· Compulsion By Meyer Levin Fig Tree Books, pages, $ Reviewed by Destiny Guerrero. In Compulsion, originally published in , Meyer Levin strives to answer a question that has lingered with him since the murder of year-old Robert Franks in why did these two boys, his own schoolmates, kill this boy? As Levin indicates in his preface, the narrator, Sid Singer, is Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. 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. 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 .
Levin sued for plagiarism. Meyer wrote the novel Compulsion, inspired by the Leopold and Loeb case. The novel, for which Levin was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America in , was the basis for Levin's own play adaptation and the film based on it, starring Orson Welles. Nearly 60 years ago, Meyer Levin invented the true crime genre with 'Compulsion.' Now, a new edition of Levin's novel reminds us what compelled us to read about one of the 20th century's. 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 Publisher.
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. Compulsion Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Compulsion by Levin, Meyer, Publication date Topics. 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 - not easily confronted at that time.
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