Subject: Re: John Updike
From: William Hochman (wh14@is9.nyu.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 10 2000 - 19:47:25 EST
Well, since you don't need me to cite the essay, let me suggest that
Updike reading Salinger loving the Glass family "too much" is really the
indicator of the text's successful illusion of love in the first
place. To discuss a text's characters in terms of their effects on
realities is to acknowledge a literary power. I've felt that criticism
from Updike and Fiedler regrarding JDS has always overlooked the fact that
Salinger' has completely made his readers "understand" the glass family so
intimately that the criticsim that follows imagines the characters'
realities as though they were realities...will
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