Re: Salinger and children's literature

lucy,

what an interesting post.

i would add buddy praises bessie for finding 'east of
the sun and west of the moon' with the kay nielson
illustrations.

http://www.ifyoulovetoread.com/book/chtwo_storiesfulleast.htm

http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/illustrations/eastsunwestmoon/nielseneast.html

and there's a put-down of winnie the pooh: when bessie
finds franny crying again and asks why, zooey says
'somebody hide her pooh books.'

don't recall others, but i imagine there are.

kim

--- Lucy Pearson <l_r_pearson@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've just had a half formed thought about the way
> that Salinger refers to children's stories in his
> writing. Two of the 'Nine Stories' refer back to
> children's stories and seem to use them as points of
> human contact. In 'Bananafish' Seymour talks with
> Sybil about 'Little Black Sambo', while Walt's 'poor
> old Uncle Wiggly' is a reference to another popular
> 1950s storybook character. I don't recall, offhand,
> if there are other references to children's books
> (there may be some I haven't picked up on - it's
> only quite recently I realised about the Uncle
> Wiggly reference), and I'm the wrong nationality and
> the wrong generation to be familiar with these
> books, but it strikes me that this could be an
> interesting line of enquiry. Anyone know anything /
> have any ideas?
>
> Lucy-Ruth (still lurking around)
>
>
>
>
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Received on Thu Oct 2 12:51:07 2003