Subject: Salinger's critics
From: Tania Da Ros (rostania@tin.it)
Date: Wed May 24 2000 - 10:50:13 GMT
What Sofia said made me think of this: There is this book called 'The young
Salinger', by this guy, Romano Giachetti. It's supposed to be both a
biographical book and a critic to J.D.'s works. I guess you probably don't
know it (and thank your lucky star for it!) 'cause I don't think it has been
translated in English. Which was a smart decision 'cause it infuriated me so
much! Half of the book is dedicated to what, in this guy's view, Holden
would have criticised about our contemporary society. With that excuse he
went on and on ranting about how awful it is and how everything is even more
terrible than before and all that you would expect from an old bitter man
who has just had his window broken by some kids who were playing ball and
went out of his house saying 'Kids today!'. I mean, it was all an excuse to
complain about who the world is today and I hated that, also because I don't
think that Holden would have shared his vision, most of the time.
And what's even worse, he said that the only good thing Salinger had written
was TCITR, and that the Glass family stories were just eastern ramblings
than made no sense at all, dull zen mambo jumbo. He couldn't understand how
in the world he could have gone from that masterpiece that TINTR is to
those stories, and to those unrealistic and boring and senseless characters.
He felt that there was a big, inexplicable change: Nothing remained of his
early works in the late works and nothing in the new work was there in the
first one. He went on and on about this, wishing that, if it's true that he
is still writing, he's not continuing with the Glass family. Man, that made
me so mad, and sad.
Tania
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