Subject: Re: Sun Also Rises and "Six."
From: Chris Kubica (ckubica@insightbb.com)
Date: Thu Jun 20 2002 - 08:02:10 EDT
I want to read some Cheever now. What does anyone recommend?
Why do YOU think JDS uses "six?"
Sincerely,
chris kubica
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> From: Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu>
> Organization: Drew University
> Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:09:53 -0400
> To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> Subject: Re: Sun Also Rises and "Six."
>
> I think I could be convinced about some stylistic affinities between
> Hemingway and Salinger if we only looked at Salinger's earlier work (I
> liked Scottie's post too :) -- esp. what he said about For Esme). And
> yeah, the fish-fish thing needs research to support it, but it is an
> interesting parallel...you never know ;).
>
> But, say, the Salinger that wrote Uncle Wiggly and Pretty Mouth does sound
> an awful lot like Cheever to me. It leads me to believe that that's just
> how people were writing back then.
>
> Jim
>
> Will Hochman wrote:
>
>> I actually agree with Scottie--though Salinger worshipped Hemingway
>> as most writers did/do, I don't see many stylistic affinities and
>> agree with Jim that Salinger and Cheever sound more similar. As for
>> the point about 6 fish making a literary allusion, not in my class
>> and unless there's more evidence posted, the point fails on this list
>> as well (sorry chris).
>>
>>> One thing that struck me when I went back to my notes on Salinger's
>>> correspondence with Hemingway was this little confession added in
>>> post script from a letter Salinger wrote to Hemingway in l946: "My
>>> book of stories project collapsed...I'm still tied up with lies and
>>> affections, and to see my name on a dust jacket would postpone any
>>> real improvement several more years."
>>
>> Perhaps Salinger's aversion to phony writing is something he may have
>> learned from Hemingway? will
>>
>> --
>> Will Hochman
>>
>> Associate Professor of English
>> Southern Connecticut State University
>> 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515
>> 203 392 5024
>>
>> http://www.southernct.edu/~hochman/willz.html
>>
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