European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 2, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes tuesday september 2, 1980 Modem living i have absolutely no fear of ceasing to  i did like Kyoto breakfast at Truman capote s by Peter Costa United press International of can Tell a True Genius Jonathan Swift wrote by the confederacy of dunces in league against him. The confederacy poised against author tru Man capote is roman legion Large and reflect the scope of the 56-year-old author s True Talent. When i released the firs six chapters of answered prayers the Book that tells All about Many still living Jet set personalities there was such a screaming he said Hii Blue eyes narrowing mischievously. On the preface Page of answered prayers i am using a quote from Albert Camus i Seldom use quotes in my books but this one says that one never says one Quarter of what one knows and there is such a  until the whole Book is out the howls will be tre  he sat on a Long gracefully curved Couch in he new York apartment and gazed out floor to ceiling window sat the East River traffic gliding 22 floors below. He bad granted the Laterrier to discuss fall new Book Masic for Chat Meltsas published by random House. Before him covering a purple tiled 4-foot-Square cof fee table were objects d Arl and Flowers. It was a virtual Proust an remembrance of things past. Coiled snakes a Large Gray Rattler a Black cobra and a Small Garter Snake three Glass Piggy Banks filled with coins a pair of old show Trees Glass fish and turtles Bead work belts All were carefully placed like artefacts from Complex mental archaeology. I have quite a few houses and looking for objects urn uses me. It is my favorite form of exercise i swim also but i do an awful lot of walking looking for  he has a Beach House in Lorg Island one in Switzer land one in California and others. Of All the places he has lived he dislikes Southern California most. It s like living in Forest Lawn. There is no intellectual life Only going to the studio and coming from the studio. San Francisco has a cozy drama to it but it is one of the most provincial cities in the world. It s like a Carousel one sees the same people Over and Over in about 10days." i think Paris is very Boring Rome is just a Small town pretending to be a City. In Moscow i die of sheer bore Dom Venice is a gradually dying museum and Tokyo is hell on Earth. I did like Kyoto however the parts of it  like Frank Sinatra new York is capote s kind of town. It s the Only City i know that is a City City it is going 24 hours a a. If you want to buy a Book at 4 inthe morning you can buy a  he was dressed in a modified Mao shirt White pants soft Brown shoes no socks. He wore a Maroon hat at the beginning but took it off shortly after the interview be Gan. He spoke Dilibe Raeljr painfully slowly in a Chart like cadence Witk by Mandy Laboured intonation and orly Long syllables. It was at if us Nice were being altered by a to a odium effect or delayed Loop problem in a cout to coast tick phone Cao. As the author of such immensely successful books As Brest Matt Tiffany a Ofner voices other rooms and in cold blood he was asked what he Felt was his next goal. There Are three or four writers left in my generation in this race and i have this feeling that i am going to win it do Ulm he looked out at the River and spoke about the Lone Liness of living in the country and its attending anxiety. I have had a House in Switzerland since i9s6 but after a few weeks there i gel slightly Tir crazy. In tha Village there were Only three people i really liked and do you know All three committed suicide. And i know Why they did. It was t for anything specific. It s something i have myself extreme anxiety. I be had it since i be been a child. It flows Down for Long periods of time it never really leaves but when it reaches this other level where it becomes a form of ill Ness the anxiety becomes  he suffers from a physical problem he called i Otil Dou cur. It s a nerve thing in my Eye that is unutterably painful. Pain killers Don t help. He was asked whether he thought Norman Mailer who was also a very Young Success and now an anxious Public awaits his promised big work had lost his Talent or squandered it. I Don t think Norman lost anything i think he found something. Norman was never a Good novelist. Norman is a very very Good literary critic even though he has some foolish ideas. His really Strong Talent was for reportage. I like him As a person he is a very Good writer but he was miscast in that role of novelist  capote finds it an Long that contemporary writ ers who once criticized him for uniting what he called the Nob Fly the novel Art Bow writing late Al pieces using techniques from other Corea. When i wrote in cold blood Manv were critical. I spent six Yean a that Book wandering the Plains of Kansas and nearly  mad but i saw it t rough. Mailer called it a failure of the imagination und now i see that the Only prizes . Wins Are for Itiat very same kind of writing. I m glad i was of some Fra i service  or smiled wickedly. He was asked to discuss his personal feud with author Gore Vidal. Gore s idiotic Law suit against me has Triy Cost me a lot of Money but i Don t have any har i feelings about Gore. I think Gore Vidal is a Man with a first rate mind who if he used it As an essayist and critic where he genuinely excels would be an important figure in Amer ican cultural life instead of being a peripheral and medi Ocre novelist does be still think pm Sung was controlled by what Vears ago be had called jewish literary Matlaf Well time passes. There was a time that All publications were edited and controlled by jewish intellectuals and jewish tycoons and they therefore Over a period of s years pushed for jewish writers. I never thought of it As a conspiracy rather a kind of camaraderie that said at last we re going to push every jewish writer and Saul Bellow is going to win a Nobel prize and Arthur Miller and Norman Mailer will get pulitzer prizes year after  he said All this Bas changed in the last four years. They tried to make a hero of Philip Roth but he s a very uneven writer. They lost their hero  he was acidly critical about some publishing houses. I would sooner take a manuscript and throw it in a sewer than have it published by Doubleday. They will publish  he got up from the Couch and moved to an adjoining sitting room. On a stand were pictures from his past Ana a Large fan. He picked up the fan and gently set it Back Down. He was a Man who believed in a calculus of finite differences and for whom everything had a physical Aswell As temporal place. This picture was taken of me by Cartier Bresson when i was 1 8 and i think it is a psychological statement. Don t you see this picture a Beautiful portrait of a handsome but unsmiling Young capote a really the inner person getting out from inside this  he sat Down on a Small Couch in the sitting room an sighed. I am Well but very tired. I have been under a great Many  he stood up suddenly and picked up a Large brow Pillow and huffed it with gentle pats. This Pillow was designed drawn and the actual Nee " do work was done for me by Jean Cocteau he said. Of Cortes noted bit own mortal of accomplish if to Lewyta a Lotof Dot. I have absolutely no fear of ceasing to exist not atall. I would just Uke to finish what i be worked on so Long. But i m so tired. I Start working about 10 in tha evening and work to four or five in the morning. I have Long conversations with people on the phone. I Don t no out to restaurants or night clubs anymore spec boy since studio 54 has closed but it was my idea Otrhal a Mph club should be like. J have had a Row with Lee Kidzia will. Of course As you know but still All those people Are still friends of   a � 1 e four person literary race drifted a in thought and one imagined him crossing Tbs. A Smilin that in Pun mile telling everyone what they already knew he was destined to win