Re: Sunday Times article

blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:56:45 -0500 (EST) 

Yeah, I understand the concern.  But even if his future work was weak,
that still doesn't change the fact that he's the man who wrote For Esme,
With Love and Squalor.  It won't shake the work we've all already read.

Something similar happened to Wordsworth.  We just ignore his later
poetry and appreciate his earlier stuff...and he's still Wordsworth, you
know?

Jim

On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:51:43 -0800 (PST) Florie Sommers
<writeflorie@hotmail.com> writes:
>Jim,
>
>But what if its weak. Every writer writes weak work sometimes. What it 
>
>it changes the way you feel about Salinger? I don't necessarily 
>believe 
>this view, I'm just being a devil's advocate because you know I would 
>be 
>running out to buy a copy of anything released. Its just my worry that 
>
>my feels about him would change if I was disappointed.
>
>Florie  
>
>
>>From: blah b b blah <jrovira@juno.com>
>>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>>Subject: Re: Sunday Times article
>>Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:49:12 -0500 (EST)
>>
>>Actually, the book review I read of Hapworth kinda asked the same
>>question you did about the potential value of Salinger's "hidden"
>>work...judging from the direction he took in Hapworth.
>>
>>What the heck, even if it's crap I want to read it :)
>>
>>Jim
>>
>>"The written word is a power of such magnitude that only pedants 
>would
>>try to reduce it to rules.  Or the French."
>>
>>--F.K.
>>
>>On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 07:49:17 -0800 (PST) Florie Sommers
>><writeflorie@hotmail.com> writes:
>>>Dickinson also wanted her work burned when she died. Actually none 
>of 
>>>her stuff was published during her life time, it all came after she 
>>>was 
>>>gone thats why none of her poems are named. I worry though that 
>>>Salinger 
>>>is just smart enough to burn it before he dies. I want nothing more 
>>>than 
>>>to see all his hidden work published for everyone to love but I 
>don't 
>>>think it will ever happen. Firstly, because of my above stated 
>reason 
>>>and secondly because the people around him protect him to such a 
>>>degree 
>>>that I can see them betraying him even after his death. 
>>>
>>>I also worry that his recluse writing will be disappointing. Because 
>
>>>we 
>>>have such a wonderful little group of work we figure that all his 
>work 
>>>
>>>is wonderful. I'm sure that there is stuff there that he wouldn't  
>>>have 
>>>published even during his publishing years. I worry that if it is 
>all 
>>>released we will be flooded with work that is not his choosing and 
>not 
>>>
>>>his best work. 
>>>
>>>In a blue sky world I would love for him to choose the work that he 
>>>sees 
>>>fit for publication after his death and lock away the remainder. No 
>>>matter how much we love him there is no way that all the writing he 
>>>has 
>>>done since he took off is as good as the work we already have.
>>>
>>>What do you all think?
>>>
>>>Florie   
>>>
>>>
>>>>From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
>>>>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>>>>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>>>>Subject: Re: Sunday Times article
>>>>Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:20:01 +1100
>>>>
>>>>bob pigeon wrote:
>>>>> if he destroyed them that would be so ridiculous
>>>>> kafka's dying wish was that they'd burn all his books something 
>>>like 
>>>that
>>>>> and instead his friend published them
>>>>> hahaha
>>>>
>>>>This has happened to a lot of writers. My thought on the matter is 
>- 
>>>if
>>>>they didn't burn them themselves then possibly they didn't *really* 
>
>>>want
>>>>them burnt at all. This is certainly the case with Katherine 
>>>Mansfield, 
>>>who
>>>>requested that her remaining writings go this way - then her 
>husband 
>>>spent
>>>>the next 30 years or so getting rich off them.
>>>>
>>>>Still ... we have the stories and that's the main thing.
>>>>
>>>>Camille
>>>>verona_beach@geocities.com
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