Truman Capote wants to write an epic fiction that is now more popular and tries to achieve a synthesis between myth and event and "in cold blood" that Truman Capote replaces pure fantasy with fact. The story is that of a mass murder by two psychopaths in a small town in Kansas and his narrative helps usher in essentially the style for essays. His mixing style and prose fiction hybrid is much imitated by other journalists and authors and is the precursor of the New Journalism movement.
The book is about the murder of a wealthy businessman, his wife and two sons in Holcomb, Kansas. When he hears the quadruple murder of the clutter family, travels to Kansas with his childhood friend and fellow author Harper Lee.
Together they interviewed local residents and investigators and the killers, Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith, were arrested not long after the murders, Capote ultimately spent six years working on the book. Hood does a lot of research for this job, and once criminals are found, prosecuted and convicted, Capote held personal interviews with Smith and Hickock. Smith fascinates the author above all and in his book he describes him as someone who is more sensitive and conscious guilt of the two killers. Capote never takes notes while interviewing but writes from memory. He also compares "DCA" of American jurisprudence to a gambling. In his book participants range from State courts through the federal courts interminably to finally reach the u.s. Supreme Court. Capote criticises the ways and means by which narrative is a product that is later seen in the executioner's song by Norman Mailer ".
So "in cold blood" gets released in 1966 as a "non-fiction" as Capote essentially puts in his words. Brings fame and literary success and becomes an international bestseller. Although it is regarded as a controversial and a falsehood by some writers real crime, and paves the way for future journalists and writers of stories of real life and establishes the roof as the pioneer of nonfiction novels nowadays.
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