Truman Capote “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”

I am a big fan of Audrey Hepburn, and films with her participation I watch mostly to admire her unearthly appearance. She is not like the others; I often forget about the movie and catch myself thinking: “what does this fragile creature do in the film and why do the actors playing "normal" people react to her as if they see a lamppost not a woman of angelic beauty, as if women with the appearance of Audrey Hepburn, dressed in her exclusive clothes, roam around in large quantities in their neighborhood?"

Many watched the film "Breakfast at Tiffany’s" with pleasure. But have you read the book?

The book and the movie are two different stories! I associate the words «Breakfast at Tiffany’s» more with the book, and when I hear those words my heart immediately responds with a sharp sense that it is a story about me. This is a poignant, catching your heart story about how to find a place in life where you will be good. This is a book about how to find "your Tiffany".
 

Holly Golightly, the heroine of the novel, is the wonderful and crazy soul of each of us, looking for happiness.

Stefan Zweig "Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman"

Zweig, of course, is a master of describing emotions. There is no doubt about that, but he adores anguish and insane passion. Remember “Letter from an unknown woman” and many other novellas. He probably liked to shock his audience. Had he lived today, he would be a producer of Hollywood films. Everything is taken to such extreme; it is similar to adding sugar to your glass of Cola. 

What struck me most is how much society has changed over the last hundred years. The main character is a forty-two year old woman. She had an adventure that lasted twenty-four hours. She did not speak of her secret adventure for more than twenty years! She lost her self esteem and considered herself unworthy of her children for a long time. If you look at her mystery through the eyes of a modern woman, you will not find anything criminal in it. Well, I have to add that she was an English aristocrat; Zweig did his best, and yet…