Fracaso sentimental en la calle 50

Pedro Liniers, Professor of Contemporary Literature at the Complutense University of Madrid, travels to New York to participate in a series of conferences invited by Columbia University. The subject is the work of Truman Capote, on which Liniers has just published a book, Psychoanalysis in the work of Truman Capote. Narrated in the first person, the memories of his childhood in Madrid in the 50s, his years at the University in the 60s, his stay in Barcelona working as a reader for the Miralpeix publishing house, his decision to change his profession to dedicate himself to teaching. and returning to Madrid in the 1980s, interrupt and postpone the narrative of their trip to New York. And in all those times, Liniers reflects on his relationships with the women who have crossed paths in his life, the real ones and the invented ones. His second wife, Elisa Barcáiztegui, his translator in New York, Elvira Lagarde, and the actress Sigourney Weaver, who is staying at the same hotel, are currently the object of the maniacal sentimental disturbances of this narrator who from time to time when he loses his word