Re: jd is just an author
Pasha Paterson (gpaterso@richmond.edu)
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:34:25 -0500
At 23:23 11/18/98 +0100, Abra wrote:
>I agree with you in some extend... He=B4s not a God, we all know that, but=
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>the separation of man and work is done by himself I=B4d say... He was=20
>never interested in telling about himself, so except for a few things=20
>we don=B4t know how much of the man is actually in his work...=20
Salinger went further in separating himself from his work: he eventually
ascribed most of the Glass stories to Buddy Glass himself, and only near
the end of his writing career (S:aI, Hapworth) did he begin to reidentify
himself with Buddy. Even then, it was a perverse identification, in that
instead of Buddy Glass moving back toward Salinger, Salinger seems to have
become Buddy Glass. (I feel this to be quite detrimental to the quality
of the last three long stories, as I can barely stand Buddy and couldn't
bring myself to finish even 15 pages of S:aI.)
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