Re: How Many Sisters Had Sybil Carpenter


Subject: Re: How Many Sisters Had Sybil Carpenter
From: Louise Z. Brooks (invertedforest@angelfire.com)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 20:05:02 EST


I'm not denying that Salinger is not atoning for the sin of accidentally `auctioning the mind' of Seymour Glass before he had made his own mind up about him. It's just he's done it in a rather clever, interesting way which asks more questions than simply disowning the story or acknowledging that its contents were true or false would have done.

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Louise Z. Brooks
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:15:34 Matt Kozusko wrote: >Louise again: > >"It is indicated in Seymour:An Introduction that A Perfect Day For >Bananafish is not by JD Salinger as such, but is Buddy's take as an >author on Seymour's suicide. Therefore rather than being a `true' >story in which suspension of disbelief allows us to accept the idea of >an omnipotent narrator, it is Buddy's attempt to rationalise the >suicide in a purely fictional, speculative manner." > >But of course it *is* by J. D. Salinger. Buddy is a convenient device >for excusing a great shift in plans. Nothing, neither way, as far as >I can tell. > >-- >Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu >- >* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message >* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH >

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