title: A Corpse of One's Own: Una ombra fosca, com un nvol de tempesta (Catalan Studies)
author: Patricia Hart
description: Isabel-Clara Sim's 1991 crime novel 'Una ombra fosca com un nvol de tempesta' has been superbly translated by Patty Hart with the intriguing non-literal title 'A Corpse of One's Own'. The story is full of suspense and surprises, but the background is all too familiar - women trying to solve moral, social, and political problems - their own and the world's - with or without the help of a man, sometimes succeeding and sometimes not, but always paying a heavy price. (Kathleen McNerney, West Virginia University)<br /> Isabel-Clara Sim's novel, 'A Corpse of One's Own', is in the first half, as lucid and disenchanted a look at feminine alienation as the one that Fritz Lang, using the framework of the detective genre, showed in 'Blue Gardenia'. In the second part, the thriller acquires fearful cosmic dimensions, and we would be tempted to think of Fritz Lang again - this time in the Dr. Mabuse cycle - if we didn't have at hand a more recent Hispanic example, that of Manuel Vzquez Montalbn in 'Galndez', a work that, like Isabel-Clara Sim's, demonstrates the resounding failure of innocence in a corrupt work. Whether we read this as a feminist novel or as detective fiction, the voice of Isabel-Clara Sim resonates for the justness of tone and draughtsmanship, verbal inventiveness, and precise observation. (Pere Gimferrer)<br /> Patricia Hart! shows herself to be a collaborative and resourceful translator. (Sheila McIntosh, World Literature Today)<br />
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