![]() While staying with relatives in New Orleans, Joel is shocked to receive a letter in spidery red ink on green stationery from his father, along with funds to travel to his home in Scully's Landing near Noon City, Alabama. He and his mother were abandoned by his father, Edward Sansom when he was only a year old. Thirteen Joel Harrison Knox is cast adrift when his mother dies. In Capote, biographer Gerald Clarkesaid the novel surpassed Gothic and referred to it as "Swamp Baroque." All the elements are here: a journey from light to darkness, a former resort hotel crumbling into ruin as a result of local legends that guests abandoned their summers there after following others drowning in the lake on the hotel property, among other references to superstition and an unfolding spiral into the grotesque. If you've ever questioned what Southern Gothic literature is, look no further than Other Voices, Other Rooms. My reaction is much different as I write this. In the flurry of a hectic semester, Capote's first novel made little impression on me. Emerson's Southern Literature Class in 1973 at the University of Alabama. I first read Capote's debut novel for Professor O.B. Truman Capote became a literary sensation at a much younger age with the publication of a number of short stories beginning in 1945. Having just re-read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, I returned to Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote, her childhood friend. Rereading it now, I find such self-deception unpardonable.- Truman Capote, The Dogs Bark, New York, Random House, 1973 Other Voices, Other Rooms was an attempt to exorcise demons, an unconscious, altogether intuitive attempt, for I was not aware, except for a few incidents and descriptions, of its being in any serious degree autobiographical. Other Voices, Other Rooms: Capote's Swamp Baroque Concerto in Three Movements
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