Re: FW: gunnery

WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Thu, 08 Jan 1998 09:54:40 -0700 (MST)

According to most scholars I've read, there's little doubt Salinger
was tallking about rilke...Gary Lane, in an essay in _Studies in Short
Fiction_ (10)does a good job of explaining how understanding Rilke offers
an
explanation of seymour's suicide...see "Seymour's Suicide Again: A New
Reading of J.D. Salinger's 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'" by Gary Lane in
l973.

For those who buy into Salinger's aversion to "section men," this may be a
good article to see how you can really use criticism to deepen your own
readings...Gary Lane not only gave me a better read on the salinger story,
but he also helped me get a better feel for rilke as well...will

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, EEver73319 wrote:

> In a message dated 98-01-07 01:25:16 EST, you write:
> 
> << on the phone where the book of
>  poetry is--and it is exclusively in German--poems written by "the only great
>  poet of the century."  Rilke?  Died in 1926...so maybe.... >>
> 
> 
> Goethe?  I don't know, maybe he was in the 19th century.  Anyone agree on
> Rilke?  Any other guesses?
> 
> Eric
>