Re: Literary References (was Re: TLM and Tale of Two Cities)


Subject: Re: Literary References (was Re: TLM and Tale of Two Cities)
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Thu Oct 05 2000 - 12:57:06 GMT


 Pasha Paterson wrote:

>> Speaking of literary references, one thing that has always been puzzling
to me
>> is the passage in Catcher where Holden talks about D.B.'s favorite books
and
>> authors: Fitzgerald's _The_Great_Gatsby_, and anything by Ring Lardner.
Why
>> these? Was JD just giving a shout-out to his buddy Scott? What was his
>> connection to Lardner?

And Tim replied:

>Well, Gatsby is a pretty amazing book, so it could easily be a salute
>to a knockout of a novel. Lardner was himself pretty popular when
>Salinger was young, and even wrote for the New Yorker, the way the
>young Salinger aspired to do.
>
>I don't believe there was ever any documented personal meeting between
>Salinger and Fitzgerald; from what I recall, F.S.F. died when Salinger
>was about 21, before the younger writer had achieved any acclaim.

I've always been surprised that Fitzgerald did not make that c. 1951 list of
Salinger's literary loves.

--Bruce

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