by Truman Capote · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433966704
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«Retratos» is a book of literary sketches by Truman Capote, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (168 pages, in Spanish).
Capote's profiles and sketches of celebrities of his time: Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Tennessee Williams, Elizabeth Taylor, Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon, Coco Chanel, Somerset Maugham, Ezra Pound, Mae West, Louis Armstrong, Picasso and Duchamp, among others, seen with a mix of tenderness, irony and admiration.
Compactos Collection, number 239. Sixth edition published on April 18, 2006. Translation by Mauricio Bach, Benito Gómez Ibáñez and Francesc Roca.
A volume for readers of non-fiction and biographies who wish to glimpse Capote's view of twentieth-century personalities.
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.
