Novelist Meyer Levin covered the Leopold-Loeb trial as a student reporter and, some 30 years later, returned to the subject - and the reporter´s perspective - in novelized form in Compulsion, published in Fiction allowed Levin to project himself inside the heads of the murderers (Leopold was still alive and in prison at the time), to explore elements in their behavior - such as their homosexual tendencies . Compulsion is a credible portrait of an era, and an early example of an infamous crime turned into compelling fiction.” — Alan Lelchuk, author of American Mischief “Though Truman Capote claimed to have invented a new literary genre with In Cold Blood—a form he called the ‘nonfiction novel’—that distinction truly belongs to Meyer Levin. For nearly a century now, the Leopold and Loeb case has Cited by: 2. Compulsion Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. Compulsion by Levin, Meyer, Publication date Topics Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal, , Loeb, Richard A., , Murderers PublisherUser Interaction Count:
Meyer Levin, a contemporary of the two upper-class Jewish young men, but from a decidedly different Jewish background, fictionalized the story in his novel, "Compulsion", published by Simon Schuster. It was made into a movie of the same name, but the novel has long been out of print. Meyer Levin ( - ) was called by the Los Angeles Times "the most significant American Jewish writer of his times." Norman Mailer referred to him as "one of the best American writers working in the realistic tradition." Throughout his 60 years of professional work, Levin was a constant innovator, reinventing himself and stretching his literary style with remarkable versatility. Meyer Levin's Compulsion is considered the founding classic of the genre of the fictionalized true crime novel, popularized by Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. The events contained in Compulsion are based on a real case, thinly veiled into novel form, with names changed to protect the not-so-innocent. The source of the horror is in the minds.
The basis of the award-winning film starring Orson Welles, Compulsion gives a shocking fictionalized account of the Leopold-Loeb murder case--in which two young graduates of the University of Chicago kidnapped and killed a child for the intellectual challenge. In this retelling of their story, Leopold and Loeb become Judd Steiner and Artie Straus. They are both boy geniuses, and at the tender ages of seventeen and eighteen had already graduated from college. Compulsion is narrated by reporter Sid Silver, who is a fictionalized version of author Meyer Levin, who actually knew Leopold and Loeb. Compulsion Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Compulsion by Levin, Meyer, Publication date Topics.
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