Non-P: du Maurier?

[David Kilroy]

Finished the novel. Watching Hitchcock's riff now. Zowie, the lesbian
overtones of Danvers' and Rebecca's relationship in du Maurier is
absurdly inflated in the film. It's good for a laugh. Never realized
how awk-weird Sir Lawrence is, either, though I've little to go by
except for Marathon Man and Sleuth...

On 11/20/15, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I don't. This IS snark.
>
> Laura
>
> Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>i think about female archetypes every other day. This is not snark.
>>
>>On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:16 PM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Also in re: Rebecca, been thinking about female archetypes in fiction a
>>> lot
>>> lately. Predominantly Salomé-- b/c of the project currently cluttering my
>>> desk --but also the folktale of Bluebeard.  'Twas due to Bluebeard that I
>>> picked up Rebecca.  Again that thing with timeless themes.  We always
>>> wonder
>>> what happened with the one before.  "Did it simply not work out, OR, is
>>> my
>>> One True Love secretly a heinous bastard...?"  Appeals to the morbid
>>> tendency.
>>>
>>> The Birds I wound up reading on a lark.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:06 PM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> @Mark:  Quite easy to parse the popularity.  The main character being
>>>> unnamed & ambiguously enough described for readers to patch into; the
>>>> mystery is one we've all experienced to some extent (stumbling through
>>>> the
>>>> life of one deceased, or the keepsakes of a lover's former love); and--
>>>> like
>>>> Melville's Pierre --it's a gothic that takes specific pains to mock the
>>>> Manners Novel.  The first half, at least, regularly pokes at class
>>>> hypocrisy.  Don't know if that thread will continue now that Rebecca's
>>>> mystery is officially underway, but those traits combined makes it
>>>> beautifully accessible.  Universal themes.  Timeless even.
>>>>
>>>> (Doesn't hurt that I am a total sap & hopeless romantic.)
>>>>
>>>> Oh, and the Birds was *damned* good.  The simplicity & specificity of
>>>> the
>>>> language, combined with the cadence & characterization made me wonder if
>>>> it
>>>> wasn't a formative influence on Cormac McCarthy.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Rebecca lasts. Touches something universal ( Western anyway).
>>>>> I know this about its publishing history. It was deemed nothing special
>>>>> by its
>>>>> Publisher but early readers, --booksellers,-- voted it a People's
>>>>> Choice
>>>>> kind of
>>>>> award. When popular could also mean good.
>>>>> ( not putting down any others, in fact The Birds has surely become a
>>>>> modern archetype, eh?)
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 20, 2015, at 6:35 AM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Jamaica Inn would complete the Hitchcock adaptation trilogy.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, November 20, 2015, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Have greatly enjoyed taking a stroll through Daphne du Maurier's
>>>>>> shorts, The Birds and Don't Look Now. PARTICULARLY The Birds. Halfway
>>>>>> thru Rebecca and frankly infatuated. Does P-list have any short story
>>>>>> collections or further novels by the Dame they'd care to recommend?
>>>>>> -
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>>>>
>>>
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