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زائر عيد الشكر
زائر عيد الشكر، مختارات قصصية للكاتب الأمريكي ترومان كابوتي تضم ثماني من أفضل القصص التي كتبها ويعدُّ كابوتي من أهم الكُتَّاب الأمريكيين في النصف الثاني من القرن العشرين. وقد ولد بمدينة نيو أورليانز- ولاية لويزيانا في جنوب الولايات المتحدة. وعاش طفولة مضطربة في ريف ولاية ألاباما بحقبة "الكساد الكبير" بعيدًا عن والديه المطلقين. بدأ عمله الأدبي بكتابة القصص القصيرة، وعندما نُشِرت قصته "ميريام" (متضمنة في هذه المختارات) في إحدى المجلات عام 1945 لفتت الأنظار إليه بقوة، فوقَّعت معه دار نشر "راندوم هاوس" عقدًا لنشر أول أعماله، لتخرج روايته "أصوات أخرى وغرف أخرى" عام 1948. وتوالت بعد ذلك أعماله القصصية والمسرحية، وقُدِم أكثر من 20 منها على شاشتي السينما والتلفزيون وعلى خشبة المسرح. ولعل أشهرها فيلم "إفطار لدي تيفاني" من بطولة أودري هيبورن، كذلك فيلم "بدم بارد" من إخراج ريتشارد بروكس المأخوذ عن روايته البوليسية التسجيلية الشهيرة، وقد تم تصويره في الموقع الحقيقي لارتكاب الجرائم في ريف ولاية كنساس. وعُرف أيضا كابوتي بالصداقة التي ارتبط بها منذ الطفولة مع الكاتبة الأمريكية هاربر لي صاحبة الرواية الشهيرة "أن تقتل طائرًا مغردًا" وفيها تصور الكاتبة جانبًا من طفولتها المشتركة مع كابوتي في ريف ولاية ألاباما.
168 pages
Published January 1, 2023
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Truman Capote
353 books7,448 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.
He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live with his mother and her new husband, Joseph Capote, a Cuban-born businessman. Mr. Capote adopted Truman, legally changing his last name to Capote and enrolling him in private school. After graduating from high school in 1942, Truman Capote began his regular job as a copy boy at The New Yorker. During this time, he also began his career as a writer, publishing many short stories which introduced him into a circle of literary critics. His first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, published in 1948, stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for nine weeks and became controversial because of the photograph of Capote used to promote the novel, posing seductively and gazing into the camera.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Capote remained prolific producing both fiction and non-fiction. His masterpiece, In Cold Blood, a story about the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, was published in 1966 in book form by Random House, became a worldwide success and brought Capote much praise from the literary community. After this success he published rarely and suffered from alcohol addiction. He died in 1984 at age 59.
Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.
He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live with his mother and her new husband, Joseph Capote, a Cuban-born businessman. Mr. Capote adopted Truman, legally changing his last name to Capote and enrolling him in private school. After graduating from high school in 1942, Truman Capote began his regular job as a copy boy at The New Yorker. During this time, he also began his career as a writer, publishing many short stories which introduced him into a circle of literary critics. His first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, published in 1948, stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for nine weeks and became controversial because of the photograph of Capote used to promote the novel, posing seductively and gazing into the camera.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Capote remained prolific producing both fiction and non-fiction. His masterpiece, In Cold Blood, a story about the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, was published in 1966 in book form by Random House, became a worldwide success and brought Capote much praise from the literary community. After this success he published rarely and suffered from alcohol addiction. He died in 1984 at age 59.
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