The Complete Stories of Truman Capote (Vintage International)

Shut a Final Door is a psychological short story about a young man whose self-absorption and careless talk leave him exposed to an invisible pressure. Beneath the easy urban banter, guilt and loneliness slowly take shape, and the story grows increasingly unsettling toward the end.

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Behind the easy banter, an inescapable unease quietly rises.

Truman Capote's A Tree of Night is a short story collection that includes the O. Henry Award-winning Shut a Final Door. Alongside Miriam and The Headless Hawk, it traces loneliness, the unstable border between dream and reality, and the unease of urban life in a prose style that is both elegant and incisive.

Review Summaries

Readers value the tense narration, the lingering unease, and the psychological portrait of self-deception. Some, however, feel distanced by the cold, abrasive protagonist and the story's heavy shadow.
The review highlights the sharpness of the prose and the density of the description, treating each story as keenly shaped and marked by a strange, lingering beauty.

Book Information

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2005-09-13
Pages: 320 pages
Language: 英語
Size: 13.21 x 1.91 x 20.32 cm
ISBN-13: 9781400096916
ISBN-10: 140009691X
Price: 2969 JPY
Category: 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Short Stories/Single Author

A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story. “To best experience Capote the stylist, one must go back to his short fiction. . . . One experiences as strongly as ever his gift for concrete abstraction and his spectacular observancy.” —The New Yorker Ranging 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 here, in stories as elegant as they are heartfelt, as haunting as they are compassionate. Reading them reminds us of the miraculous gifts of a beloved American original.

Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to international prominence in 1948 with the publication of his debut novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms. Among his celebrated works are Breakfast at Tiffany’s, A Tree of Night, The Grass Harp, Summer Crossing, A Christmas Memory, and In Cold Blood, widely considered one of the greatest books of the twentieth century. Twice awarded the O. Henry Short Story Prize, Capote was also the recipient of a National Institute of Arts and Letters Creative Writing Award and an Edgar Award. He died August 25, 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday. Reynolds Price is the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University and the distinguished author of more than twenty-five books of fiction, poetry, drama, and essays. He lives in North Carolina.

Reviews

興味深い読み物です。

１０代に書かれた短編も入っていて、カポーティの観察眼に驚かされます。心温まるものから不気味な心象風景まで多岐にわたる短編でした。
完璧な文章

まさしくアメリカ文学の秀峰。トルーマン・カポーティの真価はこの短編集の中に収められている短編にある。「Master Misery](邦夢を売る女)「The Headless Hawk](無頭の鷹)「Children on The Birthdays](誕生日の子供たち)「The Thankksgiving Visiter](感謝祭のお客)「On Christmas](クリスマスの思い出)が特に素晴らしゕった。英語学習にも最適の一冊。都会的で、現代的。おしゃれでシュールで詩的。大人が読む童話という感じ。長年読みたかった、本棚を見てこんな本が読みたいと思っていた、理想の一冊に出遭いました。
短編小説のすすめ

このごろ長編小説を読むのが苦しくなってきた。移動中に本を読むが、原則として酒販をしたり付き合いがあるとなかなか本は読めない。それに、遅い時間になると集中できないこともあって、長編小説のように内容を把握していないと翌日読んでもよくわからなくなってしまうと本を読む楽しさがなくなる。そこで、あれこれためしてみたが、丸谷才一さんの随筆は面白いがなんども繰り返し読むと筋がわかっていることもあり、つらくなったし、吉田健一の「怪奇な話」は大好きだけれども、ちょっとラベルのマ・メール・ロワに似た美しい小説は就寝前の楽しみだから、持ち歩かなかった。サキやポーそれにディケンズのお化け物の話も探したが、「信号旗手」だけは岩波文庫の短編集にもあるのに、お化けの話だけ集めたものは邦訳されていず、ちょっと分厚いペーパ-バックを持ち歩いていたらなくしてしまった。そこで行き着いたのがこのトルーマン・カポーティの短編集だ。トルーマン・カポーティには「かなえられた祈り」というカポーティが現代版の「失われた時を求めて」だと語っていた作品があり、とりわけ、この作品の冒頭のものはよく、わたしも愛読したのだけれども、こんど、カポーティの短編を送ってもらたひとがいっていたように、「子供たちの誕生日」などは傑作だと思うし、「最後の扉を閉めろ」がわたしには面白かった。口のうまい、容姿の良い男が女を籠絡し、さらには社長の姪となんとかなろうとして挫折していく話だが、カポーティの心理描写はとてもうまい。この本は英文だがカポーティの英文はけして難しくないので、英文科の学生や中高生が読んでも面白いと思う。
An excellent collection of short stories. Moving, evocative and thought-provoking.
I can see quite easily why Truman Capote referred to his collected short stories as his "Great Love". He was a rare master of words, possessed of a talent for prose that I've seen myself only in F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the scant body of work that he left behind before his passing (the same month and year that I was born; we were alive on the earth together for only days) is enough to keep me full until my last breath. Each of his tales sparkle with flawlessness and the emotion inherent in them teased tears from my eyes (especially the last lines from 'A Christmas Memory' and 'One Christmas'). Truman Capote was a master, a writer's writer, and I'm exceedingly thankful for the literary fruit that he left behind for us to feast upon.
did not actually contain breakfast at tiffany’s - which was what i was looking for
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El papel de la impresion no es de lo mejor , el tipo aunque pequeño legible. Buena edicion enviado pronto y bien cuidado el empaque.