Re: The Inverted Forest

--- James Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
>
>
> woo. What a read. Why he didn't republish it, I
> don't know.

to salinger's consternation, it *was* republished
(before the famous pirating). in 1961, in the
original venue, 'cosmopolitan'.

> It
> certainly provides fodder
> for those wanting to draw parallels between Salinger
> and his characters,
> right or wrong, though -- may contribute to it.

i think of all his underpublished stories, this might
be one he might have wished he *never* published.

> The
> "Murielish"
> character is actually treated sympathetically and
> presented as a victim
> of her love for the poet and his
> emotional...problems, however you want
> to define them. It's said he's gone "cold inside."
>

yes, i agree. and doesn't waner warn her off of ford
when he tells her ford couldn't possibly love her
because--get this--to write the type of poetry ford
does (and waner calls ford a combo of coleridge, blake
and rilke) ford would have to be the biggest
psychopath imaginable.

yikes!

kim

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Received on Mon Mar 17 19:21:37 2003