در کمال خونسردی، یک رمان غیرداستانی است که توسط نویسنده آمریکایی ترومن کاپوتی، برای اولین بار در سال ۱۹۶۶ منتشر شده است. این کتاب جزئیات قتل چهار نفر از اعضای خانواده هربرت در جامعه کوچک کشاورزی هلکمب، کانزاس در سال ۱۹۵۹ می باشد.

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In Cold Blood

نویسنده :

   Truman Capote 

     ترومن کاپوتی

سال انتشار :

۱۹۶۶

درباره کتاب در کمال خونسردی نوشته ترومن کاپوتی

 در ۱۵ نوامبر سال ۱۹۵۹ ، در شهر کوچک هالکامب ، کانزاس ، چهار نفر از اعضای خانواده کلاتر به دلیل انفجارهای تفنگ ساچمه ای که چند اینچ از صورت آنها بود ، به طرز وحشیانه ای به قتل رسیدند. هیچ انگیزه مشخصی برای این جنایت وجود نداشت و تقریباً هیچ سرنخی وجود نداشت.

ترومن کاپوتی در حالی که، قتل و تحقیقاتی را که منجر به دستگیری ، محاکمه و اعدام قاتلان شد ، بازسازی می کند ، موفق به خلق تعلیقی حیرت آور و حسی شگفت انگیز از هم ذات پنداری می شود. در مرکز مطالعه او، قاتلان جوان بداخلاق، پری اسمیت و دیک هیکاک قرار دارند که نشان داده می شود متوهم و در عین حال کاملاً ترسناک و انسانی هستند. «در کمال خونسردی» اثری اساسی از نثر مدرن، ترکیبی چشمگیر از مهارت ژورنالیستی و روایتی با انگیزه قدرتمند است .

درباره ترومن کاپوتی:

“ترومن گارسیا کاپوتی” نویسنده، نمایشنامه نویس و بازیگر فقید آمریکایی است که بسیاری از داستان های کوتاه و رمان هایش نظر منتقدین ادبی فراوانی را به خود جلب کرده است. در سال ۱۹۶۷ فیلمی موفق با همین نام روی پرده های سینما رفت و موفقیت های مطلوبی را بدست آورد. همچنین در سال ۱۹۹۶ نیز ، یک مینی سریال با همین عنوان روی آنتن رفت. وی سرانجام در سن ۵۹ سالگی به دلیل بیماری کبد و مصرف نوشیدنی الکلی بیش از حد دیده از جهان فرو بست.

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توضیحات انگلیسی کتاب در کمال خونسردی (In Cold Blood):

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.

As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. At the center of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human. In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative.

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In Cold Blood Quotes

“It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty.”

“As long as you live, there’s always something waiting; and even if it’s bad, and you know it’s bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living.”

“Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.”

“Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity. ”

“You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not quite sure where his appetite lies, a deeply frustrated man striving to project his individuality against a backdrop of rigid conformity. You exist in a half-world suspended between two superstructures, one self-expression and the other self-destruction. You are strong, but there is a flaw in your strength, and unless you learn to control it the flaw will prove stronger than your strength and defeat you. The flaw? Explosive emotional reaction out of all proportion to the occasion. Why? Why this unreasonable anger at the sight of others who are happy or content, this growing contempt for people and the desire to hurt them? All right, you think they’re fools, you despise them because their morals, their happiness is the source of your frustration and resentment. But these are dreadful enemies you carry within yourself–in time destructive as bullets. Mercifully, a bullet kills its victim. This other bacteria, permitted to age, does not kill a man but leaves in its wake the hulk of a creature torn and twisted; there is still fire within his being but it is kept alive by casting upon it faggots of scorn and hate. He may successfully accumulate, but he does not accumulate success, for he is his own enemy and is kept from truly enjoying his achievements.”

“I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.”

“It is easy to ignore the rain if you have a raincoat”

“I despise people who can’t control themselves.”

“Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won’t. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it’s bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living.”

“I’ve tried to believe, but I don’t, I can’t, and there’s no use pretending.”

“The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.”

“There’s got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did. ”

“Those fellows, they’re always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.”

“There is considerable hypocrisy in conventionalism. Any thinking person is aware of this paradox; but in dealing with conventional people it is advantageous to treat them as though they were not hypocrites. It isn’t a question of faithfulness to your own concepts; it is a matter of compromise so that you can remain an individual without the constant threat of conventional pressures.”
― Truman Capote , In Cold Blood

“Her bedroom window overlooked the garden, and now and then, usually when she was “having a bad spell,” Mr. Helm had seen her stand long hours gazing into the garden, as though what she saw bewitched her. (“When I was a girl,” she had once told a friend, “I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things, and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough…”)”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

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