Subject: The news Italy brings us
From: Rob Riss (sdrelist@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 21:09:43 GMT
what's up fish,
I tried to send this through once today and it didn't work, so i'm sorry if
this is a duplicate!
An interesting email came through the salinger.org feedback link yesterday,
and although my first thought was that I wanted it to be true, I now find
myself hoping that it is just a rumor.
An Italian reporter wanted to know more about the "online web chat with JD
Salinger on MSNBC, May 2nd." Curious, I emailed MSNBC and asked them what
they knew about it. The answer was, "we chatted with his daughter awhile
ago, but not him", which i guess doesn't really answer it...The reporter
then sent me the link to the web site which had originally reported it,
claiming that Il Nuovo is "an important online newspaper". I found an
online web bot to translate the page, and although it came out very choppy,
the point was made.
Here's the page without the translation:
http://www.ilnuovo.it/nuovo/foglia/0,1007,39477,00.html
and below is the English translation:
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Salinger returns thanks to Internet
The author of the Holden Young person returns in public thanks to Internet
suggestionato from the example of Mine.
MILAN - the news is of that they go around of the world. J.d. Salinger, the
leggendario novelist author of autoesiliato the Holden Young person and in
misantropo an isolation from some decades, will return to an encounter with
its public thanks to Internet the next month. Agent Harold Ober in a press
conference has announced its to which Salinger she has not participated. "
After many years, and being useful for the opportunities offered from the
new technologies, Salinger has decided to resume the dialogue with its
public ", has said Ober.
The writer will appear in video from the study of its house of Cornish, New
Hampshire, 2 next May, for an hour. Ober has explained that after a short
introduction, Salinger will be available to the talk with the navigators via
webcam. The encounter will be accommodated from the situated one of news
American MSNBC, whose responsibles they are limits to declare to you of
being proud of the initiative, but that all the communication and the
management of the event is entrusted to the staff of Salinger.
Salinger autorecluse in years Sixty, embezzling itself to the succeeded
prodigioso of its only novel, the Holden Young person, of which it reruns to
days the fiftieth anniversary of the publication. According to some
indiscretions, than Ober it has not confirmed, the event preluderebbe to the
publication of a new book. To the question of some journalists if the choice
of Salinger has to that to make with the recent reappearance on Internet of
Mine, Ober has answered simply that " Mr. Salinger has great esteem for mrs.
Mazzini, of which appreciates in particular the old successes ". The
situated one, to the address www.allthatcrap.com, will be operating from the
previous week with information and explanations of the event.
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After reading this, many questions popped into my head, trying to determine
the validity of the article. The article states Salinger can "resume the
dialogue with its public", which made me wonder when he has ever had
dialogue with his fans to begin with. But the internet would be good for
Jerry; it's pretty anonymous, he won't have to talk face to face with
someone or deal with someone's stupid emotions, and if he changed his mind,
he could simply log off. For these reasons, I can see this being appealing
to him. But then there's the reviews in the newspapers, another flood of
people showing up on his lawn, etc; hasn't he had enough bad experiences
with publicity to know to stay away from it? The publication date of
Hapworth (nov 2002) is only a year and a half away; this could be the
"preluderebbe to the publication of a new book" that they talk about. And
if Il Nuovo is an important newspaper, they wouldn't print an outlandish
rumor. So in some ways it makes sense.
So let's pretend the article is true. I find myself wanting to protect
Salinger. Catcher in the rye was 50 years ago; people will flood him with
questions about Holden. As he told the one young reporter that met him at
the bridge in Cornish that asked about Holden (i forget her name) "I've let
holden go". Is there anything we could say or ask that wouldn't thoroughly
annoy or disinterest Salinger? Which brings me back to believe the chat
could be a fluke.
so what do you guys think about it? are there any Italian-speakers who can
clean up that translation?
UGH, i'm gonna email MSNBC again with the link to the page and hope to get a
proper answer. I hope this link hasn't come up before, or i'm a fish in hot
water.
I'll email the list when i get more news from MSNBC.
-Rob Riss
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