Salinger and Joyce

Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:29:06 -0500

IrishCYCO@aol.com wrote:
 

> when reading joyce's character Stephen in Portrait of the artist  
> joe . . . 

The most intriguing Joyce/Salinger parallel I've ever noticed is
between "The Dead" and "Uncle Wiggily."  In many respects the same
story.  Consider especially the (conscious) echo of Joyce's phrase,
"Poor Michael Fury," in Salinger's, "Pooer Uncle Wiggily."

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Matt Kozusko    mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu