Re: Quiet list? there's always
J J R (jrovira@juno.com)
Thu, 02 Jul 1998 13:31:36 -0400 (EDT)
<<However, I've never read or
heard anything much at all about Salinger's life, and from Catcher and
Franny and Zooey, I believe that someone very close and important to him
died, and that Salinger has a real problem with the many irritating
aspects of human behavior, to the point that people think something's
wrong with him.
I could be wrong.
Cheryl>>
eh, my assumption would almost always be that an author was writing from
his experiences--whether stories he heard others tell, or his own life
experiences. I believe Salinger was hospitalized, I'm sure he suffered
loss, and I'm pretty sure he has a problem with people in general :) My
fiction writing is almost always dependent upon life experiences.
But my point is that understanding the meaning of the text I write isn't
helped in any way by knowledge of the life experiences behind them. When
I read, I read texts the other way. I try to see my life experiences in
the texts to see how they help Me, for one thing, and then when I'm
talking about the meaning of the text I move away from that (somewhat)
and look more at the ideas presented and the emotions attached to them.
Jim
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