Re: ZOOEYCAM
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sat, 06 Mar 1999 12:19:09 +1100
> Ok, to the content. I Should Have Known that anything American would be
> a smattering of a lot of different disciplines. So it was Zen And a lot
> of other things.
Yes. JDS was never a one-religion man. (:
> I think Salinger was
> a writer First and a devotee of Zen and other eastern philosophies
> Second,
So do I. No matter what, Salinger is a writer first and foremost. *But* - I
still think you're misconstruing my point. I don't mean that Salinger was
attempting to produce any sort of religious parable for our times. I don't
mean that Holden was literally intended to be a Ramakrishna or a Buddha. I
think that this just may have been a useful way for JDS to think about it -
maybe Holden is meant to be proto-religious or maybe it was just a good
structuring device. To me, Salinger's use of the stories I mentioned in my
thesis seemed to be inside to out - that is, it was earlier used
externally, in the construction of stories, and later worked its way into
the very heart of his literature until, like Franny's Jesus Prayer, it
seems to be repeating itself over and over underneath the fabric of the
stories.
Camille
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