Re: Expansion

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Thiswas an essay in Studies in Short Fiction and I guess I liked the way
Gary Lane links ideas in rilke to APDFB.  I think he doesn't really
explain the suicide as he thinks, but the insights and links from rilke do
add depth to what I understand about some of the difficulties Seymour may
be feeling.

I also prefer the later Seymour stories and though my class may not agree,
SAI is really a great story about story writing and the conflict or
tension between poetry and fiction.

will

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Erin McLaughlin wrote:

> Hey Will, can you expand on this a bit? I'm plenty interested, but I 
> have to admit I have no idea what you're talking about. Is it an 
> article, an essay? I'm too impatient to try to figure it out. But RHTRBC 
> & Intro was my favorite book. Stories. Whatever.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> "In RHTRBC, Buddy complains that world doesn't see Seymour for the poet 
> he
> is...Gary Lane, however, in "Seymour's Suicide Again: JD Salinger's
> 'APDFB'," does attempt to explain Seymour's bullet eating in terms of
> Rilke's Duino Elegies...nice piece of poetic logic though I don't buy 
> into
> the idea that Salinger was reflecting Rilke since I think Seymour is 
> more
> than Rilke's poems even though there are enough direct allusions to make
> the case. will"
> 
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