Re: Salinger's "no-fluff tone"
Emily Friedman (bananafish_9@yahoo.com)
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 19:29:43 -0800 (PST)
---Paul Janse <PJanse@compuserve.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
I agree that Salinger had a style all of his own but I consider his
writing style to be dry like a nice red wine. Salingers words are
quick and to the point but they are put together in great detail
unlike Hemingway, it's hard for me to explain. It's kind of hard to
describe baroque as a writing style. Nabokov's work is more poetic and
full of imagery. His style kind of reminds me of Fitzgerald's style.
-Liz Friedman
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