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Ficción y Realidad en la obra de Truman Capote
With no particular expression, she said, “Actually, 1
wrote it.” (Capote 1980:254-255)
Efectivamente, el autor si nació en Nueva Orleans, sí iba a cumplir
diecinueve años, sí le encantaba Willa Cather, sí le gustaban Scott
Fitzgerald y Faulkner a veces, si- aunque ahora lo recuerde de forma
diferente- le gustaba Hemingway y de joven admiré a ‘[homas Wolfe. Por
tanto, podemos apreciar el repaso a su vida en ciertos aspectos. Esta cita,
en cierto sentido, parece extraida de, por ejemplo, “A Larnp /n the
W/ndow “, siendo la única diferencia que en aquel relato la cita abarcaba
escritores ingleses también.
Este encuentro con Willa Cather realmente se produjo. En el libro
de George Plimpton, éste recoge el relato de Dotson Rader sobre dicho
encuentro
“1 think the author he admired most was Willa
Cather. He was ver>’ proud of the fact that he had met her.
He told me once about when he was working as a mail bo>’
at TJze New Yorker. Truman didn’t have much money and he
used to spend a lot of time at the Society Librar>’ on
Seventy-ninth Street. She lived right around the comer. One
da>’ he saw her and he got up enough courage to follow her
to a bus stop on Seventy-ninth Street and said, “Aren’t you
Miss Cather?” He told her how much he admired her and
knew alí her books and about when he was a boy and used
to read them and how lonely they would make him feel,
how he could feel her loneliness. She invited him up to tea
and they went up to her fiat..., that was one of the great
moments of his life.” (Plimpton:236)
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