Re: the literary life
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Sat, 03 Oct 1998 09:05:33 -0600 (MDT)
Akemi, I think what we really know of most authors is what they write, but
it's harder to know something from fiction than from memoirs and other
forms of reporting...what we learn of salinger regarding love or the
way many of us are vulgar from his writing says a lot more about the man
than what has been reported...will
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998 Akemi@kktv.com wrote:
> I think I'm coming in on a conversation after a few replies but my view
> is that sure it's great to learn more about an author's personal life
> but do we really have the right to? I think I could read jd's stuff
> just as well not knowing anything from his personal life. Sometimes I
> think it makes it even better because then the piece is open to a number
> of translations instead of saying oh this happened in his life this must
> be what he's trying to get at. Do you understand where I'm coming
> from? or am I completely missing what you two were talking about.
> akemi
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