Subject: Re: later salinger
From: Kim Johnson (haikux2@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 17:28:06 EDT
'imperative for salinger's development'
i need a proofreader.
kim
--- Kim Johnson <haikux2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> my personal feeling is that writing 'the catcher'
> was
> imperature for salinger's development. if indeed he
> worked on it for ten years, it must have come as
> some
> relief to send it off to little, brown for
> publication. it's only after 'the catcher' that
> salinger's religious concerns are allowed full play
> in
> his work. 'ddmbp' with everybody is a nun; 'teddy'
> with the overt allegiance to vedanta; 'franny' with
> the jesus prayer; and then we're on to the glass
> family with 'raise high', etc. (i would agree with
> updike that franny of 'franny' is not franny glass.)
>
> i believe warren french in his later salinger text,
> 'j.d.s. revisited' (great title!) remarks that buddy
> glass is salinger's second most developed character.
>
> the i voice of buddy is as accomplished, if not
> more,
> than the i voice of 'the catcher'. and as french
> remarks, salinger went off the rails when he
> ventured
> into the seymour i voice in 'hapworth'. french says
> that salinger's silence began after he realized the
> mistake he committed in the last third of
> 'hapworth'--the book list. it was as though
> salinger
> had done the very thing that he cautioned himself
> against in that sarah lawrence class--labelling the
> writers he loves, instead of just shouting out their
> names. of course, one imagines that the shock of
> the
> inner cirlce upon reading 'hapworth' filtered back
> to
> salinger. if so loyal a reader as william maxwell
> could remark that the story displayed a total
> cessation of talent ...
>
> ah well, maybe the unpublished texts pick up with
> the
> magnificence of 'seymour: an introduction'
>
> any thoughts?
>
> kim
>
>
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