by Truman Capote · Gallimard Education · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070360598
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«De sang-froid» is Truman Capote's non-fiction novel, published by Gallimard Education in paperback (512 pages, in French).
A detailed chronicle of the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959 and its aftermath. Capote delves into the lives of the perpetrators, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, and the impact on the community, combining journalistic investigation with narrative techniques to tell a crime without apparent motive and the complexity of its protagonists.
The French edition of the original work In Cold Blood includes the translation by Raymond Girard and corresponds to number 59 of the Folio collection.
For readers of true crime and narrative journalism who want to approach a classic of the genre; it also appears frequently in reading clubs.
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.
