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Ficción y Realidad en la obra de Truman Capote
Innocents.” Mr. Capote turned his second novel, “‘[he Grass Harp,” into an
unsuccessflil Broadway pía>’ and, with Harold Arlen, wrote the 1954
musical, also unsuccessfljl, “House ofFlowers.” Mr. Capote also adapted a
number of his stories, including “A Christmas Memor>”’ and “‘[he
Thanksgiving Visítor,” for televísion.
Crities noted his deft handling of children as characters in his work,
his ability to move from the real to the surreal, and his use of lush words
and images. In 1963, the critie Mark Sehorer wrote of Mr. Capote:
“Perhaps the single constant in his prose is style, and the emphasis he
himself places upon the importance ofstyle.” (Krebb 1984)
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