Re: jd is just an author
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Thu, 19 Nov 1998 17:33:22 +1100
> Pasha Paterson wrote:
>
> > Salinger went further in separating himself from his work: he
eventually
> > ascribed most of the Glass stories to Buddy Glass himself,
Abra wrote:
> Meaning what??? Did he claim Buddy was a real person or did he say his
> stories were all totally made up???
No ... I think Salinger has created his own autonomous reality. The only
one who's allowed in there is him (none of us of course except for the
small sampling of work he's left us) - he is the only one with a code name
for entry. He doesn't really need to be JD Salinger any more, nor does he
need the real world. Even his stories towards the end of what we know of
them are wholly self referential; characters writing letters to characters,
for characters. Us real people are totally peripheral - which JDS obviously
realised and stopped supplying them to us.
Camille
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