Subject: Re: Eudora Welty
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliabaader@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 16:12:33 GMT
--- Will Hochman <hochman@southernct.edu> wrote:
> Sure enough, Eudora Welty saw Salinger as the real deal calling him
> "a very serious artist" in her review of 9 Stories called "Threads of
> Innocence."
Eudora Welty was my very favorite kind of critic: one who tended to
find what she *liked* about a work and discuss that.
I first came across Welty ten years ago, when I first read Virgina
Woolf's TO THE LIGHTHOUSE. Welty wrote the introduction (the same one
used today in the current Harcourt paperback printing, I believe) to the
novel, and based purely upon her love for the book that I so loved, I
looked up her work. Read THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER for the story which
I've never forgotten, a small story full of simplicity with connotations
that will follow you forever.
The New York Times has a terrific webpage devoted to her, which features
audio links of Welty reading some of her more famous stories, including
"Why I Live at the P.O.":
http://nyt.com/books/98/11/22/specials/welty.html
I'm not surprised that Welty would like Salinger. They both wrote about
loving the freaks, no?
Regards,
Cecilia.
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