Holly Golightly, the protagonist of Breakfast at Tiffany's, is perhaps the most seductive character created by this master of seduction, Truman Capote. Attractive without being pretty, after rejecting an acting career in Hollywood, Holly becomes a star in the most sophisticated New York; drinking cocktails and breaking hearts, she seems to make a living by begging money for her boudoir expeditions in fashionable restaurants and clubs, and lives surrounded by crazy guys, from a gangster who is serving time in Sing Sing and whom she visits weekly, to a millionaire capricious of Nazi affinities, passing through an old bartender secretly in love with her. A mixture of mischief and innocence, cunning and authenticity, Holly lives in permanent provisionality, without a past, not wanting to belong to anything or anyone, feeling banished everywhere despite the glamor that surrounds her, and always dreaming of that paradise that for her It's Tiffany's, the famous New York jewelry store. Breakfast at Tiffany's is an extraordinary short novel that, on its own, would be enough to establish an author.

"Impeccably constructed, with dialogue full of wit, rhythm and naturalness, and with several exceptional secondary characters, Breakfast at Tiffany's is further proof, despite its brevity, of Truman Capote's enormous talent for combining lyricism, worldly tone and a very noble sentimentality" (Eduardo Mendicutti).