When talking about thriller in the cinematographic realm, everyone remembers «The silence of the lambs»As one of those films that establishes a new milestone, a summit that is difficult to reach despite the attempts to reply that every earthquake provokes, even for the very continuations of the saga of which the main actor himself, Anthony Hopkins, denies.
Behind the story taken to the cinema was the plot of the novel "The Silence of the Innocents", A Thomas harris who kept a patient silence until 2019 in which he returns with new vigor and very different arguments. Because the truth is that a saga of the intensity of Hannibal Lecter has to leave its consequences in the creative, in the labeling, in what readers expect of you.
On the other hand, it is also interesting to consider that, in that inverse phenomenon that occurs for writers who are not yet fully recognized throughout the world, the absolute explosion of the film led many readers to the book already its first part «The red dragon». And this is how in synergy, the author came out winning in the exponential power of his job as a writer.
Perhaps with the commercial demands of the original story, more sequels followed. And when a work is almost perfect, everything that comes afterwards so as not to maintain the same level, will seem bland.
So, as Harris himself may have decided, it is best to let time pass, even more than a decade after the last appearance of psychiatrist Lecter. And thus, freed from chains, to expose himself again to the general public. A change of third and full confidence in the ability to forget all of the above, even pulling that recognition of the author as a perfect claim ...
Top 3 Recommended Novels by Thomas Harris
The silence of the inocents
The saying that a picture is worth a thousand words can be useful in many different areas because of the crystal clear vision.
But in literature understood as the creation of an author and recreation of a reader, the saying remains with feet of clay because the thing is more about imagination than direct visualization. Even more so in a novel of great psychological depth such as this one. To name Clarice Starling is to evoke the role of Jodie Foster turned FBI psychiatrist.
And yet the relationship between his colleague, in a criminal version, and Clarice herself becomes much more fertile in the novel. It is in this story where the unequal combat between the mind of the murderer and that of the doctor facing evil in all its depth is best developed, from the generalized conception of psychopathy to the introspection in the atavistic fears of our species with which Hannibal seems to play.
The case advances in the novel with the same and intense inertia as the strange relationship between the destructive and the morbid, from a doctor and a particular patient to probe even the blackest of the well.
Hannibal
Who knows if Hannibal was satisfied with his special help in solving the case of the murderer Buffalo Bill? The point is that his intervention served him to execute the plan of his own escape.
And his life outside prison seemed even more dangerous to society than that of the murderer captured thanks to his guidelines. For a while his name seems like just a bad memory to Clarice.
But precisely when his professional life approaches a crisis that is difficult to resolve, Hannibal's shadow looms again. Perhaps it was simply that, the predator awaiting his victim's moment of weakness.
Although at least that meant that Hannibal valued Clarice's ability when she was at the helm of his life. And yet it is the moment of the reunion because he has decided and because no one is capable of taking the reins towards a case in which Lecter is the criminal to find.
Of course, the attendants were too lofty to be repeated in a new work. But good coffee can always leave interesting grounds and in this new installment it was enjoyed by going through new labyrinths of psychiatry made up.
Cari mora
And despite everything, there will always be readers who think that Harris has let them down. Hannibal's shadow is elongated and Cari Mora doesn't have the same strength as a character. But it is that this time it is not a matter of personalizing the plot but of blurring it among more characters and the space as disturbing as it is magnetic in the house.
Because the great mansion that Cari Mora maintains can house a great modern treasure, the one that Pablo Escobar himself left safely in Miami itself, that city as American as it is Colombian.
Hannibal delved into the essence of evil as a gloomy overcoming of the human. In this case, it is money and ambition that drives everything, devaluing the human condition to that pride of money that precisely annuls the human condition of the one who aspires.
Those who pursue the treasure are, of course, a select group of powerful men full of animosity and unscrupulousness. And in their nightmares turned into wet dreams they will be able to do anything to get the glorious loot.
Cari Mora is a hindrance and at the same time a focus of desire for Hans-Peter, the most fervent seeker of Escobar's hidden legacy. Between the two and with the presence of a house that also capitalizes on the protagonism from the essence of the events it hides, a dark novel with an unpredictable ending unfolds.
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