Re: Truth in paradox

--- Tim O'Connor <oconnort@nyu.edu> wrote:
> I don't
>know if he makes
> reference to this:
>
> There is a letter in the Princeton collection from
> Salinger to Whit
> Burnett, in which he makes reference to Martha Foley
> (Burnett's
> wife), as follows. I thought it might amuse those
> who followed the
> in-the-classroom comments about Burnett reading
> Faulkner to the
> class:
>
> Thank you for writing me. I hope Miss Foley is
> recovering rapidly. You ought to read aloud to her
> "That Evening Sun Go Down". You pulled me out of a
>
> mood when you read it to the class one night, and I
> had read the story several times.
>

tim, thanks for the above. it was news to me. very
interesting.

 
> In his 1940s letters to Burnett -- when he needed
> the older man --
> Salinger is quite adept at playing the part of the
> eager acolyte,
> kissing up to the more successful Burnett, who (at
> that point)
> is one path to success for a beginning writer like
> Salinger.
>
> That would change sadly by the Sixties, when a
> Burnett request to
> reprint a Salinger story was coldly brushed off by
> its author, who
> by then could afford to be quite aloof -- and he
> played it to the
> hilt, Jerry did.
>
> By that time, Burnett was at the end of his career,
> virtually an
> outcast, and could have used the boost of having
> Salinger in his
> pages. But old Jerry couldn't care less by that
> point. Burnett
> was merely an ancient stepping-stone by then, it
> appears.
>

i gotta say, jerry is a jerk.

--kim

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Received on Wed Nov 6 15:08:59 2002