Re: Salinger and Barthes
Lauren N Passot (madbravo@juno.com)
Sun, 13 Sep 1998 18:54:58 -0500
The moment "pen to paper" occurs characters are born and if someone is
writing them they exist. Unless you want to take this to a metaphysical
level. Then the moment characters enter thought they are born. Or even
further they were always there and they merely needed someone to round
them up. It's just a matter of opinion. Just as "the tree falling in the
woods is".
Best,
Lauren
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On Sat, 12 Sep 1998 17:05:15 -0700 jrovira@juno.com (Jim Rovira) writes:
><<My main question here is, where does that leave Salinger's unread
>manuscripts? Can a text truly be "written" if no one is around to read
>it (kind of a spin on the tree-falling-in-the-woods question)? I'm not
>sure where I stand on this question, but I'm leaning toward "NO." I
>mean, I've written dozens of crappy stories and poems that no one has
>ever read, and to me those stories are dead. They have not been given
>life by the reader, so they just end up being words without meaning.>>
>
>Well, that's just it. Every text has at least one reader--the author.
> The author becomes the reader after the text is done.
>
>Jim
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