Truman Capote-Enfant Terrible

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8264-2763-2
Verlag: BLOOMSBURY 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Written like a New Yorker profile, this book, by the author of the definitive volume on the films of Merchant Ivory, who also has had access to Capote’s unpublished papers, studies Truman Capote in a new way: through his early years and works.

There have now been two recent and acclaimed films on Capote. Why the current interest? It is perhaps because Truman Capote, among the great American authors, represents the big unanswered question: What if? He was also completely different from the rest. As a Southern writer, Capote is most resistant to being typed as 'a local.' A polished and detached observer, he was ultimately placeless - like his famous character Holly Golightly, Truman was 'lways travelling,' unwilling or unable to put down roots. He had a strange relationship with his beautiful but immature mother (Capote’s surname was originally Persons), about whom he would talk in his sleep in later life. He was a prodigy, whose career received a boost from a series of rich and talented girls. Carson McCullers gave Capote early help in publishing his work. As this book shows, the trajectory of their careers was not dissimilar.

Truman Capote, Enfant Terrible, is a grand overview of a complex and fascinating author: one who remained a child in appearance and behaviour; a Southerner who strayed from the South; a celebrity while living in the most solitary realm of his vast imagination.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Long, Robert Emmet

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 The Early Years to Capote's Departure for Europe 1949
2 Nine High School Stories ("Hilda," " If I Forget You," " Lucy," "Saturday Night," "Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child," "Swamp Terror," "The Moth in the Flame," "Miss Belle Rankin," "Louise"); The Tree of Night and Other Stories; Summer Crossing
3 Other Voices, Other Rooms
4 Travels Including Local Color, Short Fiction, and Reportage
5 The Grass Harp--Novel and Play
6 The Films: Beat the Devil and Indiscretions of an American Housewife
7 Observations - with Photographs by Richard Avedon
8 In Cold Blood
9 The Late Years in the Public Eye
10 Answered Prayers
Works
Works Consulted
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Emmet Long is a recognized critic of American and British literature, and a commentator on the performing arts. He is author or editor of some 30 books and he has contributed over 400 articles to many journals and magazines, including The Nation, Commonweal, and Saturday Review.