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Ficción y Realidad en la abra de Truman Capote
Al Dewey, personaje con el cual la autobiografia de Capote se extiende en
el libro. La primera información que da Capote sobre él es que es el
encargado del caso y que tiene cuarenta y siete años, también informa
sobre que
“Por Dewey, himself a former Sheriff of Finney
County (from 1947 to 1955) and prior to that, a Special
Agent ofthe FBI (between 1940 and 1945), he had served
in New Orleans, in San Antonio, in Denver, in Miami and in
San Francisco, was professionally qualified to cope with this
intricate an affair as the apparently motiveless, alí but
clueless Clutter murders.” (Capote 1966:64)
Por lo tanto la persona idónea a la que contactar, ya que aparte de
su capacidad (se puede comprobar que todos estos datos de Dewey son
ciertos), era una de las personas que mejor conocía a la familia y una de las
personas que tanto profesional como personalmente tenía razones para
querer esclarecer el caso cuanto antes. En el libro de Plimpton
encontramos la referencia de Dewey cuando conoció a Capote
“1 fi-st met Truman at the courthouse here in Garden
City. It was within a week or ten days afier the crime, which
had been committed on November 15, 1959. Truman and
Harper Lee showed up at the courthouse. They introduced
themselves and 1 had a little visit with them. The first time 1
saw him he was wearing a small cap, a large sheepskin coat,
and a ver>’ long, fairly narrow scarfthat trailed plumb to the
tibor, and then some kind of moccasins... I’d never heard of
Truman or Harper Lee before. 1 asked to seo his credentials.
He didn’t have any, which threw Truman for a íoop.”
(Plimpton: 169)
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