What was heaven to Truman?
I think he thought he was there for a while.
And if he did not stay, at least he arrived, wrote and descended.
The words of the legendary presenter
Johnny Carson
define well
Truman Capote's
passage
through the
New York
jet set
: an unquestionable member, organizer of the best dances and defenestrated after the "poisonous attack", as defined by
Lise Friedman
in
Vogue
, from
Prayers attended
.
When a manuscript ended the social life of one of the great writers of the
20th century, that's the scenario that draws
Capote Tapes
, the documentary on the life of the author of
Cold-blooded
and his never-finished novel that Filmin premieres in Spain on Wednesday, March 24.
The writer's look at his party companions in the 50s and 60s, his most intimate passions and the secrets of his private life.
The work that dragged him to depression, confinement and the end of the literary career of the creator of the non-fiction novel.
But why that ending?
Why reveal the secrets of
Lauren bacall
,
Tennessee Williams
,
Ann woodward
,
Gloria Vanderbilt
or
Babe Paley
?
His childhood and maternal suicide
To get to the "betrayal", as defined by some involved, there are two intermediate stops: his childhood and the suicide of his mother,
Lillie mae faulk
.
Abandoned by his parents, Capote's childhood is marked by a farm in
Alabama
together with his aunt Sook, from whom he will keep a box of cookies until his death, an unwelcoming environment for a boy already with a marked homosexual tendency.
There he will live until his departure to
New York
with her mother and her second husband.
"Without that childhood of sadness and loneliness, which helped him to form his personality, surely we would not have his life as a writer", details the director of the documentary,
Ebs Burnough
That will be the first point, which will also lead you to connect with
Perry smith
and light up
Cold-blooded
.
The second will be his mother and suicide.
A mother figure far removed from women in the southern United States at that time: "attractive," "sexual," "drinker," "addicted to pills."
Those are some of the expressions that are associated with Lillie Mae in her rise to the
jet set
New York and that will also be seen in
Holly golightly
, protagonist of
Breakfast with diamonds
and his mother's alter ego.
"Truman understood that what killed his mother was his aspiration to enter the upper class and felt that his mother should be avenged," recounted in the documentary.
Its descents
Thus, it will be the cocktail of his childhood, revenge, the eagerness to tell what he lived and his entertainment role among the characters of high society that lead Capote to immerse himself in
Answered prayers
.
"People don't love me, people are fascinated by me, they entertain themselves with me but they don't love me," the writer himself is heard exposing during the film.
When the second chapter of his manuscript was published in the journal
Esquire
, the novelist was expelled from all his social circles.
The end was never known. Until then, the doors of the best restaurants opened in his wake;
the most luxurious yachts were at his disposal, and the best dances of the
hotel Plaza
, with guests from all over the world covered in masks, they ran to their account.
But his attempts to emulate
Proust
with your own
In Search of Lost Time
They took him out of those social circles, they cloistered him in his apartment except for the nights of alcohol and drugs in
Studio 54
and his literary productivity was cut off until his death in 1984. He never saw published
Answered prayers
.
And the world still awaits the end.
If it was written.
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