Subject: Re: critique of zooey?
Wompprat@aol.com
Date: Tue Aug 08 2000 - 17:39:25 GMT
You wanted opinions? Mine are by no means authoritative, but hey...
Although I won't say F&Z is my bible, I found it an incredible book...it is
still my favorite of Salinger's work. "Franny" alone is nowhere what "Zooey"
can do with it. And the best thing about these stories is what is beyond the
admittedly endearing 3-page long descriptions of the contents of medicine
cabinets: what they mean, not so much what they say.
Although I haven't known about Salinger for very long, I suspect I would,
over time, not go bother with critical analysis either. Despite the fact that
I have to turn out ridiculous quantities of it every year, after all, there
is more to a book then the characters, themes, motifs, and all the other
components that make it up. F&Z, at least the way that I percieved it, was a
book that tried extremely hard to blast through the phoniness of the
comfortable little niche of expository dissection. It was instead a call to
action, not a statement of ones and oftens and MLA Format and let's please
everybody adverbs. It is not one or they or he or she, it is you. It is I. It
is us all on this silly little sphere tumbling throughout infinity, who are
called to dismiss "knowledge for knowledge's sake", "...to leave something
beautiful" and look beyond our treasure to see what kingdom we "are carrying
around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and
unimaginative to look".
I guess I'll side with Plato, "And why, Crito, should we care about the
opinion of the many?"
Kathrine
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