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2.2. Veracity of non-fiction crime in the example of "In Cold Blood".
The “cold-blooded” Capote brought great praise to the literary community, but there were also those who questioned some of the events described in the book. Philip K. Tompkins, who wrote for Esquire in 1966, noted the actual discrepancies after traveling to Kansas and interviewing some of the people Capote interviewed. In a telephone conversation with Tompkins, Meyer denied hearing that Mrs. Perry was crying and holding her hand as Capote described. Cold blood showed Meyer and Perry getting closer, but he told Tompkins that he spent less time with Perry and talked less with her. Tompkins concluded:
In short, the hood created a work of art. In his own way, he told the great horror very well. But despite his brilliant efforts to promote himself, he made both a tactical and moral error that hurt him in the short term. Emphasizing that “every word” in his book was true, he left himself defenseless in front of readers who were willing to seriously study such a comprehensive statement.
Criminal writer Jack Olsen also commented on the fabrications:
I recognized it as a work of art, but when I saw it, I recognized something fake, Olsen said. Capote is completely fabricated quotes and whole scenes ... The book made about $ 6 million in the 1960s and no one wanted to discuss anything. That's not the case with a publisher with that kind of income. " No one but Olsen and others. His criticism was quoted in the Esquire publication , to which Capote replied: "Jack Olsen is just jealous." “Of course it was true,” Olsen said, “I was jealous - for the money? the book did two things. It made real crime an interesting, successful, commercial genre, but it also began the process of destroying it. I whistled in my weak path. no one wanted to hear about it because it was a very well written book.
cold-blooded Kansas Bureau of Investigation detective who later visited Clutters ’tombs, said the last scene was Capote’s invention, while other Kansas residents who spoke to Capote claimed they or their relatives had been misrepresented. or incorrectly cited. Dewey and his wife, Marie Capote, were in Kansas collecting research for their book. Dewey Hood was given access to case materials and other things related to the investigation, as well as members of the Klutter family, including Nancy Klutter’s diary. When the film version of the book was created in 1967, Capote offered Marie Dewey $ 10,000 from Columbia Pictures as a paid consultant to shoot the film.
It was later revealed that another piece, described by Capote as “non-fantastic,” was mostly fiction. In a 1992 article in The Sunday Times, journalists Peter and Leni Gillman quoted Capote's latest work, " Music for Chameleons ," as a source for "handmade coffins" entitled "American Crime Documentary Information." examined. They could not find in all the details described by Capot in the same city - reports of a series of American murders, including the sending of miniature coffins, the killing of a strangled snake, the beheading, and so on. Instead, they clearly reflected an event where the details were not resolved. a case being investigated by investigator Al Dewey. They concluded that Capote had devised the rest of the story, including his encounter with the murder suspect, Quinn.
The hood was openly gay. One of his first serious lovers was Newton Arvin, a professor of literature at Smith College, who won the National Book Award in 1951 for his biography of Herman Melville, and the hood dedicated him to "Other Voices, Other Rooms . " However, Capot spent most of his life working with writer Jack Danfi until his death. Memories of my life with Truman Capot in the book "Dear genius ..." Dunfi also tries to explain the Captain, whom he knows and loves in their relationship, based on the success that exists outside of their relationship and ultimately the addict himself. This is probably the most profound and sincere look at Capot’s life beyond his work. Although Capote and Danfie’s relationship lasted most of Capot’s life , it seems that both of them sometimes lived separate lives. Their sometimes separate residences allowed for autonomy in the relationship, and Dunfi admits , "Save her from the pain of drinking a hood and watching her use drugs."
The hood was famous for its distinctive loud voice and bizarre vocal manners, unusual dress, and fiction. He said he often knew people he had never met, such as Greta Garbo, intimately. She claimed to have had many relationships with men who were considered heterosexual, including Errol Flynn. He has traveled in a variety of social circles, meeting writers, critics, business magnates, philanthropists, Hollywood and theater celebrities, members of the royal family, and high society representatives both in the U.S. and abroad. Part of his public personality was a long-running rivalry with writer Gore Vidal. Their rivalry prompted Tennessee Williams to complain: "You think they're fighting for some great gold award." In addition to his favorite authors (Villa Keter, Isaac Dinesen, and Marcel Proust), the hood also weakly praised other writers. However, his positive approval was received by journalist Lacey Fosburg , author of Closing Time: The True Story of Goodbar's Murder ( 1977). He also said he admires Andy Warhol’s book Andy Warhol’s Philosophy: A to B and Back .
Although Capote never fully supported the gay rights movement, his openness to homosexuality and his encouragement of openness towards others made him an important player in the field of gay rights. Jeff Solomon, in his article “The Hood and the Trillings: Homophobia and Medieval Literary Culture,” details Capote and Lionel and Diana Trilling - a meeting between two New York intellectuals and literary critics - in which Capote doubts Lionel’s motives. and he recently published his book. EM Forster, however, ignored the author’s homosexuality. Solomon says:
Trilling on the train , he is a literary and social critic, loyal to literature as a tool of social justice, able to challenge both their own and society’s misconceptions, wronged by his legacy and heritage. settings attack as a person who is sensitive to views. , In Diana's case, according to her gender.
Capote, who is now more in demand than ever, has written short reviews for magazines from time to time, as well as delved deeper into the elite world. Gore Vidal once said, " Truman Capote has somehow successfully tried to get into a world where I want to get out with some success ."
befriended Lee Radziwill , sister of Onassis. Radziwill was an aspiring actress, and her role in the Chicago -based film The Philadelphia Story was heavily criticized. Capote was commissioned in 1967 to write a TV show for a television play starring Radziwill : an adaptation of Otto Preminger's classic " Laura" (1944). Adaptation, and Radziwill’s performance in particular, received indifferent comments and low ratings; This could be Capote’s first major professional failure. For the most part in the 1970s, Radziwill replaced the elderly Babe Paley as his main public companion.
On November 28, 1966, in honor of Catherine Graham, publisher of The Washington Post , Capot held a legendary masquerade ball called the Black and White Ball in the Great Ball Hall of the Plaza Hotel in New York. It’s not just the current season, but a social event for many to come, and The New York Times and other publications have covered it extensively. Capote waved valuable invitations for months, shrugging the shoulders of his early supporters, such as southern writer Carson McCalllers, to determine who was “in” and who was “out”. ^[51]
Despite claiming at the beginning of his life that he “lost an IQ score for every year he spent on the West Coast,” he bought a home in Palm Springs and began living a more aimless life and drinking. This led to a bitter disagreement with Dunfi, who had a non-exclusive relationship since the 1950s . Their partnership changed form and continued without sex, and they divorced for much of the 1970s.
never finished a novel after the cold blood . Lack of rejected scripts for Paramount Pictures, including new prose and other failures . In 1974, the adaptation of The Great Gatsby was opposed by Capot’s frequent appearances on talk shows. In 1972, Capote accompanied The Rolling Stones as a Rolling Stone reporter on his first American tour since 1969 . Eventually, he refused to write the article, so the magazine played its interest in April 1973 by publishing an interview with the author, conducted by Andy Warhol. A previously published collection of essays and reports , “The Wandering Dog: Public People and Private Areas ,” appeared later that year.
In July 1973, when Capot visited a New York bathroom, he met John O'Shea, a middle-aged vice president of the Long Island branch of the Marine Midland Bank. The father of three married children did not specify whether he was gay or bisexual, and described his visit as "a form of masturbation." ^{[ edit ]} However, O'Shaughnessy tempted Capot's wealth and concentrated his efforts on becoming a professional writer. After ending their relationship at Palm Springs, the two continued a war of jealousy and manipulation for a decade.