Re: documentary on salinger?

--- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> but there's quite a bit
> outside any of an
> author's books that allow us to interpret him or her
> -- interviews with old
> friends, family, publishers, letters, etc. There's
> a sense in which _my_
> image of Joyce, say, is less personal to me. Joyce
> was what he was
> regardless of my image of him, and understanding
> other images of Joyce can
> help me understand the real Joyce a bit more.
>

hey, i'm the biggest sucker for all of the above.
it's just that i can't stand the experience of seeing
the author or his characters impersonated on the
silver screen.

> But then there's that drawing of Harry on the cover
> of the book.

that's my point. it interferes with the reader's own
creative imagination. one's own imagination must
defer to, or compete with, these visual
representations, whether illustrations or movies.
that drawing of holden on the old paperback always
bugged me. as did the drawings of some of the
characters which appeared in 'time' magazine in '61.

 
kim

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