Philip L. Simpson: Making Murder: The Fiction of Thomas Harris. (ABC Clio) Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger 2010. Aus der Verlagsanzeige (mit Zusazinfos): “‘We make mercy, manufacture it in the parts that have overgrown our basic reptile brain. There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.’ Near the end of Thomas Harris’s Red Dragon, the author gives this thought to FBI agent Will Graham. But this devastating encapsulation of humankind’s dual nature could be the epigram for all five of Harris’s masterful novels.
Making Murder takes readers deep into the work of Thomas Harris and his iconic creation, Hannibal Lecter—one of modern fiction’s most unforgettable characters. A former crime reporter, Harris’s exhaustive research techniques have included extensive time with the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit studying actual serial killers. Like no other available volume, the book explores the dark heart within Harris’s novels—the unflinching look at evil that makes them so much more than just “good reads.”
Zu Simpsons Psycho Paths: Tracking the Serial Killer Through Contemporary American Film and Fiction (2000) gibt’s bei IASL online schon eine Rezension, die aber im Moment nicht verlinkt werden kann. Jetzt aber: von Klaus Bartels.
(Dank an Th. Kailer.)
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