“Truman Capot, Ek Interview” by Cathleen Medwick was originally published in Vogue’s December 1979 issue.
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Truman Capot knows how to make an entrance. He has always been known. In 1948, when he published his first book- a slim siren of a novel Other voices, other rooms-He was just a sensation. This was not just the juicy beauty of his prose, his uncertain mastery. It was also that the jacket of the book displayed a picture of an unknown young writer: a delicate yellow young man was recurring on a chase lounge, his eyes were stimulated on camera. They were the eyes of a lover, or a killer. A hard face, as a friend has said. The Truman Capot in Twenty was New Orleans Country Boy, who came to the big city and knew about the quiet country, how, seduced it. It was an artistic temptation: such as Truman, a boy fishing in a huge pond, saw a great, elusive fish and simply knew to get it: shiny fodder (himself) checked his hooks and waited with the patience of the saints. When he caught that fish, fame, he suddenly caught it, and to keep it. His talent was, of course, hook. Without it, he could never join the rank in front of contemporary Southern writers- Porter, Welty, McCler- and stayed there, as one of the largest literary talents in America, for more than thirty years.
Since the boy on the book jacket, we have seen many capsot. Like a wizard, he is always considering new size, new disguise. A small in a gray pinstrip suit and black-rim glasses, Daper Capot, in 1954 led a gelatinus Marilyn Munro in a dance in El Morocco. A beaming, black-tie capot in a black mask (social butterfly), he for $ 75,000 for a jet set, he then said, to go to a party where he could do In fact have a good time. A thin, Dowdier Capot (one of his friends said that his pants always looked baggie, as he was whispering into a donkey with a shovel) getting horrific in San Quentin, where he was interviewing the killers in 1972 – a Kansas after a detailed description of the murder, after a detailed description of the murder, after the years of killing a Kansas, after the killing of a Kansas, a Kansas, after the killing of a Kansas, kill In cold bloodEstablished him as a major force in American writing (Capot the serious author). In 1976 film wearing a plump, porsin capot and shades Murder to death (Capot the movie star). A betrayal and combative capot, after the chapters of their upcoming book Answer the prayerA thin disguised story about his jet-set friends was published in, SirAnd beautiful people closed their doors on it. Finally (it seemed then), a down-end-out Capot accepted his addictions for drugs and stanley drinks on the seagel talk show, and expressing the intention of overcoming his addictions-Agat-Again he did not accidentally kill herself.
These were images that the press had fed to the public for years. Or, rather, the images that captivated fed the press. But no matter how many masks he had received, each new Capot shocked the public and gave it a title, there was always a backbone of achievement that made more capoats than fodder for gossip columnists, or its predecessor friends. There was always a new job, and it was always good. Capot’s writing, like his public image, was capable of endless changes. Out of prose-style of ghostly Grass veena And early stories disturbed a new literary style – a kind of reporting that revealed the reality to be more strange, to be more spectacular than the story. In cold blood (Like its author) was impossible, shocking and ignoring. Since Capot’s own life became a fictitious story more than ever, because “small terror” intensified his claws on Gor Vidal and other opponents, as his social status fell, public hunger for Capot’s prose became even more kener. Today, he was promised for the first time after more than ten years, future readers Answer the prayer Still licking their chops with anticipation. Fame and notorious have always reflected each other in Capot’s life, and still do, like Seiami twins, he uses as his literary personality nowadays: Capot, meets Capot. Janus face, killer and saint.
