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| I’m a drug addict.I'm homosexual.  \u003Cbr>I’m a genius,\"he writes.He is also an  \u003Cbr>acknowledged master of many literary  \u003Cbr>forms,including short story,novel,  \u003Cbr>drama,film scripts and narrative re-  \u003Cbr>porting.His In Cold Blood can even  \u003Cbr>claim generic responsibility for a new  \u003Cbr>literary form,the“non-fiction novel.”  \u003Cbr>A stalled work in progress,Answered  \u003Cbr>Prayers,may yet turn gossip into an art  \u003Cbr>form.  \u003Cbr>After examining all of his published  \u003Cbr>works,however,Capote concludes  \u003Cbr>that the iimitations of form are respon-  \u003Cbr>sible for his crisis.Never mind the  \u003Cbr>distractions of his incredibly worldly,  \u003Cbr>jet-set life,form is the culprit to blame  \u003Cbr>for never having“completely exploded  \u003Cbr>all the energy and esthetic excitements  \u003Cbr>that material contained.\"  \u003Cbr>Anything to cure a case of writer's  \u003Cbr>block,one supposes,but Capote's pro-  \u003Cbr>nouncements seem particularly naive  \u003Cbr>for someone so obviously gifted.Nev-  \u003Cbr>ertheless,he resolves to create with  \u003Cbr>these new writings a new form which  \u003Cbr>will combine all he knows about every  \u003Cbr>other form of writing because\"a  \u003Cbr>writer ought to have all his colors,all  \u003Cbr>his abilities available on the same  \u003Cbr>palette for mingling.\"  \u003Cbr>Yet the mingling of colors consists of  \u003Cbr>little beyond a switch to first person  \u003Cbr>narrative,with dialogue often pre-  \u003Cbr>sented in screen play form.Moreover,  \u003Cbr>Capote no longer stays outside of his  \u003Cbr>material,which was his brilliant stroke   | with In Cold Blood,but now sets him-  \u003Cbr>self center stage,not only reporter but  \u003Cbr>participant in the action.We find him  \u003Cbr>with his cleaning lady,as together they  \u003Cbr>make her rounds of fashionable New  \u003Cbr>York apartments.He spends an after-  \u003Cbr>noon sipping champagne with Marilyn  \u003Cbr>Monroe in a deserted Chinese res-  \u003Cbr>taurant.In Connecticut he encounters  \u003Cbr>an old lady who reads Jane Austen and  \u003Cbr>keeps a freezer full of dead cats.In a  \u003Cbr>Los Angeles airport he eludes arrest  \u003Cbr>with the help of Pearl Bailey.In the  \u003Cbr>book's longest selection,\"Handcarved  \u003Cbr>Coffins:A Nonfiction Account of an  \u003Cbr>American Crime,\"he participates in a  \u003Cbr>murder investigation.  \u003Cbr>That these new writings often suc-  \u003Cbr>ceed,producing beautifully rendered  \u003Cbr>portraits,owes less to any mingling of  \u003Cbr>colors on a palette than to Capote's un-  \u003Cbr>canny ear,which could have belonged,  \u003Cbr>as Tom Stoppard would say,to a Van  \u003Cbr>Gogh.Capote remains a listening  \u003Cbr>voyeur,brilliantly overhearing,syn-  \u003Cbr>thesizing and capturing in the spoken  \u003Cbr>word glimpses into the soul.With  \u003Cbr>lyrical,carefully controlled brush  \u003Cbr>strokes of dialogue,he reveals the  \u003Cbr>special inner qualities of the characters  \u003Cbr>he sketches.The layering of these  \u003Cbr>writings makes it often impossible to  \u003Cbr>be sure whether Capote is dealing in  \u003Cbr>fact or fiction,but the blurring of real  \u003Cbr>and imaginary in no way diminishes  \u003Cbr>the final effect.  \u003Cbr>In the book's title piece,Capote  \u003Cbr>visits a lady in Martinique who can   |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| MID-LIFE is the season of self-flag-  \u003Cbr>gelation.Under its daffy full moon,  \u003Cbr>some of us punish our bodies for the  \u003Cbr>deceit of growing old by donning  \u003Cbr>sneakers and jogging into the sun-  \u003Cbr>drenched countryside.Others take up  \u003Cbr>ice fishing.For the artist the insanity  \u003Cbr>is less animated but more acute,for its  \u003Cbr>creeps into the creative timbers.  \u003Cbr>Music for Chameleons,a collection  \u003Cbr>of new stories,reporting and conversa-  \u003Cbr>tional portraits by Truman Capote,is  \u003Cbr>the work of a gifted author trying to  \u003Cbr>shore up after a creative crisis.In an  \u003Cbr>embarrassing preface,Capote makes  \u003Cbr>matters worse by admitting it.The  \u003Cbr>crisis,he says,\"altered my entire com-  \u003Cbr>prehension of writing,my attitude  \u003Cbr>toward art and life a","cbCaiokjrFmT20gO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiokjrFmT20gO","pdf",3326923,"English","# Music for Chameleons - Form and Creative Crisis\n## Capote’s New Literary Approach\n## Blending Fact and Fiction","[{\"question\":\"What does the review claim about Capote’s creative crisis?\",\"answer\":\"The review states that Capote sees the limitations of form as responsible for his crisis and his inability to fully unleash creative and aesthetic energy.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the review describe Capote’s technique in the new writings?\",\"answer\":\"It describes a switch to first-person narrative, frequent use of dialogue in screenplay-like form, and 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