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Ficción y Realidad en la obra de TrumanCapole
Aquí es donde encontramos más datos autobiográficos.
Obviamente la aparición del loro es un tema imposible de probar. Lo de la
droga y la bebida es más fácil y más evidente. Por otro lado, Capote
comienza a incluir datos propios desde el mismo momento en que dice que
Park Avenue no es su avenida más querida. Es lógico y es el propio autor
el que lo cuenta desde su libro
“Still, there are certain buildings that prompt
memories. We passed a building were Willa Cather, the
American woman writer Uve most admired, lived the last
years of her life with her companion, Edith Lewis; 1 oflen
sat in front of their firpíace and drank Bristol Cream and
observed the firelight enflame the pale praire-blue of Miss
Cather serene genius-eyes. At eighty-fourth street 1
recognized an apartment house where 1 had once attended a
small black-tie dinner given by Senator and Mrs. John F.
Kennedy, then so young and innocent. But despite the
agreeable efforts of our hosts, the evening was not as
enlightning as 1 had anticipated because after the ladies had
been dismissed and the men left in the dining-room to savor
their cordials and Havana cigars, one of the guests, a rather
slope-chinned dressmaker named Oleg Cassini,
overwhelmed the conversation with a travelogue account of
Las Vegas and the myriad girí he’d recently auditioned
there: their measurements, erotic accomplishments, financial
requirements- a recital that hypnotised its auditors- none of
whom was more chukingly attentive than the future
President.” (Capote 1980:159)
El área de Nueva York al que se refiere el autor estaba habitada por
gente notable de la cultura, del espectáculo y de la política; hecho que
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