2 early Holden Caulfields
Bernd Wahlbrinck (Bernd.Wahlbrinck@t-online.de)
Sun, 06 Jun 1999 19:06:19 +0100
FROM: Bernd Wahlbrinck 06.06.1999 18:58:53 MET GERMANY
bernd.wahlbrinck@t-online.de
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According to Warren French (J.D.Salinger, Revisited, p.35) - a book,
by the way, which I recommend to everybody who is interested in
in-depth analysis of JDS's works - there are 2 early short stories in
which Holden Caulfield appears: "I'm Crazy" (Collier's, 1945), and
"Slight Rebellion Off Madison" (New Yorker, 1946).
In contrast to the Catcher, these 2 stories are apparently written in
the third person, "thus lacking the poignancy and immediacy of the
final version" (French).
This sounds very interesting indeed to me, and so I was wondering
whether anybody possibly knows if there is any way of getting access
to these stories?!
Bernie