Tiny Terror - 9780199752041
Un libro in lingua di Schultz William Todd edito da Oxford University Press, 2011
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Truman Capote was one of the most gifted and flamboyant writers of his generation. He's well known for his first two books, Other Voices, Other Rooms and Breakfast at Tiffany's, and for his nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, which most critics called a masterpiece of artistic reportage. What has received comparatively little attention, however, is Capote's last, unfinished book, Answered Prayers, a merciless skewering of cafe society, of the high class women Capote befriended and called his "swans." When excerpts appeared he was immediately blacklisted, ruined socially, labeled a pariah, a traitor. Capote recoiled--disgraced, depressed, virtually friendless. In Tiny Terror, William Todd Schultz, one of the world's most esteemed psychobiographers, examines the perplexing Answered Prayers mystery. Through the use of findings from recent attachment research as well as script theory, Schultz unpacks Capote's early years in the South, his relationship with his doomed, self-obsessed mother Lillie Mae, and his infinitely colorful childhood in Monroeville, Alabama, where he was raised by eccentric, spinsterish aunts. Particular personality patterns are identified, sets of attachment-related strategies that persisted into adulthood and determined much of what Capote did, felt, said, and wrote, including Answered Prayers. What emerges is a cogent, immensely insightful portrait of an artist on the edge, brilliantly but self-destructively biting the manicured jet set hands that fed him. Was Truman human, the literati wondered? He was, according to Schultz, all too human in fact. But he burned, too, his final years a numbed miasma of drugs and alcohol, from which he never recovered.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Tiny Terror
- Sottotitolo: Why Truman Capote (Almost) Wrote Answered Prayers
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Schultz William Todd
- Editore: Oxford University Press
- Collana: Oxford Univ Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 29 Aprile '11
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : Authors, American 20th century Biography Psychoanalysis and literature United States
- Pagine: 175
- ISBN-10: 0199752044
- EAN-13: 9780199752041