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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958)

by Truman Capote

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Contains: Breakfast at Tiffany's House of Flowers A Diamond Guitar A Christmas Memory
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 Monthly Author Reads: June 2015: Truman Capote51 unread / 51BookConcierge, February 2019

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Frühstück bei Tiffany ♦ Truman Capote | Rezension

Wer kennt sie nicht, die bewegte-Bilder-Adaption, mit welcher Audrey Hepburn Filmgeschichte geschrieben hat. Doch kann die Buchvorlage mithalten? Und kann ich als Leserin das Buch mit Abstand zum Film bewerten? Es ist schwierig, denn Audrey Hepburn hat sich als Holly Golightly in unserer aller Gedächtnis gebrannt.

Im Rahmen des SommerlochBingos habe ich Frühstück bei Tiffany von [a:Truman Capote|431149|Truman Capote|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1419249359p2/431149.jpg]endlich von meinem SuB befreien können. Das Buch lag dort auch schon viel zu lange rum.



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Ich habe versucht das Buch ganz voreingenommen zu lesen, ohne mir immer wieder den Film in Erinnerung zu rufen. Was nicht sonderlich schwer war, da es doch schon einige Monde her ist, seitdem ich mir den Klassiker in schwarz/weiß angesehen habe. Doch ich kam einfach nicht umhin, dass ich bei Holly immer das Gesicht von Frau Hepburn vor meinem geistigen Auge hatte.

Ich möchte direkt anmerken, dass mich das Buch nicht so gut mitnehmen konnte, wie es der Film von Szene eins an getan hat. Auch wenn der Erzähler, welcher bis zum Ende hin namenlos bleibt, versucht hat Hollys Charaktereigenschaften und ihr Auftreten so gut es geht zu beschreiben, war es für die Ikone im Film einfach noch um einiges leichter diese eigensinnige Souveränität der Prota zu demonstrieren. Was mir im Film gefallen hat, ging im Buch fast ein wenig unter und wirkte hier auch eher nervig. Ich weiß nicht wie oft mir die folgenden Wörter „verwöhnte Göre“ durch den Kopf gingen.

Wirkt Holly in der ersten Betrachtung sehr selbstsicher und glamourös, merkte ich als Leserin schnell, wie viele Selbstzweifel und Traurigkeit die Protagonistin mit ihrer Maske zu verstecken versucht. Denn selbst das strahlendste Lächeln kann die traurige Leere in den Augen einer Person nicht wegzaubern. Ich wollte Holly oft an den Armen packen und schütteln, ihr sagen, dass sie endlich zu sich, ihren Fehlern und ihrer Vergangenheit stehen soll.

Mit teils belangloser Art schreibt [a:Capote|431149|Truman Capote|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1419249359p2/431149.jpg] durch die Augen des Erzählers dann aber doch wieder so tiefgründig, dass das Buch fesselt, selbst als die Sympathien zur Hauptfigur immer mehr nachgelassen hatten. Doch trotz meiner Antipathie muss ich zugeben, dass Holly hinreißend verrückt und tiefsinnig war, was mir aber wirklich erst auf den zweiten Blick wirklich aufgefallen ist.

Zitat

Aber im Ernst, Herzchen, du hast aus deiner Kindheit solch eine Tragödie gemacht, dass ich damit nicht wetteifern wollte.


Schreibstil: 4/5
Charaktere: 3/5
Plot: 2,5/5
Gesamt: 3,1/5

Fazit
⭐⭐⭐

Trotz einer langsamen und eher unspannend erzählten Handlung konnte mich das Buch auf seine ganz eigene Weise mitnehmen. Denn es lebt mehr von den Persönlichkeiten als von Ereignissen. Meine Antipathie gegenüber Holly konnte ich zwar bis zum Ende hin nicht beiseitelegen und dennoch hatte ich ein ganz gutes Lesevergnügen.

Frühstück bei Tiffany ♦ Truman Capote | Rezension auf The Art of Reading ( )
  RoXXieSiXX | May 20, 2024 |
5/5

Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a title that most associate with Audrey Hepburn. Its influence is so ingrained in pop culture that we can not seem to get the image of Hepburn walking down 5th Avenue and eating her pastry in front of Tiffany’s out of our minds. Capote’s novella feels similar, but also greatly differs from the film. Reading the novella provides a majestically elusive experience that I have been yearning for in other novels ever since my first read. I have reviewed Breakfast at Tiffany’s before, but I now feel that it deserves more attention than what I initially gave.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s is narrated by an unnamed character and follows his experience being acquainted with the socialite Holly Golightly. Holly Golightly earns her living as a chaperone to wealthy men and by asking them for fifty dollars to go to the powder room; in other words, Holly is a call girl. Holly’s character represents the fear of attachment, and she is always “traveling”; as stated on her mailbox tag. The novella has a strong plot, but where it most succeeds is as a psychological study of Holly’s character. It becomes clear that Holly fears attachment and copes with this by abandoning people, places, and objects to which she develops an attachment. The idea of a name becomes very important in the novella. Holly has an unnamed cat who she claims doesn’t belong to her; they just met by the river one day and she brought him home; her real name isn’t Holly, it is Lulamae. Holly is just a pseudonym she took when she moved to New York. Lastly, Capote brilliantly refuses to name the narrator the same way Holly refuses to name the cat. The only thing that Holly admits she is attached to is her brother Fred, who she says the narrator reminds her of, so much so that she asks to call him by her brother’s name.

The major turning point in the novella is when Holly’s brother Fred is killed in an accident. Holly becomes unhinged and destroys everything in her apartment. She has lost the one thing that she admitted belonged to her. This moment reinforces her habit of refusing to get attached to things and sparing herself from the pain.

The ending is the real tragedy of Holly’s story. On her way to catch her plane to Brazil, Holly pushes the cat out of the cab and abandons him. A few moments after this, she regrets her decision, stops the cab, and goes back to look for the cat but with no luck. It is at this point that she realizes and tells the narrator that they did belong to each other. You can only initially despise what Holly has done before feeling sorry for her. It is because we discover that we all go through moments where we believe it would be easier to not get attached than to get hurt by something. That is the trick because Holly’s character only hurts herself by not allowing or acknowledging the things she loves most in her life. Holly flies and moves to Brazil regardless. The narrator only hopes that one day she will be able to stop fighting the natural inclination to care. ( )
  tayswift1477 | May 15, 2024 |
Me gustaron mas los 3 cuentos que la novela ( )
  Presagios | Nov 27, 2023 |
Similar voice to Hemingway and Steinbeck, minimal, naturalistic flourishes. A bit gonzo, a bit more adventurous high society than the previous. Holly Golightly is certainly a type. ( )
  A.Godhelm | Oct 20, 2023 |
No review - read too long ago to recall. ( )
  mykl-s | Aug 12, 2023 |
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Amberg, BillCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Blixen, KarenForewordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Folch i Camarasa, RamonTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Golüke, GuidoTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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The story follows a young writer and his memory of an eccentric, charming call girl named Holly Golightly in Manhattan's Upper East Side.
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