英语学习:VOA慢速英语听力：《蒂凡尼的早餐》作者杜鲁门 卡波特[1]
2012-05-28 11:33:38 高考
th the stylistic richness of storytelling. He became interested in a short New York Times report published in November of nineteen fifty-nine.
The report described the murder of a family in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas. A husband, wife and two children had been shot in their home in the middle of the night.
BOB DOUGHTY: Truman Capote immediately traveled to Kansas to learn more about the killings. His childhood friend Harper Lee went with him. Together they spoke with everyone involved in the investigation. They met with police officers and people living in the town. Capote even became friends with the two killers. The writer met with them many times in jail after they were arrested.
Capote spent the next few years researching what would become his next literary project. His book would give a detailed description of the murders. It would explore the effects of the killing on the town. And it would even tell the story from the point of view of the killers.
FAITH LAPIDUS: But Capote became involved in a moral conflict. He could not complete his book until he knew its ending. So, he had to wait until the end of the trial to see if both killers were found guilty and put to death. As a writer he wanted to finish the story.
But as a friend, it was difficult for him to watch the two men die. Capote was torn between his duty towards human life and his duty to his work.
BOB DOUGHTY: Capote worked for six years to produce his book "In Cold Blood." It was finally published in nineteen sixty-six.
It immediately became an international best seller. Truman Capote had invented a whole new kind of writing. He called it the non-fiction novel. He was at the top of his profession.
Here is a recording of Truman Capote from a two thousand five documentary about him. Listen to Capote's small southern voice as he talks about style.
TRUMAN CAPOTE: "I think one has style or one doesn't, but style is one's self. It'
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