Cultural Relativism and “Our Way of Life”: Patricia Highsmith’s The Tremor of Forgery
Like Meursault in The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus, the 34-year-old protagonist of Patricia Highsmith’s The Tremor of Forgery (1969) is almost certain of having killed an Arab in self-defence but feels no remorse for the deed except as it is judged by other Americans within his orbit of Western i...
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Casa Cărții de Știință
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Cultural Intertexts |
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