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Ficción i’Realidad en la obra de Truman Capote
the house is a grimy jungle of Victoriana; lily-pale, plump
faced ladies garbed in rotting Grecian veils prance tribally
on wallpaper; in the hall an empty tarnished for calling-
cards, and a hat-tree, gnarled like a spruee glimpsed on the
coast of Brittany, are elegant mementos from Brooklyn’s
less blighted days; the parlor bulges with dusted fringe
fiarniture, a family histor>’ in daguerreotype parades across
and oíd untuned piano, everywhere anti-macassars are like
little crochetted flags declaring a state of Respectability, and
when a draught goes througit this room beaded lamps tinkle
Oriental tunes.” (Capote 1950:24)
En definitiva, Brooklyn es un lugar solitario donde se van creando
vecindarios de diferentes nacionalidades y donde Capote vive con dos
personas: Mrs. Q y su hija Mrs. Q. Capote las presenta y le cuenta al lector
su historia, como en todos los casos, un tanto peculiar. En uno de los
momentos de esta historia Mrs Q se queja a Truman Capote de este
ambiente multiracial que poco a poco se va adueñando del barrio
“We saw them from tite window, two whole families
riding by in moving vans.”
Witen site has squeezed dr>’ tite lemon of her
sourness, ¡ ask: Families ofwhat, Mrs Q.?
“Africans,” site announces with a righteous owl-like
blink, “tite whole neighboritood’s turning into a black
nigittmare; first jews, now this; robbers and titieves, alí of
them-makes my blood run cold.”
de casa. (Brinnin:29)
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