Re: 1944, Total War Diary = The Children's Echelon

I don't see how you can assume anything else until another manuscript
shows up. There's always that possibility, though....and the
possibility that he tried the same type of project more than once.
Seems most likely, though, that TCE is a retitled TWD.

Jim

ANELLO Michael J wrote:

>From Hamilton's A Writing Life, page 76. "Salinger then describes an
>interesting-sounding new work he has just completed-six thousand words long
>and called "Total War Diary": "a hectic, sweet-and-sour diary-form job done
>by an eighteen-year-old girl. She records the history of her own sad,
>never-meant-to-be War Marriage (of which I've seen plenty)." It's "loaded
>with psychological clues" and is in part modeled on Ring Lardner's "I Can't
>Breathe.""
>
>"The Children's Echelon." - (26 pp. of double-spaced typescript with the
>by-line J. D. Salinger). A two-part story in the form of eleven diary entries
>by Bernice Herndon with the first entry on January 12, her 18th birthday, and
>the last on March 25 of the same but unspecified year. With the war in the
>background, Bernice changes her opinion about almost everything she
>mentions-her friends, family, and the war. In one entry, Bernice, like Holden
>Caulfield, mentions that she loved to watch children at the merry-go-round.
>Unpublished at Princeton's Firestone Library.
>
>In your opinion, can we assume more than 50% that "The Children's Echelon" is
>"Total War Diary?" (I'm going through and taking an inventory of some of
>these weird Salinger titles floating around in my head, pardon me.)
>
>
>

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