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Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South.
At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully’s Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face—and heart—of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.
At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully’s Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face—and heart—of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.
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"Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation."
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16 人中、15人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
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この本に出会ったのは３７年前、私が１９歳の時でした。
以来、ずっと手許にあって読むのは平均年１回。都度心が慰められます。
主人公少年ジョエルの（心の）旅に心打たれ、街や村そして廃屋や森へと魂は誘われます。
著者カポーティの瑞々しい、それでいてどこか猟奇（美）的な文体は他の本では見出すこと不可と思います。
以来、ずっと手許にあって読むのは平均年１回。都度心が慰められます。
主人公少年ジョエルの（心の）旅に心打たれ、街や村そして廃屋や森へと魂は誘われます。
著者カポーティの瑞々しい、それでいてどこか猟奇（美）的な文体は他の本では見出すこと不可と思います。
訣れ・遡行・遁走がこの本のライトモチーフ。
大都会からディープサウスの中都市へ、そして村へ、森奥の館へ、廃屋へと少年の旅は続き、老人に遇い、少女と語り合う。
物語はそれで終わりでなく、木立に舞う大きな蝶や大雨の観覧車などが少年の眼と心を通して読者に不思議な体験をもたらします。
主人公ジョエルが母を喪くし住む町を離れ、見知らぬ父の住むという未知の国
形式:ペーパーバック
This is Truman Capote's first novel. Before this novel he had written some short stories. He was awarded O. Henry prize at“Miriam”at the age of 21. “Other voices, other rooms”reflects his childhood. He was born in New Orleans to grow up in rural Alabama with the relatives on his mother's side. Desolate land expanded around. Towns were connected through dusty roads. He was all alone among some grownups. He met strange inhabitants and some kids were stupid, sometimes air-head. He amused himself with making his way into the wood to find an abandoned mill. This reminds me some sort of Gothic story. Joel, hero's name of this novel met a similar fate as Capote. After mother's death, he is bound to travel alone to rural South to live with his father, who once abandoned him. This journey to the South traces back to his dark side of his past: his birth, his parents and their living world. He meets twin sisters who have opposite characters, stepmother with disabled hand, peculiar old man and so on. They are also the characters I have found in Gothic story. Having a relationship with these people in Southern countryside, he fills in gaping hole in his mind to find way out boyhood. This novel is one of coming-of-age stories.
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56 人中、54人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
A moving coming-of-age tale
2002/8/17
形式:ペーパーバック
Truman Capote's novel "Other Voices, Other Rooms" opens with the main character, 13-year old Joel Harrison Knox, traveling to the home of his long-estranged father. As the book progresses, Joel becomes more intimately involved with the people of his father's household and of the larger community; there is a stress on oral history as Joel learns their stories. Overall, plot struck me as secondary to character revelation.
The people of Joel's new world are colorful, often pathetic, and sometimes grotesque; at times it really feels like Capote is putting on a human freak show for the thrill-seeking reader. He leads us through a world of decaying old buildings and broken spirits. But Capote always respects the essential humanity of his troubled characters.
There is a pronounced theme of alternative sexuality and/or gender identity throughout the book. Capote establishes this theme early on in his description of the main character. Joel is described as not looking like a "'real' boy": "He was too pretty, too delicate and fair-skinned." "Other Voices" thus has a lot to offer readers with an interest in gender issues as they have been explored in American literature. Capote also does an interesting job of portraying a mixed-race household where the African-American servants are as vividly drawn as the Caucasian family members.
Throughout the book there is some richly descriptive language, as well as intriguing representations of American vernacular English. Although at times "Other Voices" seems more an exercise in style than a fully satisfying narrative, it is for me quite a remarkable coming-of-age story.
23 人中、22人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
One of the most beautiful and haunting books ever written.
1998/7/31
形式:ペーパーバック
This haunting first novel of Truman Capote is a brilliant work. It is a story of youth alienation and coming of age that could be the male companion piece to Carson McCuller's "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter." The story is told in a beautifully lyric style. It follows young Joel after his mother has died when he is sent to live with his father that he has never known. Capote paints a vivid picture of the eccentric family of which Joel finds himself a part. Joel desperately tries to find his way in a world that makes little sense. Capote is a master at making depravity beautiful and haunting without losing the sense of corruption or sugar coating the sadness. He delivers a novel that will forever live with the reader as a voice in the rooms of the soul. It is an exquisitely sad voice but not one that should ever be silenced.
27 人中、24人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
A Message Stuffed Into a Bottle
2005/11/29
形式:ペーパーバック
Published in January 1948 and Capote's second novel (but the first to reach print), this still engaging work was a sensation and best seller that year and has been in print ever since. Like Capote himself, it's one of a kind. A misfit young boy, Joel Knox, the product of a broken home (as was Capote), travels from New Orleans to the backwater town of Noon City, Mississippi in search of his unknown father. After twelve years of separation, his father has supposedly written to Joel's loving aunt in New Orleans and wants Joel back. But Joel, longing for his father's love, finds himself in the decaying hothouse home of his stepmother, Miss Amy, and his clever and perverse cousin Randolph, their black "maid" Zoo, and Zoo's ancient father Jesus Fever. Joel's father is in the house too, but not in the form he anticipated. Two local girls, Florabel and the wild tomboy Idabel, round out the players and are Joel's allies in a threatening world of perversity, mental instability, and sexual ambiguity. Even though he was just 23 when he finished this work, Capote displays tremendous inventiveness, narrative talent, and over-the-top imagery. A coming-of-age story, this work gushes southern atmosphere and contains, in Capote's own words, "a certain anguished, pleading intensity like the message stuffed in a bottle and thrown into the sea." It also is semi-autobiographical, "an attempt to exorcise demons," although Capote claimed many years later that he was unconscious of this when he wrote it. On another level, this work is also about the elusive search for the father, and the discovery that one is all alone, seeking to feel that "everything is going to be all right." As a post-war novel, "Other Voices, Other Rooms" found an audience longing for the same thing, seeking the safety of a benevolent father in a perverse world, and wanting to grow up and find itself.
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