Re: jd is just an author
J J R (jrovira@juno.com)
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:10:24 -0500 (EST)
>
>My point was merely, that when you know a lot of personal facts about
>an
>author it´s easier to say the he/she wrote this or that piece based on
>
>a certain life-experience... That is not really the case with
>Salinger...
>We know a few things but next to nothing compared to other authors...
>
>Abra
>
CS Lewis is another one of my favorite authors, and he's one of those
rare birds that is both an accomplished literary critic AND a successful
fiction writer. He's written essays about reading book reviews that
speculated on the intersection between Lewis's life and his fiction
work--how he let one influence the other. He said, without exception,
the book reviewers were wrong. I mean, they NEVER guessed right. He
didn't know if he was the rule or the exception, but I thought it was an
interesting observation.
It's a worthless enterprise, to me, to try to second guess authors in
that way. I'd rather just pay close attention to what they wrote :)
Jim
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