Re: Why Salinger Intrigues Me
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 21:46:12 +1000
>From `Flaubert's Parrot' by Julian Barnes:
`Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well
enough alone? Why aren't the books enough? Flaubert wanted them to be: few
writers believed more in the objectivity of the written text and the
insignificance of the writer's personality; yet still we disobediently
pursue. The image, the face ... the lock of hair. What makes us so randy
for relics? Do we think the leavings of a life contain some ancillary
truth?'
Camille
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