“Laura” has turned out to be an extremely interesting book. At the beginning you think that it´s another mystery book, but then you keep reading and you discover a love story! Well, the truth is that you find several love stories. The end is so unexpected… When you still have about 40 or 30% left of the book you just can´t stop reading. You need more information, you need more motives and more answers. I don´t won´t to say much about the book itself, because I expect everyone to read it. Even if you don´t like police or mystery stories, I´m sure you´ll like this one.
And about the promise I made in my first article about doing some research on the author I have to say that it was, indeed, a very interesting job. I found out that Vera Caspary (November 13, 1899 – June 13, 1987) was an American writer of novels, plays, screenplays, and short stories. Her best-known novel is, as a matter of fact, this book “Laura” which at the same time was made into a highly successful movie.
And about the promise I made in my first article about doing some research on the author I have to say that it was, indeed, a very interesting job. I found out that Vera Caspary (November 13, 1899 – June 13, 1987) was an American writer of novels, plays, screenplays, and short stories. Her best-known novel is, as a matter of fact, this book “Laura” which at the same time was made into a highly successful movie.
Certain police novel usually raises a departure question or enigma: Who is the assassin? It seems to be a quite habitual question. It is the famous “case”, to use the terminology of the sort, that throughout the story is tried to solve, although in these novels the investigation process is more interesting almost always than the same resolution of the conflict. Vera Caspary does not eliminate these characteristics, but it subspills them to transform them into subtle varnish of the plot. The radical question that is sent no longer from the beginning of the novel is the foreseeable one, has changed. From front page it appears point-blank: Who is Laura? Evidently Laura is a mystery in itself. Moved away of the prototypes of “femme fatale” of the sort, Laura is elevated like a inabarcable and fascinating being, journeyed by dark zones that nobody is able to illuminate satisfactorily.
The novel is fragmented into five parts, and in each of them a different character gives his version of facts that sometimes are overlapping and at other times are completed. The few characters who inhabit the novel are trying to offer their version of Laura, but all are inadequate, pale reflections of a shadow.
The novel is fragmented into five parts, and in each of them a different character gives his version of facts that sometimes are overlapping and at other times are completed. The few characters who inhabit the novel are trying to offer their version of Laura, but all are inadequate, pale reflections of a shadow.
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