ABRIR 3.2. La adolescencia - Biblioteca de la Universidad ...

Ficción y Realidad en la obra de Tru~nan Capote
cloudless blue of prairie skies. But even without the singular
feature, her face was interesting - firm-jawed, handsome, a
bit androgynous. Pepper-salt hair parted in the middle. Sixty
five, there about. A lesbian? Well, yes.” (Capote 1980:253-
254)
Su encuentro con la escritora da pie a la aparición de más datos
autobiográficos que ya hemos ido estudiando, tales como la edad, la fecha
de nacimiento, el fumar, el beber, las influencias literarias y... la edad de
Willa Cather puesto que Miss Cather nació en 1873 (murió en 1947)
“She ordered hot chocolate; 1 asked for a “ver>”’ dr>’
martini. Halfseriously, she said, “Are you oíd enough?”
too.”
“I’ve been drinking since 1 was fourteen. Smoking
“You don’t look more than fourteen now.”
“I’ll be nineteen next September.” ‘[hen 1 told her a
few things: that 1 was from New Orleans, that I’d published
several short stories, that 1 wanted to be a writer and was
working on a novel. And she wanted to know what
American writers 1 liked. “Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily
Dickinson...” “No, living.” “Ah, well, hmm, leUs see: how
difflcult, the rivalr>’ factor being what it is, for one
contemporary author, or would-be author. At last 1 said,
“Not Hemingway- a realí>’ dishonest man, the closet-
everything. Not Thomas Wolfe- ah that purple upchuck; of
course, he isn’t living. Faulkner, sometimes: L/ghl ¡11
Augita. Fitzgerald, sometimes: D/arnond as B¡g as the Ritz,
Tender /s (he Mg/u. 1 realí>’ hike Willa Cather. Have you
read My Mortal Enerny?”
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