Salinger's "no-fluff tone"

Pasha Paterson (gpaterso@richmond.edu)
Mon, 09 Nov 1998 12:37:14 -0500

At 19:41 11/07/98 -0500, Kari wrote:
>As far as the "1950's" style you're trying to get to, I always lump
>Salinger with Vonnegut and even Hemingway, to a point. I think it's the
>matter-of-fact, no-fluff tone. They just tell it like it is.

I found this observation interesting.  I agree that early Salinger
stories are written in dry, terse, dense style.  However, it seems
to me that Buddy Glass, the "author" of some of the later stories,
is at times the champion of superfluous prose, especially in the
beginnings of "Zooey" and "S:aI".
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