DISCUSSIONS AND PORTRAITS

DISCUSSIONS AND PORTRAITS

If someone ever asked you what I was like, what Marilyn Monroe was really like – well, what would you say?

In April 1955, Truman Capote and Marilyn Monroe meet at the funeral of an old actress and the two go for a long walk in New York. Seventeen years later, the author talks in San Quentin prison with Bob Beausoleil, the man for whose sake Sharon Tate and four other innocents were murdered by the Manson family. And at the end of the 70s, Capote lives an unforgettable experience accompanying a religious black cleaner who banishes the burdens of life with the help of marijuana.

Three very different conversations, and three of Truman Capote's most distinctive writing moments, that impress themselves directly on the mind like a confidential whisper in a packed room.

About the author:

Truman Capote was born in New Orleans on September 30, 1924, and grew up in New York with his mother and her second husband, a Cuban businessman whose surname he took. Capote established himself on the literary scene with his first short stories, published in Harper's Bazaar. He also wrote novels, short stories, plays, film scripts and travelogues and associated with a wide range of artists, writers and dignitaries, attracting media attention with his extroverted life. He died on August 25, 1984, after years of drug and alcohol problems. The Truman Capote Collection, with his manuscripts and typescripts, is housed in the New York Public Library.

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• The Opening – Sigmund Freud
• The Prophet – Khalil Gibran
• Literary Eutrapelas – Stephen Leacock
• The Bible of the Chosen – Robert Athlyi Rogers
• Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu
• Responses from the Trenches of the 20th^u Century – George Orwell
• Civil Disobedience – Henry David Thoreau
• Walking – Henry David Thoreau
• The Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Man – Jerome K. Jerome
• If – Rudyard Kipling
• The Book of Tea – Kakuzo Okakura
• The Book of Five Circles – Miyamoto Musashi
• The Art of War – Sun Tzu
• The Ruler – Niccolò Machiavelli
• The Art of Always Being Right - Arthur Schopenhauer
• The Recognition of the Rights of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft