Re: Linklater
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:25:27 +1100
Pierrot65 wrote:
> Something I'd like to open up is: don't you wish Salinger would have
tackled,
> in book-length form, romance? I mean the boy/girl kind, the Before
Sunrise
> kind. I get the feeling from his work and what I know of the period that
> serious lit at the time didn't take L-O-V-E very seriously.
True, true. I can't think of any boy-girl relationship in Salinger that was
really fruitfully explored - or wasn't just plain screwed up what with Mary
Hudsons and Muriels and Lois Taggets. Some horrid critics have claimed that
the only real romance in Catcher is that between Phoebe and Holden, which
is just plain gross (: but I think this perception is linked to the one
that I had last week about Mr Antolini. I think Salinger wishes to make a
very large distinction between love and Love as he might say; he seems to
believe that confusing romantic with platonic love is one of the primary
signs of phoniness. But I agree - wouldn't it be lovely if we had a
Salingerian equivalent of Nabokov's `Ada' ? The closest I can think of is a
movie I already mentioned both on and off list, `The Clock', which `Before
Sunrise' was partially based on and I believe is the sort of movie Salinger
probably would have prefered `My Foolish Heart' to be like (:
Camille
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