Re: Is Salinger from the Geat Generation?
Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Sun, 12 Jul 1998 23:47:36 -0400
Camille, worthy adversary:
> Good point, but then again, the average person knows pretty much nil about
> passados, punto reversos and Elizabethan folk lore but `Romeo + Juliet' was
> still a hit 400 years after its initial release.
I don't think much of Salinger's work will last that long.
> I think certain things,
> certain feelings and human traits will never be eroded by time.
To the extent that certain such things haven't yet been eroded by time, I
agree. And while I think Shakespeare has plenty of hundreds of years left in
him, Salinger is more local--less, as someone else put it, "universal."
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Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu