Subject: Re: French's short story cycle
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Thu Feb 03 2000 - 16:52:58 EST
That particular book of French's annoyed the Heck out of me too. A lot was VERY forced, in my opinion. But it was still a pretty valuable resource for getting your foot in the door on some basic issues in Salinger scholarship.
Jim
> in Warren French's "J D Salinger Revisited" French posits that the "Nine
> Stories" are arranged in "a progression based upon the slow and painful
> achievement of spiritual enlightenment, something like what the christian
> believer experiences upon passing through the ritual of the stations of the
> cross, or, more appropriately in dealing with Salinger, of successive stages
> that a soul would pass through according to Vedantic teachings in at last
> escaping fleshy incarnations."
> This seems a very forced view of "Nine Stories" and I just can't see it.
> After all the stories are simply arranged chronologicaly as to when they
> were published.
>
>
> Paul M
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