Re: new yorker
William Hochman (wh14@is9.nyu.edu)
Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:31:30 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Camille Scaysbrook wrote:
C, today on my exercise bicycle (the context I've chosen to read
_Salinger_ by Paul Alexander in because I'm trying to just read without
saying no or anything else) I read "As things turned out, because it was
long on meaning and short on plot, "The Inverted Forest" was perhpas the
first example of what would happen to Salinger' s fiction in the future
when he came to rely more on isidght than he did on action."
Now this is not only an example of contemporary reception, but I have to
digress and howl a bit here (and do five penalty miles on the exercise
bike later...much later!) to say it's odd that Alexander makes some pretty
thin assumptions about stories and Salinger's actual bio, but fails to
connect this story to Salinger's withdrawal from public life. IMHO, "The
Inverted Forest" shows a wrong turn, a place Salinger could have ended up.
Some might even say he is living a bit like Ray Ford without his
glasses...will
> Or any of the Salinger editions for that matter? I've always been curious
> as to how contemporary audiences received things like `The Inverted
> Forest'.
>
> Camille
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