Re: Sick More Glass


Subject: Re: Sick More Glass
From: scout thompson (one38@one38.org)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 02:12:40 GMT


Assuming that "For Esme" Is about Seymour- which I
always did...then It seems okay. Sounds like a
fascinating book, where did you find it?

citycabn wrote:
>
> I usually try to stay away from literary criticism, but I did say off-list
> that I would attempt to locate and read Eberhard Alsen's "Salinger's Glass
> Stories as a Composite Novel".
>
> Well, locate it I did. I didn't get further than page five, when I read,
> "In 1945, shortly after the end of the war, Buddy visits Seymour in the
> psychiatric ward of an army hospital, somewhere in Germany." From my
> reading of the stories, I couldn't recall *this*. Then I noticed in the
> Table of Contents a chapter titled "Seymour--A Chronology". I skipped over
> to see what might be noted about this hospital visit. No mention of Buddy's
> visit *there* opposite *1945*, though I read that "Seymour, 28, has a
> nervous breakdown and is treated in an Army hospital". The next entry reads
> "1945-48 Seymour remains in psychiatric wards of Army hospitals for most of
> the last three years of his life." Startled, I now read that in "1941
> Seymour attempts to commit suicide" and "Seymour now drinks quite a bit".
> Alsen then goes on to prove that Buddy can't remember the date of Seymour's
> successful suicide: it's March 19th, not the 18th.
>
> My question is (before I attempt to recommence my reading of Alsen), do
> these "facts" in Alsen's Chronology of Seymour's life seem right to you?
>
> --Bruce
>
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