Re: BANANAFISH digest 132
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Tue, 21 Oct 1997 14:52:43 -0600 (MDT)
it gets better--ray kinsella is the main character in "A Young Girl in
l941 With No Waist At All" a story mr. salinger published in Mademoiselle
in l947. I almost wrote to mr. Kinsella (the author) to see if he knew
that he was already a salinger character and if that was part of why
salinger is a character in _Shoeless Joe_.
btw, I really enjoy kinsella's fiction. In _Shoeless Joe_ I felt as if I
got as close to "jerry salinger" as I was ever going to get except in mr.
salinger's own fiction.
will
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997 Moviezzz@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 97-10-21 04:00:45 EDT, bananafish@lists.nyu.edu writes:
>
> >I never noticed the metaphor in The Field of Dreams to being that of
> >Salinger. Makes me want to watch the movie again though.
> >
>
> In the novel SHOELESS JOE, which FIELD OF DREAMS was based on, JD is a
> character. The James Earl Jones character in the film was JD in the book
> (changed in the film for legal reasons). There are many references to
> CATCHER in the book, it seems the authors father has the same name as a
> character in CATCHER. A beautifully written book.
>
>