Subject: Re: JDS's first publication
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 17:19:15 GMT
will wrote:
>Warren French found that "Go See Eddie" was published in the
>University of Kansas City Review in December, l940, but I wondered which
>story Salinger finished first... [other story: "The Young Folks"]
Slightly haunted by will's remark, I decided to go back and read these two
stories (not having read them, or, for that matter, much of JDS's work,
since R.M. Nixon waved a tearful good-bye to a greatly relieved nation) to
see if I could deduce which was finished first.
After reading both, of course I can't say with certainty which preceded
which. But: I must say I found "Go See Eddie" almost completely devoid of
anything that one might suspect, looking back to his origins, to be a future
inkling of JDS. By contrast, "The Young Folks" frolics with intimations of
JDS.
Perhaps I just didn't do justice to "Go See Eddie" with my reading. Anyone
care to clue me in.
Oh, and for those of you who are in held-breath anticipation after my
announcement of starting _Hapworth_, a quick report on how I'm finding it.
I've _finally_ finished Buddy's italicized introduction: excellent! Soon, on
to the salutation of the letter proper.
--Bruce & his large blue ox
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