RE: intelligence of the author vs. intelligence of the characters

where could i find these 22 uncollected stories? thanks

>===== Original Message From lray <lray@centenary.edu> =====
>I think it is kind of interesting hearing how and when people started getting
>into Salinger's work. I first read Catcher when I was a sophomore in
college;
>I was 19, I'm now 21. Within 6 months afterwards I had read everything he
had
>ever published including the 22 uncollected stories and since then I have
read
>Catcher twice and Franny and Zooey once and will probably reread everything
>again soon as there have been very few authors I have ever read where I have
>the sudden urge to run out and buy and hunt down everything they have ever
>published even looking under pseudonym's after I have exhausted everything
>else.
>I had never previously been presented Catcher before probably because I am
>from Texas and well....Catcher in the Rye is not the most widely accepted
>book. Although, I didnt really hear anything "bad" about it, it was just
>never brought up, like it wasnt even a possibility for curriculum, even in
the
>ritzy private school I spent my last two years of high school where we did
>read such things as Gardner's Grendel and O'Connor, and Hurston's Their Eyes
>Were Watching God. Maybe at that private school they had read Catcher in
>previous grades. Another interesting thing is that while the private school
I
>attended was in many ways more conservative than the public schools I had
>attended my whole life (probably due to its parochial nature - Episcopalian)
>yet the curriculum was much wider and professors had more free reign than I
>had ever encountered in public schools. For example, I rememeber a
government
>class where I was arguing with everyone else in the class of about 16 who all
>seemed to be future young republicans that someone wasn't necessarily an
idiot
>because they were poor. There is much much more that goes into it. I
>remember that conversation yet I also remember in an english class talking
>about the sadness of characters and existentialism in things like Gardner's
>Grendel and O'Connor's Wise Blood.
>Hopefully this will reach everyone.
>Best,
>Levi
>
>
>
>>===== Original Message From "m e g h a n" <bedroomdancing@hotmail.com> =====
>>>I actually feel the same way you do about Catcher and the Glass stories (I
>>>get a lot more out of the Glass stories). . .just, if you want to judge
>>>Salinger's influence, there's just no getting around or beyond Catcher.
>>
>>I agree also. What gets me about "Catcher" is that (this may be selfish)it's
>>not Salinger's best work, yet it's taught in high schools, which gets it a
>>lot of exposure. Then you have kids full of real or imagined angst who are
>>like, man that book is me! I can relate! And they then credit Salinger as
>>their favorite author.. without ever reading any of his other (better) work.
>>It's just given too much credit. The selfish part comes in because I first
>>read Catcher when I was 13, I had seen it in a bookstore and made my mom buy
>>it. Fast forward three years, it's being taught in english and there's 100
>>kids or however many in my class saying how much they love it.. when they
>>probably never would have read it on their own. I guess I should hope that
>>someone reads Catcher in english class, and then reads Salinger's other work
>>and falls in love with it like I did, and then I can thank Catcher for that.
>>
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