![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He says that his mother-in-law is worried that there is a predisposition to insanity and madness in the family. He even reveals that his wife’s great-grandmother committed suicide at the same age his wife is now. This doesn’t strike Flavières as particularly strange, but Gévigne keeps trying to convince his old friend that there is something wrong with Madeleine. An old, estranged friend named Gévigne comes to see Flavières one day. Gévigne tells Flavières that his wife, Madeleine, has strange spells where she will drift off, sometimes for hours, if no one is talking directly to her. The detective is a lawyer named Flavières. The original Vertigo takes place in Paris, just before and just after World War II. Hitchcock changed the names and locations for his film. Those readers who’ve already seen Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptation already know how well the authors follow that rule. While Hitchcock did a brilliant job taking us into the head of the protagonist, the original novel tells an even more engrossing and sinister tale. The note gives Boileau and Narcejac’s one rule as “the protagonist can never wake up from their nightmare” (n.p.*). They wanted to turn victims into conspirators and protagonists into perpetrators. They took the genre post-modernist in Vertigo and She Who Was No More. ![]() According to the note at the end of Vertigo, by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, the two French novelists banded together to fight the tropes of Golden Age mystery. ![]()
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