by Truman Capote · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433915306
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«Els primers contes» is the collection of short stories by Truman Capote, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (184 pages, in Catalan).
The book brings together Capote's early stories: two women plotting to kill their husbands, an escaped prisoner, children lost in a swamp, a lonely old woman, and a Black woman from the South who moves to New York as a cook. Early texts, from the school magazine to literary New York, with the author's corrections and echoes of Southern Gothic and cosmopolitanism.
Volume 22 of the Llibres Anagrama collection, published in 2016. Translation by Xavier Pàmies; original title: The Early Stories of Truman Capote.
For readers of short stories and fans of Truman Capote interested in his early works.
Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. His work and his life story have been adapted into and have been the subject of more than 20 films and television productions.
