Subject: Allusions [Was: Re: Who wrote Catcher? [Was :Re: Basketball with the Big Boys [wasRE: Words, words, words]
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Fri Jan 28 2000 - 16:32:14 EST
>Salinger's sense of spirtuality is
>strong in his writing, but his religious allusions, though direct, do not
>strike me as abundant.
>
>will
>
In JDS's '55-'65 published fiction, I'm not sure in which order Allusions to
Literature, Religion, Philosophy, Music, Film, Painting, and Culinary Arts
win, place and show; or whether there are more Allusions to Religion than
other American writers of the same ten years (and hence might be termed
"abundant"); or whether JDS, in the first flush of discovering the
Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, didn't take to ringing doorbells with
pamphlets in hand (either in NYC or the Greater Cornish Metropolitan Area);
but I must say I agree that his "sense of spirituality is strong in his
writing".
--Bruce
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