RE: revelation
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Wed, 09 Sep 1998 10:47:54 -0600 (MDT)
I respectfully disagree but don't know. I do think Mr. Salinger wants to
protect his characters and do hope they've continued to grow in his
stories in that safe. I enjoy the progression of his work from very
standard (though interesting and well crafted) stories in the forties, to
his longer and more innovative work in the fifties and sixties. I don't
think he has tapped the well and it's empty, but if all he writes is what
we now have, I'd say that is a well that continues to refresh in any case.
will
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, PODESTA,Lesley wrote:
> 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
>