Subject: holden, et al. vs. the glasses
From: Kim Johnson (haikux2@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 12:07:10 EDT
surely you're not suggesting that salinger's writing,
after 'the catcher', is the work of a looney?
i for one certainly don't subscribe to the slant that
the literary career of jds should have ended, or would
have been better had it ended, if he had stopped
writing after holden. i know that the general
critical view of the situation is indeed just that:
after holden it's pretty downhill. or so they say.
chronologically, after 'the catcher', you then get
only 'ddsbp', 'teddy', and the 5 glass stories.
granted, in the 22nd century salinger might be known
only as a very minor author with one book of note:
'the catcher'. then again, in the 22nd century his
glass stories might be acknowledged as his 'finnegans
wake'. a lot depends, i think, on those pages in the
vault. one even muses that he himself might have
wished he hadn't ever published 'the catcher', given
all the grief it's brought him. but i'm certainly
grateful he did publish it. it's one of the books
most important to me in a personal way.
but if forced to choose between never reading 'the
catcher' or the glass stories, i'd give up holden in a
blink.
kim
"L. Manning Vines" <lmanningvines@hotmail.com>
wrote:
Kim said:
<< certainly salinger outgrew holden; it would seem
that
he didn't outgrow the glasses. >>
Or maybe out-crazied?
-robbie
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