Truman Capote Enfant Terrible
Autor Robert Emmet Longen Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 aug 2008
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780826427632
ISBN-10: 0826427634
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0826427634
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Caracteristici
Author is a recognised critic of American and British literature, a commentator on the performing arts and has published over 30 books including editing the American Theatre Wing series.
Cuprins
Introduction1 The Early Years to Capote's Departure for Europe 19492 Nine High School Stories ("Hilda," " If I Forget You," " Lucy," "Saturday Night," "Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child," "Swamp Terror," "The Moth in the Flame," "Miss Belle Rankin," "Louise"); The Tree of Night and Other Stories; Summer Crossing3 Other Voices, Other Rooms4 Travels Including Local Color, Short Fiction, and Reportage5 The Grass Harp--Novel and Play6 The Films: Beat the Devil and Indiscretions of an American Housewife7 Observations - with Photographs by Richard Avedon8 In Cold Blood9 The Late Years in the Public Eye10 Answered PrayersWorksWorks ConsultedIndex
Recenzii
"Truman Capote's offbeat heroine Holly Golightly tells us that she'd "rather have cancer than a dishonest heart." If her creator was theatrical and flamboyant, he was also honest, courageous, uncompromising in his fictions, vignettes, sketches, essays. Robert Emmet Long honors his subject by way of a masterful ability to cut through to the generative poetic centers of the work. Truman Capote: Enfant Terrible is a penetrating and seamless study that illuminates Capote's texts even while dramatizing his presence." - William Heyen, author of Shoah Train: Poems, National Book Award Finalist
'Robert Emmet Long brings his deep cultural knowledge and critical talent to bear on the life and work of an exciting writer. Capote was a major character as well as a creator of characters, and Long makes this showmanship and will and eccentricity a large part of his story. Without making extravagant claims, Long shows how Capote enriched our literary Gothic strain, entranced us with his lyricism, pioneered the non-fiction novel, and left his wit and verve on the essay form. Long's sleek and readable account of all this is memorable.' - David Castronovo, author of Edmund Wilson, a New York Times Notable Book
"Robert Emmet Long's Truman Capote--Enfant Terrible is a lively and lucidly written portrait of the artist and his work. Combining literary scholarship with a sensitive, clear-eyed exploration of Capote's life, Long's analysis is insightful and enlightening. Truman Capote enthusiasts as well as those seeking an introduction to his work will find this an engaging, perceptive and richly rewarding book." - Peter Quinn is the author of Banished Children of Eve (An American Book Award winner)
"Prolific critic Long presents a concise but compelling journey through the works and life of a unique writer in American literature. He begins with a brief and rather shallow sketch of Capote's early life, highlighting his tragic childhood and the relationships the eccentric author maintained with various members of New York's elite. Long draws heavily from Capote's unpublished papers and from Gerald Clarke's Capote: A Biography. This brief sketch, however, sets the stage for a compelling analysis of the effect of the author's tragic life on the gothic nature of his prose. Long brilliantly places each piece in the context of the author's life and of the culture at the time of its release. The book ends with a retrospective contemplation of Capote's influence and place in American letters. Each chapter represents a cogent and concise snapshot of Capote's genius in a specific period, while the entire book becomes a journey through Capote's life, work, and demons placed within the context of American literary culture. Recommended for most libraries." --Library Journal
"Long (a prolific author and journalist) stays away from the controversies raised by recent films dealing with Capote at the time of In Cold Blood (e.g., Capote, 2005). He treats Capote as an important writer and avoids the sideshow that followed the author after his early success...Long's analyses combine textual and autobiographical readings. He is indebted to Gerald Clarke, for writing Capote (1988) and editing Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote...Using Clarke, Long writes about Capote's early life and discusses in detail the early stories, their literary influences, and life experiences that blend into storytelling. Long's readings are fresher than those in Helen Garson's Truman Capote: A Study of the Short Fiction (1992). Summing up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, general readers." -A. Hirsh, CHOICE, December 2008
"A primer for someone unfamiliar with Truman Capote....These discussions...compelling in how they bring in themes and influences of other American writers, such as Hawthorne and James...Long's enthusiasm for Capote's writing is evident." - The Gay & Lesbian Review/Worlwide
'Robert Emmet Long brings his deep cultural knowledge and critical talent to bear on the life and work of an exciting writer. Capote was a major character as well as a creator of characters, and Long makes this showmanship and will and eccentricity a large part of his story. Without making extravagant claims, Long shows how Capote enriched our literary Gothic strain, entranced us with his lyricism, pioneered the non-fiction novel, and left his wit and verve on the essay form. Long's sleek and readable account of all this is memorable.' - David Castronovo, author of Edmund Wilson, a New York Times Notable Book
"Robert Emmet Long's Truman Capote--Enfant Terrible is a lively and lucidly written portrait of the artist and his work. Combining literary scholarship with a sensitive, clear-eyed exploration of Capote's life, Long's analysis is insightful and enlightening. Truman Capote enthusiasts as well as those seeking an introduction to his work will find this an engaging, perceptive and richly rewarding book." - Peter Quinn is the author of Banished Children of Eve (An American Book Award winner)
"Prolific critic Long presents a concise but compelling journey through the works and life of a unique writer in American literature. He begins with a brief and rather shallow sketch of Capote's early life, highlighting his tragic childhood and the relationships the eccentric author maintained with various members of New York's elite. Long draws heavily from Capote's unpublished papers and from Gerald Clarke's Capote: A Biography. This brief sketch, however, sets the stage for a compelling analysis of the effect of the author's tragic life on the gothic nature of his prose. Long brilliantly places each piece in the context of the author's life and of the culture at the time of its release. The book ends with a retrospective contemplation of Capote's influence and place in American letters. Each chapter represents a cogent and concise snapshot of Capote's genius in a specific period, while the entire book becomes a journey through Capote's life, work, and demons placed within the context of American literary culture. Recommended for most libraries." --Library Journal
"Long (a prolific author and journalist) stays away from the controversies raised by recent films dealing with Capote at the time of In Cold Blood (e.g., Capote, 2005). He treats Capote as an important writer and avoids the sideshow that followed the author after his early success...Long's analyses combine textual and autobiographical readings. He is indebted to Gerald Clarke, for writing Capote (1988) and editing Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote...Using Clarke, Long writes about Capote's early life and discusses in detail the early stories, their literary influences, and life experiences that blend into storytelling. Long's readings are fresher than those in Helen Garson's Truman Capote: A Study of the Short Fiction (1992). Summing up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, general readers." -A. Hirsh, CHOICE, December 2008
"A primer for someone unfamiliar with Truman Capote....These discussions...compelling in how they bring in themes and influences of other American writers, such as Hawthorne and James...Long's enthusiasm for Capote's writing is evident." - The Gay & Lesbian Review/Worlwide
Descriere
A short and pungent New Yorker-style profile/extended essay of one of the great literary talents and some would say underachievers of American literature.