Re: Seymour an Introduction

Jim wrote:
This isn't
really "outside literary convention" when you consider that "literary
convention" includes works like Finnegans Wake, Ulysses, Woolf's _The
Waves_, a lot of Stein...........................

Those works are inside literary convention now, how about when first
written. Salinger seems to be writing so that the reader is aware of the
writing process. On page 212 for example when describing Seymours hands he
writes "The palms were broad, the muscle between thumb and index finger
unexpectedly developed looking, "strong" ( the quotes are unnecessary-- for
God's sake, relax)". The two quotes , Kafka and Kierkegaard, at the opening
of this whatever genre you want to assign to it, are key to at least
patially understanding what Salinger was "trying" to do. The quotes are
really about characters, creations, taking on a life of their own and even
in a sense holding the author accountable.

Paul

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Received on Fri Aug 9 09:53:24 2002