the uninitiated reader
Emily Moore (evmoore@hotmail.com)
Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:11:54 -0800 (PST)
>I think the only truly qualified reader of "Bfish" is someone who has
>no previous exposure to the Seymour industry. Our preconceptions >about
Seymour preclude our reading the story as Salinger "meant" it >in 1949.
In the Salinger community, though, uninitiated readers are >hard to
find.
Funny, it was APDFB that first enamoured me to Salinger... after reading
Catcher in school and enjoying it, but not too enthusiastically, I got 9
Stories for 10c (used). It was only after reading "Bananafish" that I
became the Salinger fan I am now. On the other hand, I idolized Seymour
even before reading F&Z or RHTRBC&SAI quite as much as his siblings did,
merely on the basis of that story. Does that make me a little odd?
-emily
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