Editors find 30 short stories and poems written by unpublished … – Reuters

 Thirty unpublished short stories and poems written by teenage American Truman Capote just been discovered, according to the German newspaper Die Zeit. The texts begin to be published on Thursday

According explains the Die Zeit, in a statement, the director of the German publisher Kein & amp.; Aber, Peter Haag, and the publisher of the work of Truman Capote, Anuschka Roshani, are responsible for the findings.

It is about 20 short stories and a dozen poems that Truman Capote wrote while studying in secondary, between 1935 and 1943 A first selection of these texts will be published for the first time on Thursday in the weekly magazine, ZEITmagazine.

According to the newspaper, those tales, which are often located at the margins of experiences Frequently a teenager, Capote shows already as “a great stylist.”

On 9 October, the magazine will publish four of them. In 2015, the stories will be published in book form in English by Random House, New York, and in German by Kein & amp; Aber.

Considered one of the best writers and thinkers of the USA in the second half of the twentieth century, along with Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer, Capote to fame in 1948 with his first novel, ” Other Voices, Other Sectors “, in which the subject is openly homosexual.

However, the most celebrated is his novel” In Cold Blood “(1966), thanks to the creation of the term romance and nonfiction which was held in 1967 a film adaptation by director Richard Brooks. In 2005, the writer came to life again in the interpretation of Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won an Oscar for best actor for his role in “Capote.”

The brilliant and controversial writer who said ‘I’m an alcoholic, I’m drugged, I’m gay and I’m a genius “, led a life watered by alcohol and drugs, which did not prevent him from revolutionizing the concept of journalism and telling the news facts.

Your growing dependence on psychotropic drugs, combined with alcohol, deteriorated their health and their relationships with many of his friends until he died in 1984 in Los Angeles, a victim of liver cancer

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