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• Title: Truman Capote's In Cold Blood
• Author : Natalie Lewis
• Release Date : January 02, 2006
• Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 244 KB

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Experiencing the incredibility of contemporary reality in the 1960s, many novelists no longer considered realism as an adequate literary form for serious writing. It seemed increasingly difficult to grasp American reality and make it comprehendible: “bourgeois society was breaking up, fragmenting. A novelist could no longer portray a part of that society and hope to capture the Zeitgeist; all he would be left with was one of the broken pieces.”1 Contemporary fiction writers, e.g. John Barth, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, etc., abandoned the idea of a mimetic representation of social life. Before the background of a fragmenting world, the notion of a single universal truth was replaced by the consideration of multiple versions of the truth. Post-modern novelists perceived themselves as constructors of their own version of the world2 and explored new novelistic forms, e.g. meta-fiction, surrealism, fragmentation, science-fiction, fantasy, etc.

The exhaustion of the realist novel created new possibilities for another group of writers. Instead of turning their backs on realism and a mimetic representation of their contemporary environment, the New Journalists of the 1960s and early 1970s were a fitting match for the social upheavals of the time. As Tom Wolfe wrote later about the 1960s:

The Sixties was one of the most extraordinary decades in American history … when manner and morals, styles of living, attitudes toward the world changed the country more crucially than any political events …This whole side of American life that gushed forth when postwar American affluence finally blew the lid off – all this novelists turned away from … That left a huge gap in American letters, a gap big enough to drive an ungainly Reo rig like the New Journalism through3

The post-war rise of television and film production as well as the dramatic social changes of the 1960s caused a renewed interest in factual, documentary material. American readers shifted from traditional fiction to non-fictional forms. Magazine journalism was preferred because of its functional approach to contemporary history and society. Fictional novels and short stories seemed trivial, useless and simply “at odds with a pragmatic, issue-oriented new sensibility”4.

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