Psycho

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Psycho

✍️ Senaratne Weerasinghe

" භීතිය රැදී ඇත්තේ අදුරු සෙවණැලි තුළ නොව අප හිස් කබල තුළ ඇති කුඩා ලොව තුළය."

- රොබට් බ්ලොච්-

What do we really know about people?

How many secrets are hidden in people's minds...?

Is the mildness on the outside inside….?

Do they suffer from mental illness?

Is there something crazy in everyone...?

 

I bought Psycho a few days ago because of a review I saw on Facebook, and I finished reading it between this morning and now. At that moment I seemed to forget to let down the sigh I raised. I felt so much terror and horror.

This horror novel or psychological thriller was written by Robert Bloch in 1959 and its Sinhala version was done by Mr. Senaratne Weerasinghe in 1995.

Here, Robert has taken as his premise Sigmund Freud's "Oedipus complex" (the Oedipus complex is a theory of psychology whereby a person, especially during childhood, develops an attraction to parents of the opposite sex and an attitude of hostility towards parents of the same sex.) The psychological concept is placed before the reader. But the strangeness here is the strangeness that Robert Bloch has used that concept in literature.

In the same way, Norman Bates allows the story to flow while keeping a keen eye on his mind. A young woman steals the money she was given to deposit in the bank from her work office and goes to the city where her lover lives. That's where the horror begins.

Price - 600/=

Number of pages - 222

Publishing - Prabha Publishers.

Year of Printing - January 2022 (Seventh Printing).

 

🖋 Navodani Kumari Ranasinghe.