Re: For Esme Interview

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At 11:23 AM -0400 on 6/13/99, Pierrot65 wrote:

> I should
> also say that the esteemed Harold Ober is, indeed, esteemed.

And also very dead.  Gone too, is Salinger's longtime agent, Dorothy Olding.

Well, the woman who inherited him at the agency at least doesn't have to
spend her time on the phone a lot, negotiating movie and TV rights....

Regarding Esme, I do not recall reading an interview (of the few he has
given) in which he says that there is anything autobiographical in the
story.  Hamilton, and many other readers, have interpreted the story that
way (that Salinger, shattered in one way or another, transposed his war
experience into Sgt. X's story), but Salinger consistently points back to
the work, whether talking about Holden Caulfield or Esme or anyone else.
("Just read it again.  It's all in there," he said, in a memorable quote I
am paraphrasing.)

--tim o'connor

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