Subject: French's short story cycle
From: Paul Miller (phm@midsouth.rr.com)
Date: Thu Feb 03 2000 - 14:31:35 EST
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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