Salinger's "no-fluff tone"

Paul Janse (PJanse@compuserve.com)
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 03:48:04 -0500

I have never found Salionger's style 'dry', matter-of -fact',
'unornamented' or what you would like to call it. ln my opinion he is a
very careful stylist, something I would not say of Hemingway (as far as I=

know him). Although Salinger's style is not 'baroque' like Nabokov's, it
has a definite exquisite flavor of its own. I took a completely random
sample from F&Z, and blindly picked the sentence "Zooey frowned, but
academically". By whom else could this have been written but Salinger?

Paul Janse