Subject: Re: 2 Q's
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 08:32:43 EST
In a message dated 2/20/00 11:55:44 PM Eastern Standard Time,
invertedforest@angelfire.com writes:
<< Well then. If Salinger is disappearing from your view, he's obviously
achieving exactly what he intended, in a very clever and elegant way - as I
said, it's a lot cleaner than adding `disregard' on the first page of any new
edition of Nine Stories or actually issuing an obituary. `Salinger As Living
Dead Man', there's a title for an essay if I ever heard one. Those
post-modernists among you might even say that Salinger is fulfilling the idea
of the absent author. Gee whiz.
---
Louise Z. Brooks >>
Yep, but at the same time isn't the story is disappearing from view as well?
I never doubted it was a clever trick on Salinger's part, but that's just it
-- it's a trick. He's not erasing the author, though, just fictionalizing
him. I think Joyce's literature comes closer to erasing the author than
anything.
I mean, we can ask these questions, or we can ask the questions the story
itself asks, but we can't ask both at once. I'm drawn to the stories because
of what they ask.
Jim
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