RE: revelation
PODESTA,Lesley (Lesley.PODESTA@deetya.gov.au)
Wed, 09 Sep 1998 11:31:19 +1000
Scottie said:
> "And you know, as I read, it came to me in a great shaft of heavenly
>
> light why Salinger stopped publishing. He had simply come to
> the end of his particular road. That style - all those lists, all
> those endearing asides, those great solid wodges of roguishly
> subdividing clauses, the droll ruminations, the agonising
> self-modifications (all of which got much worse in his late stories)
>
> - that style had nowhere to go except endlessly outwards into a
> kind of monstrous coral."
>
> I had this very sad kind of stomach thump when I read your post
> Scottie. I think that there might be a grain of truth in there.He does
> have a real touch of the obsessive complusive about him and I suspect he
> knows that his writing style is being passed by. I suspect that we would
> read any new works with love, affection and a kind of indulgence - the
> characters are loved despite his overwritten style. (Well, that's how I
> felt when I read Hapworth, anyway.)
Lesley