Subject: Re: Cheever and Salinger
From: Chris Kubica (ckubica@insightbb.com)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 12:32:41 EDT
Funny, we all keep saying 6 bananafish. I just checked. It's actually just
one bananafish with six bananas in his mouth! :)
Sincerely,
chris kubica
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> From: Will Hochman <hochmanw1@owl.southernct.edu>
> Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:44:20 -0400
> To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> Subject: Re: Cheever and Salinger
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> Jim Rovira makes good sense...associations and literary allusions are
> created by authors. For me and most on this list, Salinger's work
> creates strong possibilities. I respect the effort to imagine
> literary associations and allusions but the real thinking work (and
> fun!) is to prove how they logically and creatively work within the
> fiction to connect us to literature in general.
>
> Judiasm is one of Salinger's least developed religious directions,
> but I loved the way Cecillia could connect the kabbala and
> "soulsickness." I am a Jew and think the kabbala is one of the most
> interesting parts of the religion, but I don't think Salinger
> explored Judiasm deeply and I've often wondered why. I wondered if he
> ever mentioned the kabbala in print...maybe in
> Hapworth?...dunno...but I think he may have grown up as a Jew with
> something of an attitude to assimilate into secular culture. Judiasm
> seems to be part of the Glass family, but it's never at the "lox and
> bagels" level. "Down At the Dinghy" is the only story I can think of
> that really focuses on a Jewish point in Salinger's work. I don't
> know if there are any direct allusions to Hemingway in Salinger's
> fiction. None come to mind but others may know and I'd like to! All
> this to say, when I add up Judiasm and Hemingway in Salinger's work,
> the proof to make 6 bananafish into Hemingway's 6 trout is
> lacking...but I'm still listening.
>
> will
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