jerryfaust (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jerryfaust) wrote,@ 2009-06-10 21:12:00 |
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Truman Capote
I'm finally getting around to reading the work of the late Truman Capote.
The feature film "Capote", which featured an excellent performance in the title role by Philip Seymour Hoffman, focused on the author's efforts to research and write the landmark non-fiction book In Cold Blood. Perhaps I'll read that famous tome in the future, but I've chosen the debut novel Other Voices, Other Rooms as my entry portal into Capote's world. Like many of my favourite works of fiction, this novel's protagonist is an introverted outsider who undergoes a defining 'coming of age' experience.
Friends and long-term readers of this journal are aware of my regard for Gore Vidal, Capote's lifelong nemesis, so it will be interesting to compare Other Voices, Other Rooms to Vidal's The City and The Pillar; both books are considered to be landmarks of gay literature, and both were published in January 1948.
I'm finally getting around to reading the work of the late Truman Capote.
The feature film "Capote", which featured an excellent performance in the title role by Philip Seymour Hoffman, focused on the author's efforts to research and write the landmark non-fiction book In Cold Blood. Perhaps I'll read that famous tome in the future, but I've chosen the debut novel Other Voices, Other Rooms as my entry portal into Capote's world. Like many of my favourite works of fiction, this novel's protagonist is an introverted outsider who undergoes a defining 'coming of age' experience.
Friends and long-term readers of this journal are aware of my regard for Gore Vidal, Capote's lifelong nemesis, so it will be interesting to compare Other Voices, Other Rooms to Vidal's The City and The Pillar; both books are considered to be landmarks of gay literature, and both were published in January 1948.
