During these days, Anagrama celebrates the centenary of Truman Capote. In addition to organizing two events around his figure, Jorge Herralde’s publishing house publishes an essay about his time on the Costa Brava (The Phantom Difficultyof Leila Warrior) and incorporates three titles from the Truman Capote Library: The grass harptranslated by Joaquín Adsuar, music for chameleonstranslated by Benito Gómez Ibáñez and In cold bloodtranslated by Jesús Zulaika. In addition, we add other books that are close to the biography of the father of New Journalism.
Other voices, other areas
Published by Capote at the age of 23, this first novel, autobiographical in nature, tells how Joel Fox comes to terms with his homosexuality while his life is transformed, since after the death of his mother he goes to live with his father, who abandoned him at birth.
The grass harp
Collin Fenwick, a transcript of Capote himself, is an orphan who has lived with relatives, the Talbos, since the death of his mother. There he witnesses the relationships of Verena, the richest in town, and Dolly, who has mortgaged her life to the care of her sister.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Published in 1958, it is one of the narrator’s most famous novels and tells of the friendship between the protagonist, Holiday (“Holly”) Golightly, a young Texan woman trying to rise in high society, and an anonymous young man trying to be a writer, both tenants. of a Manhattan building.
In cold blood
Started in 1959 and finally published in 1966, this nonfiction novel explains how a family in a rural American town is murdered for no reason and how the murderers are hunted down, tried, and sentenced to death.
music for chameleons
Six stories, one new (Hand carved coffins) and six interviews make up this work of documentary literature in which Capote combines fiction and non-fiction. Of particular interest are the portrait of Marilyn Monroe and the narrator’s shocking self-portrait.
Prayers answered
Corrosive and dazzling portrait of the writer’s best friends from high society, barely disguised with assumed names. After anticipating two chapters, Attended Prayers meant he fell into social ostracism, which is why it was published posthumously.
Books about Capote
Truman Capoteby George Plimpton
bad pass
Unpublished in Spain, the definitive biography of the controversial narrator not only covers the scenes of Capote’s life (Monroeville, New York, Paris) and discovers his addictions (to alcohol, drugs, fame), but also brings together numerous first-class testimonies hand of those who knew him, loved him, detested him, suffered and punished him.
The difficulty of the ghost. Truman Capote on the Costa Bravaby Leila Guerriero
Anagram
At the end of April 1960, Capote arrived by car from France to the Costa Brava with two dogs, a cat, his partner, four thousand pages with notes, documents and transcripts of an investigation that had begun in Kansas at the end of 1959, to transform it into a book that I hoped to finish quickly. Guerriero follows his steps meticulously in an essential little book.
Truman Capote. Regreso a Garden Cityby Nadar y Xavier Bétancour
Astiberri
This graphic novel discovers Capote while he visits the filming of the film based on In cold blood in the real scene of the crimes. However, everything has changed since the writer went to investigate what happened. The town hates the fame that the book has brought them, and Truman immerses himself in his own traumas and anxieties.
