Re: Salinger's silence


Subject: Re: Salinger's silence
From: Arthur G. (banderse@s-cwis.unomaha.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 18 1997 - 15:11:01 GMT


In reply to:

Do we evaluate all art
based on the personal life of the artist? If that be the case the poetry of
Ezra Pound would be thrown because of the link to facism. The work of
Sylvia Plath would be tossed because she committed suicide with her kids
upstairs.

No, we don't evaluate ALL art work based on the personal life of the
artist. A paradox to your statement can be observed in the fact that we do
evaluate some artwork based on the personal life of the artist. For instance,
Edgar Allen Poe's neurotic mind can be observed in his Tell Tale Heart, and
Vincent Van Gogh's screams for help can be witnessed in Irises.
Likewise, it is just as much a possibility that Salinger's own
bitterness towards society can be observed in CITR, or something else in
his other works.

Arthur G.
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