FW: that Welles man again
Joni Tyler (joni.tyler@inst.riba.org)
Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:17:14 +0100
> Pete Llewellyn asks why we are discussing Welles in a Salinger
> discussion group. I agree that the subject of Hearst (not Welles) is
> exhausted - my contribution on Marian Davies was there to correct an
> error. I would hope, however, that there is room for parallel
> discussion, whether on Balzac or Welles. Those Glass freres would see
> the point of this, I think. In fact, I had thought about getting a
> discussion going regarding young Antoine Doinel, Truffaut's
> autobiographical boy hero of The 400 Blows (with his shrine to Balzac,
> and what seems to me to be his somewhat Holden-like reasonable
> maladjustment.) Is this good-natured and reasonable maladjustment a
> 20th century phenomenon (Huck notwithstanding)? Did it only arrive
> with the concept of "teenage"? Are Holden and Antoine voicing what all
> adolescents (and many adults) think and feel (though most have
> themselves firmly under control) Are they archetypes, or are they
> individuals who are severely out-of-step?
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