Average Bufph Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Thomas Harris
2009-12-28
An ingenious, masterfully written novel, Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs is a classic of suspense and storytelling and the basis for the Oscar award-winning horror film starring Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname—Buffalo Bill—is stalking particular women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the F.B.I. Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, Chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and grisly killer now kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Lecter's insight into the minds of murderers could help track and capture Buffalo Bill.
Smart and attractive, Starling is shaken to find herself in a strange, intense relationship with the acutely perceptive Lecter. His cryptic clues—about Buffalo Bill and about her—launch Clarice on a search that every reader will find startling, harrowing, and totally compelling.
Das Werk von Harris ist eine meisterhafte Studie über das Böse und die unergründlichen Tiefen der menschlichen Psyche. Seine Darstellung der forensischen Psychologie ist eindrücklich und präzise. Die Prozedur im FBI und die Methoden von Clarice Starling sind authentisch und fesselnd, besonders in der Gegenüberstellung mit dem sadistischen Intellekt von Hannibal Lecter. Die strukturierte Darstellung des Falls und die psychologischen Einsichten sind lobenswert, auch wenn die Handlung stellenweise etwas zu klischeehaft erscheint.
