Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella)

Breakfast at Tiffany's (AKA Breakfast at Tiffany's ) is a 1958 published short novel by Truman Capote.

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The book is about the life of an eccentric party girls, the nineteen -year-old Holly Golightly, told from the perspective of her neighbor and friend who loves them and admired for their contagious vitality, ultimately promotes the truth about her carefully hidden origin revealed and the only one really stands out to her. She is penniless, but suggests bravely with cheeky charm and surprising ingenuity through the life of New Yorkers on the Upper East Side, lets her admirer starving outstretched arm, they still rotate the bags around, can be had for any nonsense and is always when the "red misery " (or " reds " ) comes over, to jump to the jewelry store Tiffany on Fifth Avenue, the only place in the world where she feels comfortable.

Holly Golightly ( German as " Take it easy " ), which had an unstable childhood and has been married fourteen years, plans to leave New York and get married in Brazil a rich man. When she gets a letter, which says that her brother Fred was killed in the military, they destroyed her home.

She is suspected to have worked for the mob boss Sally Tomato ( which she attended for a fee every Thursday at New York's Sing Sing Prison ), and is therefore arrested for a short time. Your planned marriage in Brazil is canceled because her fiance occupied an important political office and no woman wants that draws such public interest. Holly still wants to South America to start a new life there.

Publication history

The first German translation is by Hansi Bochow - Blüthgen and first appeared in 1959 along with three stories Capote in the limit of publishing. For best sellers, however, only developed the paperback edition of Rowohlt publisher who brought it alone until 1994 on several editions with a total of 317,000 copies. Only in 2006 was published by Kein & Aber a new translation by Heidi Zerning.

  • Breakfast at Tiffany's. A short novel. Limes, Wiesbaden 1959; Reprint 1996, ISBN 3-8090-2412-0
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's. A short novel and three stories. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1962, ISBN 3-499-10459-8
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's. Novel. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-0369-5159-8 Special edition with fashion sketches by Hubert de Givenchy: Kein & Aber, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-0369-5528-5
  • Paperback: Goldmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-46904-8

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Others

  • The American rock band Deep Blue Something brought the single Breakfast at Tiffany's (1994 /95) to world prominence. The song is about a relationship between two people who have nothing in common except that they both like the film Breakfast at Tiffany's.
  • Literary work
  • Literature ( English )
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Novel, epic
  • Truman Capote
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