Subject: Re: Who wrote Catcher? [Was :Re: Basketball with the Big Boys [was RE: Words...
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 19:48:42 EST
In a message dated 1/25/00 7:06:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, oconnort@nyu.edu
writes:
> It is the frame-within-a-frame device; try reading IF ON A WINTER'S
> NIGHT A TRAVELER by Italo Calvino, which is written in the second person
> and which tells a story in which you, the reader, are a character. Or
> Martin Amis's TIME'S ARROW, where the narrative is in reverse, literally
> (like showing a movie backward). I don't mean that either of these
> emulates the technique, but each boldly displays a technique of fooling
> or involving or confounding the reader.
>
> --tim
Two things...
By frame within a frame you mean Salinger is screwing with us, right :)
And the correct title is _If on a winter's night a traveler. . ._
:)
Jim
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