Re: Hello all
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Wed, 12 May 1999 15:37:51 +1000
Jim wrote:
> But yes, there are stylistic similarities between Lolita and Catcher.
You really think so??? As much as I love Nabokov and Salinger, they're two
writers that to me couldn't be more different in style. Nabokov's writing
is like a Swarzovski crystal, made vaguelly in the shape of life but really
just transmuting it in sharp, perfectly honed lines. He's the epitome of
art for art's sake, of Oscar Wilde's `There are no moral or immoral books,
just well written ones and poorly written ones.' Salinger I'm sure takes no
less care in his construction but his purpose seems far more didactic than
Nabokov's which makes their styles incompatible to me. The genius of
Catcher is that it is a tightly constructed piece but which seems wholly
random. Lolita is more a tightly constructed piece that seems exactly like
a tightly constructed piece (: It's there for show, and show only. What
exactly did you see as similar about them, Jim?
Camille
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