The Children's Echelon is at Princeton's Firestone Library. If I had someone
there tell me approx. how many words were contained in The Children's Echelon,
I bet they'd come back with 6,000. Maybe I'll do that.
Kim, Hamilton's A Writing Life says that Salinger came back to Burnett in 1944
with 8 titles which he thought were his best work at the time. 8 titles and 6
caulfield stories which he preferred to be as 6 chapters of his caulfield
book. and 15-20 more titles that his agent had but that he didn't think rang
his own bell enough.
so yeah, 1944...those 1959 dates must've been serious typos. i'm gonna have
to get back to my alexander and see why he says 1946.
>>> jrovira@drew.edu 10/10/03 06:23AM >>>
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Unpublished at Princeton's Firestone Library.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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