Re: buddy as author
Emily Moore (evmoore@hotmail.com)
Wed, 18 Feb 1998 14:24:44 -0800 (PST)
jim wrote:
>Now, I have a question. Just what the heck **is** F and Z? We have a
>fictional author--Buddy Glass--writing a "real" history (real to him,
that
>is). But Buddy is himself a fictional character, so his "real" history
is, to
>us, fiction. How do we approach this work?
So, I don't remember this too well, but last semester I studied Barthes
and the Mythologies, and the teacher mentioned the "vanishing author"
theory really briefly. Does anyone know more about this? Seems it could
apply here in kind of an interesting way. Looking at the stories as
written by Buddy, with the knowledge we have of his character and
family, contrasts with looking at them as just another story by
Salinger, but also with the awareness of Salinger's other stories about
the Glasses. What about looking at it in an authorial vacuum, as it
were? Is that what Barthes was all about?
emily
john, how did you like my use of your "intellectual" phrase? i thought i
pulled it off rather nicely, as it were.
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