Truman Capote (1924–1984)
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Truman Capote, 1924 - 1984 Novelist and playwright Truman Streckfus Person was born in 1924 in New Orleans to a salesman and a 16-year-old beauty queen. His parents divorced when he was four years old and was then raised by relatives for a few years in Monroeville. His mother was remarried to a mostra altro successful businessman, moved to New York, and Truman adopted his stepfather's surname. He attended Greenwich High School and never went to college. When he was 17, Capote's formal education ended when he was employed at The New Yorker magazine. He belived he did not need to go to college to be a writer, since he was writing seriously since age 11. Capote's first novel was "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (1948), which told the story of a boy growing up in the Deep South. "The Grass Harp" (1951) is about a young boy and his elderly cousin discovering that some compromise is necessary for people to live together in a community and was adapted to screen in 1996. The play "The House of Flowers" (1954) is a musical set in a West Indies bordello. Capote then wrote, "Breakfast at Tiffanys" (1958), which tells the story of how Holly Golightly goes to New York seeking happiness. Capote became preoccupied with journalism and, sparked by the murder of a wealthy family in Holcomb, Kansas, began interviewing the locals to recreate the lives of the murderers and their victims. The research and writing for this novel, "In Cold Blood" (1966), took six years for him to complete. Other works of Capote's include the classic "A Christmas Memory" (1966), which is an autobiographical account of a seven-year-old boy, his cousin, and an eccentric old lady, "Music for Chameleons" (1981), which is a collection of short pieces, interviews, stories and conversations that were published in several magazines, and "One Christmas" (1982). On August 26, 1984 in Los Angeles, Truman Capote died of liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication. Published after his death were "Conversations With Capote" (1985) and "Answered Prayers: The Untitled Novel" (1986). (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Truman Capote
Os Cães Ladram. Pessoas Públicas E Lugares Privados - Coleção L&PM Pocket (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (2006) 9 copie
House of Flowers [short story] 7 copie
Yachts and Things — Autore — 5 copie
Marilyn & Co: Begegnungen mit Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor und vielen anderen (2009) 4 copie
Cinco relatos para mujeres 3 copie
Shut a Final Door 2 copie
Une journée de travail 2 copie
Christmas Memory, A 2 copie
Yoru no ki (夜の樹) 1 copia
נבל העשב 1 copia
Sithala le 1 copia
breakfast at tiffanys 1 copia
Zajtrk pri Tiffanyju 1 copia
Glasba za kameleone 1 copia
Desayuno's en Tiffany's 1 copia
In Cold Blood - Inglês 1 copia
Hommikueine Tiffany juures 1 copia
Dejuni a Can Tiffany 1 copia
Miss Bobbit (in I racconti) 1 copia
Padron Miseria (in I racconti) 1 copia
Trees of the Night 1 copia
Eblouissement 1 copia
Blind items 1 copia
Un été indien 1 copia
Morceaux choisis 1 copia
Morgunverður á Tiffany's 1 copia
Truman Capote Reads Scenes from In Cold Blood. A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. 1966. 33 1/3… (1966) 1 copia
1962 1 copia
La Mujer 1 copia
AFTERWORDS 1 copia
Opere correlate
The American Short Story: A Collection of the Best Known and Most Memorable Stories by the Great American Authors (1994) — Collaboratore — 318 copie
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Collaboratore — 266 copie
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Collaboratore — 183 copie
The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 1: From Sherlock Holmes to A Clockwork Orange to Jo Nesbø (2017) — Collaboratore — 35 copie
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
Contemporary Short Stories: Representative Selections, Volume 3 — Collaboratore — 6 copie
The Grass Harp [1995 film] — Original book — 3 copie
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Wives and Lovers — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Meesters der vertelkunst : zevenenderdig verhalen uit de moderne wereldliteratuur (1975) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Capote, Truman
- Nome legale
- Persons, Truman Streckfus
- Data di nascita
- 1924-09-30
- Data di morte
- 1984-08-25
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Causa della morte
- Liver disease
- Luogo di residenza
- Monroeville, Alabama, USA
New York, New York, USA
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA - Istruzione
- Greenwich High School
Dwight School - Attività lavorative
- writer
- Relazioni
- Lee, Harper (friend)
Murakami, Haruki (translator)
Dunphy, Jack (lover)
Agnelli, Marella (friend) - Organizzazioni
- The New Yorker
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- O. Henry Award (1946)
O. Henry Award (1948)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1959)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1964)
Utenti
Discussioni
June 2015: Truman Capote in Monthly Author Reads (Febbraio 2019)
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote (Bowie's Top 100) in 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (Marzo 2016)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 159
- Opere correlate
- 66
- Utenti
- 50,227
- Popolarità
- #303
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 1,087
- ISBN
- 907
- Lingue
- 29
- Preferito da
- 180
A sangue freddo è il racconto del brutale assassinio di quattro persone, membri della famiglia Clutter, a opera di Perry Smith e Dick Hickock: Capote racconta gli antefatti, il delitto, la ricerca degli assassini e della loro fuga, lo sgomento della gente e infine l’arresto e la fine della vicenda con l’impiccagione dei colpevoli.
È un non-fiction novel molto statunitense, tutto intento nel raccontare come il sogno americano sia fallito (nel 1966, e ancora ne parliamo, pensate un po’ a quanto è coriaceo questo benedetto/maledetto sogno americano!), e molto universale nel descrivere di quanto destabilizzi le persone il delitto apparentemente insensato di brava gente e di come tuttə si convincano che qualcunə nella loro comunità non sia chi dice di essere. Tuttə fierə della propria tranquilla normalità finché non accade qualcosa che la rompe…
Penso che sia molto statunitense anche la determinazione con la quale si cerca di far condannare a morte Smith e Hickock, ignorando perizie psichiatriche e background: è un aspetto che mi ha agghiacciato almeno quanto il delitto, probabilmente perché sono europea e l’articolo 27 della Costituzione italiana mi scorre praticamente nelle vene… La sola idea che in uno Stato di diritto e democratico sia legale far impiccare delle persone, anche se si sono macchiate di delitti orrendi come in questo caso, mi sembra inaccettabile...… (altro)