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

Ficción yRealidad en la obra de Truenan Capote
literatura americana de la que hablamos: Christopher Isherwood y Gore
Vidal. En efecto el personaje de Fouts aparece en la obra de Isherwood
I)own ihere on a Visil (1962) y en la obra de Gore Vidal Pagesfrom an
Abandonediournal. La historia de Fouts es la de un viajero incansable, un
hombre bello, un “gigolo” que era amado por los hombres y por las
mujeres era considerado algo así como un experimento que había que
examinar. Esa es la realidad y así aparece en el libro de Capote. Además,
en esta parte del texto, Truman dice que aquella mañana fue a la Biblioteca
Pública para ojear el libro de Isherwood y escribir la cita tal y como
aparece en su libro. Denny Fouts es Paul, según Capote, y según el propio
autor lo que viene a continuación es lo que aparece en el libro de
Isherwood
“Denny spent tite war years in California several of
them as a prisioner in a camp for conscientious objectors;
but it was early on in the California days that he met
Christopher lsherwood, who was working in Hollywood as
a film scenarist. Here, quoting from the previously
mentioned Isherwood novel, which 1 looked up at tite public
library this morning, is how he describes Denny (or Paul, as
he calís him): “Witen 1 flrst set eyes on Paul, as he entered
tite restaurant, 1 remember 1 noticed strangely erect walk; he
seemed almost paralytic witit tension. He was always slim,
but titen he looked boyishly skinny, and he was dressed like
a boy in bis teens, with an exaggerated air of innocence
which he seemed to be darting us to challenge. His drab
black suit, narrow-chested and wititout shoulder padding,
clean white shirt and plain black tie, made him look as if he
had just arrived in town from a strictly religious boarding
school. His dressing so young didn’t strike me as ridiculous,
because it went with his appearance. Yet, since 1 knew he
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