Re: The Inverted Forest; walking on the ceiling

I accept this, Kim, but is there a difference between Salinger speaking
through Buddy about the artist, and Salinger speaking through the artist
himself? One is the interpretation of a certain type of person
(visionary poet) by another type of person (storyteller -- and it may be
a legitimate and valid interpretation so far as the points you raise are
concerned), the other a direct representation of the visionary poet himself.

I wonder why Saligner, for the most part, gives us the outside POV?
 Even though "Inverted Forest" really seemed to get into Ford's head, we
get in from the outside...we infer what's going on by observation,
Waner's observations -- which weren't even direct most of the time, but
mediated through his wife.

Jim

Kim wrote:

>...i ACTUALLY believe that's salinger
>speaking through buddy; that buddy's credo re the
>death of the artist, whether the coroner pronounces it
>by consumption, loneliness or suicide, the artist is
>truly being done in by the blinding shapes and colors
>of his own sacred human conscience; all this is an
>attempt to outweigh critical interpretation of the
>suicide, and the impression that since seymour
>committed suicide he can't be all of these things
>salinger respects.
>
>kim
>
>

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Received on Thu Mar 20 12:32:48 2003