Truman Capote's First Short Stories

The book that brings together unpublished short stories from the first phase of the literary production of renowned author Truman Capote.

Truman Capote's Early Stories is a collection of previously unpublished short stories discovered in the New York Public Library in 2013. These short, powerful texts demonstrate the author's storytelling talent and empathetic nature. He would become one of the most important writers of the 20th century with the iconic Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood .

If the stories in this book could be read as cinema, they would remind us of Lucrecia Martel's films: the scenes are everyday and almost banal, but as we delve into the stories, the feeling is one of constant tension. The attention to detail would seem unimportant if it weren't one of the driving forces behind our sense of an imminent catastrophe, which could be unleashed at any moment—or even fail to happen. In any case, we become very close to the characters and identify with them, as if the author were touching on life without trying to explain it.