Subject: Re: a little trivia
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 13 1997 - 16:18:08 GMT
Gary Lane in "Seymour's Suicide Again: A New Reading of J.D.Salinger's 'A
Perfect Day for Bananafish'" in Studies in Short Fiction 10 (1973): 27-33
makes use of Rilke to interpret the story...will
On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Matt Kozusko wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Feb 1997 Hotspur8@aol.com wrote:
>
> > in a "Perfect Day" there's a reference to a german poet.. any guesses? i have
> > a feeling i might even have run across the very book that is never mentioned.
> > hmmm. research time.
>
> It is unequivocally Rilke. Ray Sorenson (?) mentions to Lane at the
> outset of "Franny" something about one of the Duino Elegies, and Salinger
> has elsewhere expressed a reverence for Rilke (letters and the early
> stories). It's quite interesting,
> too, to look at "Bananafish" in conjunction with "Song of the Suicide"
> from Rilke's _Book of Hours_.
>
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