Subject: RE:a return hello.
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Thu May 29 1997 - 01:28:35 GMT
ok, bellow's _humboldt's gift_ blew me away 20 years ago, but I don't
reread bellow or updike or roth (though tim o'connor has me convinced I
want to read roth's new book) the way I can reread salinger...I mean I can
always read any of his prose over and over again aware that I'll get more
and at the same time entering fictive worlds and consciousnesses that
unfold
into me in some of my deepest and best moments...I guess I feel more
fortunate to return to salinger texts because they never fail to engage
and provoke (the literary equivalent to "lock and load" I suppose).
but before the flames, I also know that my hierarchy of reading is only
one person's reading life and all of our reading lives grow from our
differences...I'm not sure (it's late and I want to read and sleep) if
this is too dreamy but maybe lit is so much fun because it is naturally
polysemantic and at the same time offering concretized perception in the
object of the book and its prose and its reader. (no plural intended
except "amateur" in the best salingerian terms, will)
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