A review by matildazq
Little Tales of Misogyny by Patricia Highsmith

3.0

I haven't read any Patricia Highsmith, and my only familiarity is Hitchcock's version of her first novel. I was looking to read something by her, and the title of this caught my eye. It's hard to describe. It's certainly not "enjoyable" in any conventional sense, but it's brilliant in its brutality, as if she were writing the most honest, stripped-down version of every feminine archetype in Western film and literature. The plots, such as they are, end up Kafka-esque, but the thrill is in how easy it is to see them fluffed out into conventional narratives with their one-dimensional women.