Re: Literary Faith


Subject: Re: Literary Faith
From: William Hochman (wh14@is9.nyu.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 23 2000 - 18:58:01 EST


Sorry Jim but I don't agree that Salinger is simply distilling the
essense of Bible, Upanishads etc.. I might even guess that his spirtual
ability to sense such essnces is fictive. I'm guessing that there's more
rhetoric to the storytelling and sprituality in Salinger's stories. The
religious stories about Seymour and Teddy sketch only the briefest
seeking and state some of the principle concepts of some of the world's
religions, and yet they trigger deep confidence in Salinger's and stories'
religious insights. I tend to agree that Salinger's insights are worthy,
but I'd like to better understand how he does it.

will

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