by Truman Capote, Lawrence Grobel · Diogenes Verlag AG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783257216066
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«Ich bin schwul, ich bin süchtig, ich bin ein Genie» is the book of conversations between Truman Capote and Lawrence Grobel, in paperback, 275 pages, in German.
The book is a long conversation between Truman Capote and Lawrence Grobel, held in the writer's final years. Capote talks about his childhood, his early success, his addictions and his homosexuality, and comments with irony on contemporaries such as John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Tennessee Williams and Andy Warhol.
Work originally published in English as «Conversations with Capote» in 1985; this 1988 German edition, from Diogenes Verlag AG, includes a foreword by James A. Michener and a translation by Thomas Lindquist.
For readers interested in Truman Capote, twentieth-century American literature and in-depth interviews with writers.
Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. His work and his life story have been adapted into and have been the subject of more than 20 films and television productions.
