Reading these wild Daphne Du Maurier stories and finding surprising affinities with those outré '60s noirs I've been watching this week: tales of paranoia, hallucination and deception. Great fun!
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Is “The Birds” in there? I was intrigued to find it only vaguely related to the film, although still pretty disturbing. (And apparently at least partially plagiarised.)
I picked that off my mum's shelf and read it, I must have been about 14? It totally freaked me out and I've never forgotten it but I couldn't remember the author, was decades before I found out it was Du Maurier.
Love that collection! There's a great @backlisted.bsky.social episode about it - featuring @andrewmale.bsky.social & @drlauravarnam.bsky.social IIRC. (Apologies if I have misremembered that.)
"the protagonist, for all his scholarly knowledge and faith in his own superiority, is merely a tourist on a corny "eat pray love" mission — he actively fantasizes about a romantic and intellectual Italian experience — but little by little, things go off track." Spot on!
Ha, I’m in bed at the mo reading this collection! Finished Don’t Look Now earlier this week, now reading The Birds (brilliant, very sinister atmosphere).
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Incidentally, I read The Blue Lenses this morning. Wild!
https://readingvenice.weebly.com/books/ganymede-in-the-breaking-point-by-daphne-du-maurier