New Releases by Truman Capote

Aunque Truman Capote no llegó a escribir su autobiografía, los textos que componen "Los perros ladran", inéditos hasta ahora en nuestro país, son lo más parecido a ello de que disponemos. Constituyen, en palabras del autor, «un mapa en prosa, una geografía escrita de mi vida desde 1942 hasta 1972». Y es que, al principio de su carrera, Capote tuvo una existencia errante que le llevó por Italia, España, Tánger, Haití: sus apuntes sobre esos lugares, junto con sus impresiones del Nueva Orleans y Nueva York de su infancia y adolescencia, bajo el rótulo Color local, dibujan, con pinceladas impregnadas de una peculiar poesía, una perspectiva hasta ahora desconocida del autor. Por sus páginas desfilan personajes conocidos, como André Gide, Cecil Beaton, Colette o Greta Garbo, y también otros anónimos aunque igualmente antológicos, como su inolvidable criada siciliana; Hyppolite, el sorprendente pintor haitiano; y, sobre todo, Lola, el cuervo que fue su mascota durante un año y que protagoniza uno de los textos más extraordinarios de este libro. Integra también el volumen Se oyen las musas, la primera muestra de ese género inventado por Capote, la narrativa de «no ficción», en la que cuenta la gira por Rusia que en 1956 llevó a cabo la Everyman Opera, formada íntegramente por actores de color, representando Porgy and Bess, en una de las primeras iniciativas culturales realizadas por una compañía americana para derretir el Telón de Acero. En ella, la mirada viperina e implacable de Capote nos ofrece un documento de primera magnitud de lo que era la Rusia soviética, en un recorrido por personajes dostoievskianos y situaciones descabelladas a través de un humor rayano a veces en el absurdo. Y, por último, el lector encontrará una pieza titulada «Autorretrato», una autoentrevista en la que Capote nos cuenta, con una sinceridad poco habitual, todo lo que siempre quisimos saber de él y nadie se atrevió a preguntar: sus deseos, frustraciones, gustos y aversiones literarias y personales, y los momentos que, como epifanías joyceanas, respladecen en la memoria de quien fue el último artista de la prosa americana.

Four members of the Clutter family were cruelly murdered on November 15, 1959, in the small hamlet of Holcomb, Kansas, by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no obvious reason for the crime, and there were few hints. Truman Capote recreates the murder and the investigation that led to the criminals'' capture, trial, and execution in one of the earliest non-fiction novels ever written, generating both hypnotic suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a film that goes beyond its time, offering heartbreaking insights into the essence of American violence. Nothing horrible can ever happen at Tiffany''s, Holly Golightly knows. Capote created a lady whose name has become a part of the American language, and whose style has become a part of the literary landscape-her poignancy, wit, and naiveté continue to captivate.

- Al límit de la novel·la, A sang freda es presenta com la «veritable relació d''un assassinat múltiple i les seves conseqüències». Tan controvertida com absorbent, reconstrueix l''assassinat el 1959 d''un granger de Kansas, la seva dona i les seves dues criatures. L''estudi exhaustiu que fa Truman Capote dels assassinats i la investigació que els va seguir explora les circumstàncies que envoltaven aquest crim monstruós i l''efecte i conseqüències que va tenir en la vida dels involucrats. Un estudi al centre del qual trobem els joves Perry Smith i Dick Hickcock, uns assassins que vívidament dibuixats per Capote es mostren aterridorament humans. Estremidora «novel·la de no-ficció» que va consagrar Truman Capote i a la qual va dedicar sis anys seguits de treballs i investigacions, A sang freda, és una obra fundacional de prosa moderna i una extraordinària fusió de geni periodístic i poder narratiu.

Il 15 novembre 1959, nella cittadina di Holcomb, in Kansas, un proprietario terriero, sua moglie e i loro due figli vengono trovati brutalmente assassinati: sangue ovunque, cavi telefonici tagliati e solo pochi dollari rubati. A capo dell''inchiesta c’è l’agente Alvin Dewey, ma tutto ciò che ha sono due impronte, quattro corpi e molte domande. Truman Capote si reca sul luogo dell’omicidio con la sua amica d’infanzia, la scrittrice Harper Lee, e, mentre ricostruisce l’accaduto, le indagini che portano alla cattura, il processo e infine l’esecuzione dei colpevoli Perry Smith e Dick Hickcock, esplora le circostanze di questo terribile crimine e l’effetto che ha avuto sulle persone coinvolte, scavando nella natura più profonda della violenza americana. Non appena il reportage viene pubblicato, prima a puntate sul «New Yorker» nel 1965 e in volume l’anno successivo, Truman Capote diventa una vera celebrità e le vendite si impennano, così come gli inviti ai party più esclusivi e ai salotti televisivi. Ancora oggi, A sangue freddo viene considerato da molti il libro che ha dato origine a un nuovo genere letterario, un’opera rivoluzionaria e affascinante, una combinazione unica di abilità giornalistica e potere immaginativo.

DA QUESTO LIBRO IL FILM CON AUDREY HEPBURN VINCITORE DI 2 PREMI OSCAR Buona fortuna: e credi a me, carissimo Doc, è meglio guardare il cielo che viverci. Uno spazio così vuoto; così vago. Solo un posto dove va a finire il tuono e le cose scompaiono. Quando Colazione da Tiffany venne pubblicato per la prima volta, nel 1958, il «Time» definì la sua eroina Holly Golightly «la gattina più eccitante che la macchina per scrivere di Truman Capote abbia mai creato. È un incrocio tra una Lolita un po’ cresciuta e una giovanissima Zia Mame… sola, ingenua e un po’ impaurita». Da quel momento la sua fama non ha fatto che aumentare: di tutti i suoi personaggi, disse Capote più tardi, lei era la preferita, ed è facile capire perché. Holly è una ragazza del Sud trapiantata a New York, attrice cinematografica mancata, generosa con tutti, consolatrice di carcerati, eterna bambina chiassosa e scanzonata. Audrey Hepburn, con una leggendaria interpretazione cinematografica, le ha dato un volto e una voce indimenticabili, contribuendo a farne un’icona di stile senza tempo che con la sua leggerezza, la sua intelligenza e la sua ingenuità disarmante non ha mai smesso di far innamorare i lettori.

Una novel·la de formació tendra i perspicaç, una peça clau de l’univers literari de l’autor d’A sang freda. L’arpa d’herba és un títol imprescindible en l’obra de Truman Capote, una peça clau del seu univers literari i una mostra reeixida de l’exquisit registre amb què retrata les vivències més intenses. En aquesta novel·la de trets autobiogràfics, Capote relata la història d’una petita comunitat nord-americana els ciments morals de la qual es veuen sacsejats per un episodi insòlit. En Collin Fenwick és un orfe que viu amb dues parentes solteres i solitàries. La Verena, rígida i avara, la dona més rica del poble, i la Dolly, un esperit pur, que ha hipotecat la seva vida per tenir cura de la germana i que només troba gust en les estones que passa amb la Catherine, una negra que du a terme tasques domèstiques, i quan s’ocupa del seu curiós remei contra la hidropesia. La intervenció d’un bergant que deixa pelada la Verena, frustrant de passada les seves expectatives sentimentals, desencadena un esdeveniment central: la Dolly i la Catherine abandonen la casa i s’instal·len, amb el jove Collin, en una precària cabana construïda a la copa d’un arbre. Aquest fet desconcerta la bona societat del poble, entre la qual hi ha un xèrif servil, els animalots de sempre i, no podia ser altrament, el reverend i la seva esposa. Però els improvisats habitants de l’arbre també tenen adeptes, com el jove Henderson i el peculiar jutge Cool, que troba en aquest cas l’oportunitat de redimir la buidor de la seva vida.

Dues dones que elucubren sobre l?art d?assassinar marits, un pres fugitiu, dos nanos perduts en una zona pantanosa, una vella incompresa, una dona negra del sud que viatja a Nova York per fer-hi de cuinera... Són alguns dels personatges dels primers contes de Truman Capote, rescatats recent- ment i reunits en aquest volum. Són les primeres temptatives de qui es va convertir, al cap de poc, en un dels grans narradors del segle XX. Textos d?adolescència i de la primera joventut, des dels relats que van veure la llum a la revista de l?institut on estudiava fins als ambientats ja a Nova York, on es va instal·lar decidit a triomfar com a escriptor. Els originals trobats, amb correccions del mateix autor, mostren la seva obsessió per aconseguir una prosa clara, vigorosa i lleugera alhora. A més, permeten resseguir la construcció d?un univers literari propi ?amb ecos tant del gòtic del sud dels Estats Units com del cosmopolitisme de l?est?, profundament empàtic amb persones en certa manera marginals, en tot cas diferents. I així, en aquestes pàgines hi ha nens i vells solitaris, persones desarrelades i sobretot diversos retrats femenins molt matisats. Per damunt de tot, els primers contes de Capote evidencien de manera rotunda el seu talent.

The early fiction of one of the nation’s most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his teens and early twenties, before he penned such classics as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and In Cold Blood. This collection of more than a dozen pieces showcases the young Capote developing the unique voice and sensibility that would make him one of the twentieth century’s most original writers. Spare yet heartfelt, these stories summon our compassion and feeling at every turn. Capote was always drawn to outsiders—women, children, African Americans, the poor—because he felt like one himself from a very early age. Here we see Capote’s powers of empathy developing as he depicts his characters struggling at the margins of their known worlds. A boy experiences the violence of adulthood when he pursues an escaped convict into the woods. Petty jealousies lead to a life-altering event for a popular girl at Miss Burke’s Academy for Young Ladies. In a time of extraordinary loss, a woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lover’s eyes. In these stories we see early signs of Capote’s genius for creating unforgettable characters built of complexity and yearning. Young women experience the joys and pains of new love. Urbane sophisticates are worn down by cynicism. Children and adults alike seek understanding in a treacherous world. There are tales of crime and violence; of racism and injustice; of poverty and despair. And there are tales of generosity and tenderness; compassion and connection; wit and wonder. Above all there is the developing voice of a writer born in the Deep South who will use and eventually break from that tradition to become a literary figure like no other. With a foreword by the celebrated New Yorker critic Hilton Als, this volume of early stories is essential for understanding how a boy from Monroeville, Alabama, became a legend in American literature. Praise for The Early Stories of Truman Capote “Succeeds at conveying the writer’s youthful rawness . . . These stories capture a moment when Capote was hungry to capture the rural South, the big city, and the subtle emotions that so many around him were determined to keep unspoken.”—USA Today “A window on the young writer’s emerging voice and creativity . . . Capote’s ability to conjure a time, place and mood with just a few sentences is remarkable.”—Associated Press

Die frühesten Geschichten des jungen Capote, die bereits seine Handschrift tragen und den Blick auf den formvollendeten Schriftsteller in neuer, höchst überraschender Weise öffnen

Holly Golightly es, tal vez, el personaje más cautivador creado por este maestro de la seducción que era Truman Capote. Atractiva sin ser linda, tras haber rechazado una carrera de actriz en Hollywood, Holly se convierte en una de las figuras del Nueva York más sofisticado. Mezcla de picardía e inocencia, de astucia y autenticidad, se contenta con vivir el día, sin pasado, no queriendo pertenecer a nada ni a nadie, sintiéndose desterrada en todas partes, soñando siempre en ese paraíso que para ella es Tiffany''s, la famosa joyería neoyorquina. A la novela corta del título la acompañan tres cuentos no menos extraordinarios: Una casa de flores, Una guitarra de diamantes y Un recuerdo navideño. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany''s; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm. This volume also includes three of Capote''s best-known stories, "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory," which the Saturday Review called "one of the most moving stories in our language." It is a tale of two innocents--a small boy and the old woman who is his best friend--whose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.

Truman Capotes neu editierte Werke in der achtbändigen Zürcher Ausgabe im Schmuckschuber

Der Roman, der den jungen Capote berühmt machte

From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), In Cold Blood, and Portraits and Observations Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as compassionate as they were grotesque. This volume is the first to assemble all of Capote’s short fiction—a collection that indeed confirms his status as one of the masters of this form. From the Gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and people of Capote’s oeuvre are captured in this compendium. The Complete Stories of Truman Capote restores its author to a place not only above mere celebrity but to the highest levels of American letters.

From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are In Cold Blood, Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Together in one volume, here are a pair of literary touchstones from Truman Capote’s extraordinary early career: the transcendently popular novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms, the debut novel he published as a twenty-three-year-old prodigy. Of all his characters, Capote once said, Holly Golightly was his favorite. The hillbilly-turned-Manhattanite at the center of Breakfast at Tiffany’s shares not only the author’s philosophy of freedom but also his fears and anxieties. For Holly, the cure is to jump into a taxi and head for Tiffany’s; nothing bad could happen, she believes, amid “that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets.” Other Voices, Other Rooms begins as thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to rural Alabama to live with his estranged father—who is nowhere to be found. Instead, Joel meets his eccentric family and finds a kindred spirit in a defiant little girl. Despite its themes of waylaid hopes and lost innocence, this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel revels in small pleasures and the colorful language of its time and place.

A holiday classic from "one of the greatest writers and most fascinating society figures in American history" (Vanity Fair)! First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection from Truman Capote (In Cold Blood; Breakfast at Tiffany''s) about his rural Alabama boyhood is a perfect gift for Capote''s fans young and old. Seven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin, Miss Sook Falk: "It''s fruitcake weather!" Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship and the memories the two friends share of beloved holiday rituals.

“Witness the coming together of Truman Capote’s voice, the electric-into-neon blaze that is surely one of the premier styles of postwar American literature.”—The Washington Post Book World “A great breezy read . . . with Capote’s trademark wit, but also with genuine youthful awe at the exhilaration of late-forties New York.”—New York A lost treasure only recently found, Truman Capote’s Summer Crossing is a precocious, confident first novel from one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. Set in New York just after World War II, the story follows a young carefree socialite, Grady McNeil, whose parents leave her alone in their Fifth Avenue penthouse for the summer. Left to her own devices, Grady turns up the heat on the secret affair she’s been having with a Brooklyn-born Jewish war veteran who works as a parking lot attendant. As the season passes, the romance turns more serious and morally ambiguous, and Grady must eventually make a series of decisions that will forever affect her life and the lives of everyone around her.

A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story. “To best experience Capote the stylist, one must go back to his short fiction. . . . One experiences as strongly as ever his gift for concrete abstraction and his spectacular observancy.” —The New Yorker Ranging from the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and people of Capote’s oeuvre are here, in stories as elegant as they are heartfelt, as haunting as they are compassionate. Reading them reminds us of the miraculous gifts of a beloved American original.

From the bestselling author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany''s comes the story of three endearing misfits—an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies—who take up residence in a tree house. “Remarkable. . . . Infused with a tender laughter, charming human warmth, [and] a feeling for the positive quality of life.” —New York Herald Tribune Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the tale of three misfits who move into a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the sacredness of love, “that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life.” This volume also includes Capote’s A Tree of Night and Other Stories, which the Washington Post called “unobtrusively beautiful...a superlative book.”

Truman Capote''s bewitching short stories, many of which were set in the Deep South of his youth, are among his finest works. Perceptive, sensitive and eloquent, filled with brooding atmosphere and gorgeous description, these three stories tell of genteel eccentrics, evocative childhood memories and a malevolent nocturnal meeting.

Simplified Chinese edition of Breakfast at Tiffany, the Truman Capote classic. In Simplified Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South. “Intense, brilliant . . . . Capote has an astonishing command . . . a magic all his own.” —The Atlantic At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully’s Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face—and heart—of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.

The first book to collect all of Truman Capotes essays into one volume, including the recently discovered Remembering Willa Cather, this collection chronicles the short nonfiction of one of Americas most beloved writers.

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library''s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote--also available are "Breakfast at Tiffany''s "and" Other Voices, Other Rooms "(in one volume), " Portraits and Observations, "and "The Complete Stories" Truman Capote''s masterpiece, "In Cold Blood, "created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in "The New Yorker" in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the "new journalism." Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. "I thought he was a very nice gentleman," he says of Herb Clutter. "Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat." Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers'' flight, Capote''s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.

El último libro publicado en vida de Truman Capote. Música para camaleones, un libro que Truman Capote presenta como una obra de literatura documental, bucea con implacable lucidez en la poesía y el horror de la vida; es el espléndido resultado de una necesidad de comunicación directa entre lector y materia narrativa, que Truman Capote buscó febrilmente para conseguir una escritura «sencilla y límpida como un arroyo de montaña». Una prosa en la que pudiera mantenerse al margen del tema tratado, sin influir con su estilo, juicios y opiniones. En palabras suyas: hacer del lector un observador o, mejor aún, el testigo de una experiencia verdadera que, contada bajo tal óptica, resultara mucho más subyugante que si el autor la interpretase al modo clásico. El libro está dividido en tres partes. En primer lugar, seis breves piezas iniciales de magistral concepción y ejecución. Luego, una novela corta, «Ataúdes tallados a mano», lleva a sus últimas consecuencias el enfoque testimonial de A sangre fría y relata la espeluznante historia de Quinn, un psicópata solipsista que se dedica a asesinar macabramente a los jurados que en un juicio han votado en su contra. Finalmente, siete «Conversaciones y retratos», entre los cuales destacan el magistral texto en el que Capote acompaña a una asistenta en «un día de trabajo» limpiando domicilios, la estremecedora entrevista a un maníaco asesino recluido en San Quintín, la agridulce y famosa semblanza de Marilyn Monroe y, desde luego, el desgarrador autorretrato del autor y su imaginario gemelo, en el que afirmó: «Soy alcohólico. Soy drogadicto. Soy homosexual. Soy un genio.»

Truman Capote was hailed as one the most meticulous writers in American letters–a part of the Capote mystique is that his precise writing seemed to exist apart from his chaotic life. While the measure of Capote as a writer is best taken through his work, Capote the person is best understood in his personal correspondence with friends, colleagues, lovers, and rivals. In Too Brief a Treat, the acclaimed biographer Gerald Clarke brings together for the first time the private letters of Truman Capote. Encompassing more than four decades, these letters reveal the inner life of one of the twentieth century’s most intriguing personalities. As Clarke notes in his Introduction, Capote was an inveterate letter writer who both loved and craved love without inhibition. He wrote letters as he spoke: emphatically, spontaneously, and without reservation. He also wrote them at a breakneck pace, unconcerned with posterity. Thus, in this volume we have perhaps the closest thing possible to an elusive treasure: a Capote autobiography. Through his letters to the likes of William Styron, Gloria Vanderbilt, his publishers and editors, his longtime companion and lover Jack Dunphy, and others, we see Capote in all his life’s phases–the uncannily self-possessed na•f who jumped headlong into the dynamic post—World War Two New York literary scene and the more mature, established Capote of the 1950s. Then there is the Capote of the early 1960s, immersed in the research and writing of his masterpiece, In Cold Blood. Capote’s correspondence with Kansas detective Alvin Dewey, and with Perry Smith, one of the killers profiled in that work, demonstrates Capote’s intense devotion to his craft, while his letters to friends like Cecil Beaton show Capote giddy with his emergence as a flamboyant mass media celebrity after that book’s publication. Finally, we see Capote later in his life, as things seemed to be unraveling: when he is disillusioned, isolated by his substance abuse and by personal rivalries. (Ever effusive with praise and affection, Capote could nevertheless carry a grudge like few others). Too Brief a Treat is that uncommon book that gives us a literary titan’s unvarnished thoughts. It is both Gerald Clarke’s labor of love and a surpassing work of literary history.