RE: Hapworth publication delayed?


Subject: RE: Hapworth publication delayed?
From: Will Hochman (hochman@southernct.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 19 2002 - 18:59:20 EST


I agree Levi, but I think some of the uncollected and unpublished
stories are more than just more Salinger. William Maxwell believed
that Salinger's sense of perfection was very powerful--though I think
it was "too" powerful because of all the good stories that didn't
make it into the Nine. "The Inverterd Forest" still haunts me and
though not typical of the other 9 stories, I think it should have
been part of that collection. (I think Eberhard Alsen was the first
to make this point.) I think Salinger's literary values and sense of
self obscured the value of his early work to the author. The
uncollected stories show Salinger' s experiments and growth and
become part of his craft and growth.I don't know, but I'm guessing
Salinger prefes a "cleaner" myth about his work than the uncollected
stories might show.

will

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