Subject: Who wrote Catcher? [Was :Re: Basketball with the Big Boys [was RE: Words, words, words]
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 18:22:19 EST
Who wrote _The Catcher in the Rye_?
"Some people--not close friends--have asked me whether a lot of Seymour
didn't go into the young leading character of the one novel I've published."
I'm getting confused.
--Bruce
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From: Tim O'Connor <oconnort@nyu.edu>
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: Basketball with the Big Boys [was RE: Words, words, words]
>On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 03:16:32PM -0500, erespess@nji.com wrote:
>
>> >Do we know from Salinger's other fiction that Buddy was supposed to be
the
>> >author of F and Z?
>>
>> I forgot to say that although I do believe that Franny of Franny is
>> Franny Glass, I do not believe that it's author is intended to be
>> Buddy. There is not nearly enough butting in with personal views as
>> there is when Buddy produces his prose home movies.
>
>I don't know ... I think it's there but more subtle -- especially in the
>opening scene, where the narrator acidly portrays the academic "boys"
>discussing issues that the non-matriculating world had been bungling.
>(That is a paraphrase.) Even the line that describes how each boy, upon
>the arrival of the train, manages to give the impression of having at
>least three lit cigarettes in each hand sounds like a classic Buddyism.
>
>There are definitely no Buddy HEADS popping up, but there is a subtle
>tone in much of the narrative that at least allows you to infer that old
>Buddy is at it again, this time, like Holden, traveling incognito.
>
>--tim
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