Along with the world famous Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote had given life to many other novels and short novels. A Tree of Night and other stories is Capote’s most famous collection of short stories published in 1949. The collection is comprised of eight short stories.
Truman Capote is one of the most revered American writers ever born. Since the age of 12, Capote wrote daily: he later called it his “obsession”, but, by and large, it was the only worthwhile occupation he would accomplish well, and he understood it.
Capote fully inhabited his prose, and the rest of life was just an inept and pathetic attempt to settle among people. He knew success, fame, even worship - and sometimes behaved defiantly, precisely because he wanted to bring down the intensity of this worship. He was uncomfortable when he was praised, since he was accustomed to being an outcast from childhood. Only writing protected him from the temptations of excessive socialization.
Capote's work consists of these two main sensations: the icy perfect harmony of this world, its fantastic beauty, and the horror of a lonely child thrown into this world. That is why his prose is so brilliant, such an icy sheen is inherent in it, and at the same time it is so sentimental, so sensitive. It is the combination of strength and insane vulnerability and fragility that is in Capote’s prose. Capote wrote with amazing and really tangible muscular strength, with a wonderful juggling brilliance.
