Truman Capote knew first hand the two sides of success. For a long time moved among the cream of society of the time. There was no party or soiree at which he was not present, seizing de ella con su ingenio, locuacidad y su puntito de mala hostia. Podríamos decir, sin lugar a dudas, que era el alma de cualquier fiesta. Pero nada es eterno. La publicación de ‘A sangre fría’ en 1965 cambió su suerte. Capote nunca se recuperó de esa experiencia y quedó marcado de por vida. A partir de ahí: excesos, adicciones y olvido. Apenas escribió nada más en una cuesta abajo que le llevó a dejar este mundo antes de tiempo. Pero antes del fin dejó un puñado de obras maestras eternas, tanto en formato largo como en corto, que nunca envejecerán, que, al contrario que su autor, nunca caerán el olvido.
En ‘Retratos’ nos encontramos con una recopilación parts, more or less short, more or less acute, Capote made over the life of first-level characters from film, literature, art and society of his time. These scattered writings, the first dates from 1956 and the last in 1983 - found halfway between the semblance and gossip, but is always printed with the style that was carrying Capote, making unsubstantiated anecdotes banal moments into works of art .
The 'first part' of the book comprises a series of six articles, the widest and most personal of the entire book.
Jane Bowles, author of 'Two ladies very serious', and Cecil Beaton, a real talent with a camera in hand, describes them as two wandering souls of atypical and nomadic life. In 'The duke in his domain', describes the life of Marlon Brando in Kyoto, where he starred in the film "Sayonara." Under his sharp pen, Brando appears as a complex man, sensitive and intense that it hides itself, and the Zen and Buddhist philosophy and not let anyone near him. Elizabeth Taylor, recently deceased, became the "dream of an inmate" covered by such legendary purple eyes that have marked an era (not very original here you say). She speaks with mutual friends, as the ill-fated actor Montgomery Clift, and witnesses tortuous moments in his relationship with Richard Burton, full of fights in a double suicide as passionate as destructive.
however, are portraits of his friends makes Tennessee Williams and Marilyn Monroe where Capote displays part of his master, creating chapters, I understand, most perfect and beautiful of the whole book.
Marilyn, a being about to break, and Capote are at the funeral of a mutual friend. Marilyn late, as usual, and are forced to sit in the back row. During the funeral, both have a conversation, sometimes profound, hilarious at times, where they mix secrets and lovers everywhere. In a moment of it, Marilyn asked to describe how Capote. Caught by surprise, Truman does not know what to say. It will be time later, at a dock where they are walking around Brooklyn with the silhouette of cutting the horizon, when we finally found the answer: "an adorable creature."
Truman and Tennessee Williams were best friends, with its ups and downs, until Williams' death. His last years were very bad, compounded by the death of his partner and turned into a spiral of sex, alcohol and drugs. But Truman prefers to remind in its heyday, when his plays, like "A Streetcar Named Desire 'triumphed in the theaters of New York.
"But remember now to Tennessee, I think the good times, fun times. He was someone who, despite his inner sadness, never failed to laugh. He had a remarkable smile. Was neither coarse nor vulgar nor particularly strong, just had an amazing local hoarse tone of Mississippi. It is easy to tell when he entered a room, many people who were in it. "
'Observations' is the second and final part of the book was originally published by New York publisher Simon and Schuster in 1959. The project grew out of collaboration between the photographer Richard Avedon and Capote himself. In this part, the reviews are much shorter and serve as a commentary on the photographs that filled the original edition. Too bad that these photos have disappeared from the English edition. Everything's a shame because a lot more would have enriched the text. For those of you curious, you can enter the page Avedon (www.richardavedon.com) in Archive / Portraits and see these photos, along with many others. I assure you, is worth your time.
Returning to the book. In this set, parade depicted, under the pen and in the end, quite disparate personalities, like the Avedon himself, paranoid perfectionism, John Huston, an increasingly Chaplin jaded, Coco Chanel, a little inspired Marcel Duchamp, Mae West, as a strangely unsafe sexual myth, Humphrey Bogart, all militant moralist (¡¿?!); the writer William Somerset Maugham, another writer, Erza Pound, an ' incurable mad ', the fascist ideas led him to jail and their subsequent self-exile or figure that eclipsed everything: Picasso.
the end leave the three portraits that I really liked all this together, like the odd couple formed by the French writers Jean Cocteau - "an old enfant terrible" - and Andre Gide - "an immoral moralist" - where neither was supported. A Louis Armstrong was known Truman being a child and recalls the duo who took a summer to entertain tourists in a boat that plied the Mississippi. And the most beloved, dedicated to Isak Dinesen, author of `Africa` Away, a novel that was the basis for the movie 'Out of Africa'. A woman who broke the mold: adventurer, hunter, lover ... and now in his old age, so fragile and tiny who seems poised to break, but, as in his youth, still attached to life, squeezing with both hands.
In short, `Portraits' is not made just for music lovers, none of that, this book is another way to approach life and times of great characters the hand of one of the best American writers of his generation. Another way to tell their great successes, and their small miseries.
lives of celebrities, the end of the day. But watch out, here the famous if they were famous for something. Writing this review, I've noticed. Hell, Truman, how I miss your insight in these times of steeples and Estébanes. Dog life.
Truman Capote, photographed by Richard Avedon.
New York. October 10, 1955
Portraits Truman Capote
Translations Mauricio Bach, Francesc Roca and Benito Gomez Ibanez
Barcelona: Anagram, 2006
Compact, 239. 163 p.
ISBN: 84-339-6670-4
En ‘Retratos’ nos encontramos con una recopilación parts, more or less short, more or less acute, Capote made over the life of first-level characters from film, literature, art and society of his time. These scattered writings, the first dates from 1956 and the last in 1983 - found halfway between the semblance and gossip, but is always printed with the style that was carrying Capote, making unsubstantiated anecdotes banal moments into works of art .
The 'first part' of the book comprises a series of six articles, the widest and most personal of the entire book.
Jane Bowles, author of 'Two ladies very serious', and Cecil Beaton, a real talent with a camera in hand, describes them as two wandering souls of atypical and nomadic life. In 'The duke in his domain', describes the life of Marlon Brando in Kyoto, where he starred in the film "Sayonara." Under his sharp pen, Brando appears as a complex man, sensitive and intense that it hides itself, and the Zen and Buddhist philosophy and not let anyone near him. Elizabeth Taylor, recently deceased, became the "dream of an inmate" covered by such legendary purple eyes that have marked an era (not very original here you say). She speaks with mutual friends, as the ill-fated actor Montgomery Clift, and witnesses tortuous moments in his relationship with Richard Burton, full of fights in a double suicide as passionate as destructive.
however, are portraits of his friends makes Tennessee Williams and Marilyn Monroe where Capote displays part of his master, creating chapters, I understand, most perfect and beautiful of the whole book.
Marilyn, a being about to break, and Capote are at the funeral of a mutual friend. Marilyn late, as usual, and are forced to sit in the back row. During the funeral, both have a conversation, sometimes profound, hilarious at times, where they mix secrets and lovers everywhere. In a moment of it, Marilyn asked to describe how Capote. Caught by surprise, Truman does not know what to say. It will be time later, at a dock where they are walking around Brooklyn with the silhouette of cutting the horizon, when we finally found the answer: "an adorable creature."
Truman and Tennessee Williams were best friends, with its ups and downs, until Williams' death. His last years were very bad, compounded by the death of his partner and turned into a spiral of sex, alcohol and drugs. But Truman prefers to remind in its heyday, when his plays, like "A Streetcar Named Desire 'triumphed in the theaters of New York.
"But remember now to Tennessee, I think the good times, fun times. He was someone who, despite his inner sadness, never failed to laugh. He had a remarkable smile. Was neither coarse nor vulgar nor particularly strong, just had an amazing local hoarse tone of Mississippi. It is easy to tell when he entered a room, many people who were in it. "
'Observations' is the second and final part of the book was originally published by New York publisher Simon and Schuster in 1959. The project grew out of collaboration between the photographer Richard Avedon and Capote himself. In this part, the reviews are much shorter and serve as a commentary on the photographs that filled the original edition. Too bad that these photos have disappeared from the English edition. Everything's a shame because a lot more would have enriched the text. For those of you curious, you can enter the page Avedon (www.richardavedon.com) in Archive / Portraits and see these photos, along with many others. I assure you, is worth your time.
Returning to the book. In this set, parade depicted, under the pen and in the end, quite disparate personalities, like the Avedon himself, paranoid perfectionism, John Huston, an increasingly Chaplin jaded, Coco Chanel, a little inspired Marcel Duchamp, Mae West, as a strangely unsafe sexual myth, Humphrey Bogart, all militant moralist (¡¿?!); the writer William Somerset Maugham, another writer, Erza Pound, an ' incurable mad ', the fascist ideas led him to jail and their subsequent self-exile or figure that eclipsed everything: Picasso.
the end leave the three portraits that I really liked all this together, like the odd couple formed by the French writers Jean Cocteau - "an old enfant terrible" - and Andre Gide - "an immoral moralist" - where neither was supported. A Louis Armstrong was known Truman being a child and recalls the duo who took a summer to entertain tourists in a boat that plied the Mississippi. And the most beloved, dedicated to Isak Dinesen, author of `Africa` Away, a novel that was the basis for the movie 'Out of Africa'. A woman who broke the mold: adventurer, hunter, lover ... and now in his old age, so fragile and tiny who seems poised to break, but, as in his youth, still attached to life, squeezing with both hands.
In short, `Portraits' is not made just for music lovers, none of that, this book is another way to approach life and times of great characters the hand of one of the best American writers of his generation. Another way to tell their great successes, and their small miseries.
lives of celebrities, the end of the day. But watch out, here the famous if they were famous for something. Writing this review, I've noticed. Hell, Truman, how I miss your insight in these times of steeples and Estébanes. Dog life.
Truman Capote, photographed by Richard Avedon.
New York. October 10, 1955
Portraits Truman Capote
Translations Mauricio Bach, Francesc Roca and Benito Gomez Ibanez
Barcelona: Anagram, 2006
Compact, 239. 163 p.
ISBN: 84-339-6670-4
0 comments:
Post a Comment