Seymour an Introduction

 After years of reading and re-reading Salinger I'm going to reverse myself on SaI which I have always derided.

I think Seymour an Introduction has been misunderstood by many readers because they approach it as a short story. Buddy Glass, Seymour's brother and narrator of this Introduction has this to say: "I'm anything but a short-story writer where my brother is concerned. What I am, I think, is a thesaurus of undetached prefatory remarks about him." Salinger is writing outside literary convention and I don't feel literary criticism as we know it is appropriate here, of course fire away if you must. I don't know it kind of strikes me as a personal note to his readers from J D Salinger.

Paul

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