Re: The Heart of ...

James J Rovira (jrovira@juno.com)
Thu, 06 May 1999 18:19:41 -0400 (EDT)

Yeah, I just read a couple of the underpublished stories myself,
recently, and had a similar experience :)

Jim

On Tue, 04 May 1999 17:27:25 +1000 Camille Scaysbrook
<verona_beach@geocities.com> writes:
>I just read `the Heart of a Broken Story' - and I was quite amazed 
>that, at
>this early time (1941) the issues of the mature Salinger were 
>obviously
>firmly entrenched even in a little piece of magazine fluff like that 
>(as
>I'm sure he would have regarded it). You can trace a direct lineage 
>from
>this to Hapworth. His obsession with letters, for example. There are 
>shades
>of Jane Gallager in the heroine. Most notably there is his fluidity of 
>time
>- the little vignettes that make up the story are in essence the Glass
>stories in miniature - a selection of disparate stories which combine 
>to
>create a greater whole. I'm fascinated, for example, by the alternate
>versions of the possibilities seem to cancel each other out, a little 
>like
>how Bananafish is `cancelled out' somewhat by the later Glass stories. 
>Hey,
>there's a doozy. When you think about it, Bananafish is really only 
>Buddy
>presenting one possibility, when you think about it.
>
>Sure, a lot of Salinger's early stories are trifles, but they reward
>serious scrunity.
>
>Camille
>verona_beach@geocities.com
>@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
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>

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