NONFICTION NOVEL "IN COLD BLOOD" BY TRUMAN CAPOTE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE AMERICAN NEW JOURNALISM OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
NONFICTION NOVEL "IN COLD BLOOD" BY TRUMAN CAPOTE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE AMERICAN NEW JOURNALISM OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: Truman Streckfus Capote (1924 – 1984) was an American author, screenwriter and playwright. His works defined the specific character of the American literature in the second half of the twentieth century. The article deals with the attempts of studying the nonfiction novel in the light of the phenomenon of New Journalism of the second half of the twentieth century. The article stresses that the author created nonfiction novel using artistic writing based on realism and fiction imagination. The article deals with the premises of the author’s idea of the novel and the essence of the author’s artistic innovations is defined. The novel combines documentary, social psychological, novel account of the absurd, cruel and even motiveless murder.

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