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How did Truman Capote get away with being a literary giant for so long?
Posted on 2/13/24 at 4:49 pm
Posted on 2/13/24 at 4:49 pm
He made his reputation on a true crime book that turned out to be largely fabricated.
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Posted on 2/13/24 at 6:48 pm to Jim Rockford
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He made his reputation on a true crime book that turned out to be largely fabricated.
It turned out to have fabrications in it, I am not sure if largely fabricated is correct since the general facts of the crime are not in question. Some details are fabricated regarding the interactions of characters, I believe. And even the people who criticize the fabrications then and now acknowledge the book as being superbly written.
If it had been presented as a partially fictionalized "based on" novel rather than non-fiction it would have been just as popular and highly lauded, I believe,
Posted on 2/14/24 at 8:29 am to Jim Rockford
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He made his reputation on a true crime book that turned out to be largely fabricated.
This is a comically bad take. He was winning literary awards in his 20s. Breakfast at Tiffany's was almost a decade before In Cold Blood. If anything, ICB ended his literary career as he devolved into a parody of himself and never finished another novel. He became more of a media figure and less of a writer, drinking, carousing, doing drugs and resting on his laurels for the rest of his life.
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