Re: jd is just an author
Pasha Paterson (gpaterso@richmond.edu)
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:33:29 -0500
At 00:04 11/19/98 +0100, Abra wrote:
>Pasha Paterson wrote:
>
>> Salinger went further in separating himself from his work: he eventually
>> ascribed most of the Glass stories to Buddy Glass himself,
>
>Meaning what??? Did he claim Buddy was a real person or did he say his
>stories were all totally made up???
Buddy himself claims authorship of the earlier stories within a later one.
I'll need outside reinforcements to name it, but I think it's S:aI. (Yes,
though I couldn't stand to read it, I've tried to learn about it.)
>> and only near
>> the end of his writing career (S:aI, Hapworth) did he begin to reidentify
>> himself with Buddy.
>
>As I remember, I had no problem with S:aI, so I might have missed the
>change... Hapworth I have never read... Where can I find that one???
Hapworth should be coming out in book form before we all die, though it's
becoming more doubtful by the day; otherwise, it was the last story ever
published by JD in the NYer. As for the change in writing style, I would
contend that the differences between, say, "Bananafish" and "Zooey" are
quite striking.
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