Who turned paranoia into a literary style? The term itself possesses a distinguished cultural pedigree, going back to the ancient Greek dramatists, who used it to describe the affair of Oedipus and Jocasta as well as the mindset of Orestes after he murders his mother Clytemnestra. But paranoia didn't take center stage in literature until the first half …
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