Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as grotesque as they were compassionate. Now, on the occasion of what would have been his eightieth birthday, the Modern Library presents the first collection that includes all of Capote’s short fiction–a volume that confirms his status as one of the masters of this form.
Among the selections are “A Tree of Night,” in which an innocent student, sitting on a train beside a slatternly woman and her deaf-mute companion, enters a seductive nightmare that brings back the deepest fears of childhood . . . “House of Flowers,” the inspiration for a celebrated Broadway musical, which tells of a superstitious prostitute who learns to love in a way no one else can ever understand . . . the holiday perennial “A Christmas Memory,” famously adapted into a superb made-for-TV movie . . . and “The Bargain,” Capote’s melancholy, never-before-published 1950 story about a suburban housewife’s shifting fortunes.
From the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and people of Capote’s oeuvre are captured in this first-ever compendium. The Collected Stories of Truman Capote should restore its author to a place above mere celebrity, to the highest levels of American letters.
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世人往往將短篇小說視為“坐傢”把“創作衝動當作創作能力”時“心有餘而力不足”的一種妥協和變通。卻不知往往有一類天纔,在嘗試過各種文本樣式後,雖然也成瞭開宗立派的一代宗師,但每問癡書人,都言其人最齣彩的,往往不是世人推崇備至的所謂“典範”,而是大巧若拙的...
評分世人往往將短篇小說視為“坐傢”把“創作衝動當作創作能力”時“心有餘而力不足”的一種妥協和變通。卻不知往往有一類天纔,在嘗試過各種文本樣式後,雖然也成瞭開宗立派的一代宗師,但每問癡書人,都言其人最齣彩的,往往不是世人推崇備至的所謂“典範”,而是大巧若拙的...
評分世人往往將短篇小說視為“坐傢”把“創作衝動當作創作能力”時“心有餘而力不足”的一種妥協和變通。卻不知往往有一類天纔,在嘗試過各種文本樣式後,雖然也成瞭開宗立派的一代宗師,但每問癡書人,都言其人最齣彩的,往往不是世人推崇備至的所謂“典範”,而是大巧若拙的...
評分世人往往將短篇小說視為“坐傢”把“創作衝動當作創作能力”時“心有餘而力不足”的一種妥協和變通。卻不知往往有一類天纔,在嘗試過各種文本樣式後,雖然也成瞭開宗立派的一代宗師,但每問癡書人,都言其人最齣彩的,往往不是世人推崇備至的所謂“典範”,而是大巧若拙的...
評分世人往往將短篇小說視為“坐傢”把“創作衝動當作創作能力”時“心有餘而力不足”的一種妥協和變通。卻不知往往有一類天纔,在嘗試過各種文本樣式後,雖然也成瞭開宗立派的一代宗師,但每問癡書人,都言其人最齣彩的,往往不是世人推崇備至的所謂“典範”,而是大巧若拙的...
圖書標籤: TrumanCapote 美國 杜魯門·卡波特 小說 外國文學 英文 短篇小說 20世紀
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評分His words fit together so effortlessly. No one in the literary world has his simple elegance. A true southern soul.
評分such a great story teller.
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載