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Ficción y Realidad en la ob,a de Truman Capote
“Most of his new friends, like so many of his oíd
ones, were women: his rapport with the opposite sex had
now flowered into perfect communion. Discovering a
marvelously apt entry from the joumal of a nineteenth-
century romantic, he quoted it in a Harper’s Bazaar article
to express his own rhapsodic admiration of women,
beautiful women: “Sat on the stone wall and observed a
gathering of swans, an aloof armada, coast around the
curves of the canal and merge with the twilight, their
feathers floating away over the water like the trailing hems
of snowy ball-gowns. 1 was reminded of beautiful women; 1
thought of Mlle. de V., and experienced a cold exquisite
spas¡n, a chilí, as though 1 had heard a poem spoken, fine
musie rendered. A beautifbl woman, beautiflflly elegant,
impresses us as art does, changes the wcather of our spirit;
asid that, is thai a frivolous malta? 1 think not.”
Parece seguro que Truman Capote tenía una habilidad especial para
encantar y para hacer que la gente se sintiese segura con él, especialmente
las mujeres. En cierto sentido, la respuesta al porqué de ese encanto se
encuentra en las diferentes opiniones recogidas por el biógrafo de Truman
Capote entre las amistades del escritor. De esta forma concluye Gerald
Clarke
“His ability to mold and influence them was a kind of
sexual power, however, and probably not the least potent
kind ofthat. A woman might go to bed with other men, but
she listened to Truman. “He would telí me things, what to
wear, for instance,” said Carol Marcus. “He was very smart
about titose things, and 1 don’t mean in that supercilious,
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