Re: So stand up and introduce yourself.
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sat, 31 Oct 1998 16:40:54 +1100
This is the distinction I've always drawn between Salinger and (to pull a
name out of the air (: ) Rand. Salinger tends to make his beliefs a slave
to his story, Rand to make her stories a slave to her beliefs. Salinger
only once oversteps this crucial division - in Teddy - and even then it's
not exactly a `preachy' story.
> The problem I have is that a value system is either artificially imposed
> upon the text, or the text is made subservient to a value system. I
> still believe in the objectivity of texts, to a degree--forgive my lack
> of sophistication on the matter. I think a value system can be drawn out
> of a text rather than imposed upon it.
>
> I'd say Ayn Rand, since she's been discussed a lot lately, is a good
> exception. She was both novelist and consciously and deliberately a
> philosopher.
Camille
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