Subject: RE: Banned Books
From: Lisa M. Rabey (lisar@net-link.net)
Date: Wed Mar 12 1997 - 22:52:03 GMT
At 09:31 PM 3/11/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Whoa. Nice Dylan reference.
>
>Also, and more importantly, on the remark that was made about modern
>writing being tripe or crap or whatever word was used, not having any
>significance or sense of timelessness (I'm doing a horrible job of
>paraphrasing, but I trust you know to what I'm referring), may I point out
>that is is important to seperate the Danielle Steeles of the world from
>the actual literature of the day. The work of Steele, etc., as far as I'm
>concerned, simply don't count. We must instead focus on the truly
>literary(not to mention literate) works being published. When one does
>this, one realizes that we are actually prety well off:
> Cormac McCarthy
> E.Annie Proulx
> Barbara Kingsolver
> John Updike
>I could conceivably go on. The point is we are not so culturally bankrupt
>as is sometimes (cynically) believed.
>
> _George F
George,
you make a good point.
But, I believe that you may have been mixing some things up here, but I
could be wrong.
In many of the posts I have made here, and, on various of other lists that
are in similiar topic nature, many have critized "modernistic" literature
-as- tripe. Okay, given, that is their opinion, while I have argued that
most of what is considered "classical" literature, is in my opinion,
"tripe". This argument, could be argued back and forth, for aeons.
I brought up the Steele referenced, because it could be commonly called
"pulp fiction". She has on basic story line, in which, she has created
over 20 books, making a killing. Could she be considered an author or even
yet, could her works be considered "literature"? Its all subjective, but I
think, that those that are not so feed upon what she writes, (which, i can
dare say, be majority of those that read), and others like her, would say
"hell no, its trash".
I believe, personally (and this does not reflect NetLink Systems, nor AST
computers (seeing as I am using their computer), Qualcomm Software (for
using Eudora Pro for email), MCI (for using their bandwidth to send this)
or anyone else involved in making this happen), that modernists, who could
conceivably be those you mentioned above (Did you ever read Updike's
"A&P"?), and also including others such as Hubert Selby JR, Leonard Cohen,
and scades of other authors, who make a statement, writing about what they
believe in.
This is, of course, all a reflection of the 'times', and in which is why I
like Salinger so much.
In all of his works that I have read, the common theme seems to be that he
is fighting against the norm. Seeking out and creating characters that
would be theoretically, be trouble makers (such as in "Raise high the
roofbeams", the societies view of Seymour, from which buddy heard)
jmo.
ttfn.
lisa
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