several "Ripley film" versions, have become popular film history classics.