Re: Is Salinger from the Geat Generation?

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> 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."

So which side of the argument are you on? I can't quite figure out whether
you are saying you agree that Salinger's work will last because of its
universality, or it won't. I consider something `universal' to mean that it
transcends its time and place of composing (even, some would say, it's
author) to become almost a metonym for human experience - this is what I
meant about TCIR. It's pretty hard to figure out what does and doesn't fit
this criteria, or will or won't in the years to come.

Camille 
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