Re: CITR and the Koran

As far as I know, Islam is not mentioned by Salinger in his fiction,
but I'd love to be proven wrong because I think Salinger synthesized
religious ideas in his stories without advocating organized religion.
Warren French, in his introduction to Elizabeth Kurian's A Religious
Response to the Existential Dilemma in the Fiction of J.D. Salinger
wrote "As Dr. Kurian insists Salinger is never a propagandist for any
one doctrine, but a synthesizer who after meditating on diverse
traditions attempts, as she states 'to integrate Christianity,
Hinduism and Zen Buddhism in his fiction.'" I would add that Salinger
also addressed anti-semetism, and either Eberhard Alsen or Kurian (I
think that's where I got this idea from...) noted that a Jewish sense
of family may represent Jewish thinking as part of Salinger's mixing
of religious thinking into his fiction.

If Salinger is indeed synthesizing Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism
and Judiasm, why isn't Islam in the mix?

will

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Received on Wed Aug 21 10:20:26 2002