Re: Seymour's Suicide -- Bruce...
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@hotpop.com)
Sun, 10 Oct 1999 13:40:16 +1000
Jim wrote:
> Sometimes I think Salinger spent the majority of his career as a writer
> essentially telling the same story over and over again, with different
> variations and from slightly different angles. And, forgive me, but I
think
> For Esme was the one place where he finally got it right...
There are theories stating that this is true for virtually *every* writer
... it's said that all a writer need do is find Their story and they are
set up for life (I don't mean this in the Barbara Cartland sense, by the
way (: ) I've thought about this and found it generally very true - think
of Tennesee Williams, even James Joyce. I don't think it's necessarily a
bad thing, either. I'm interested that you see For Esme as the greatest
refination of his Story though. How exactly did you arrive at that
conclusion?
And reading `Nine Stories' again isn't such a bad fate ... I paused my
ploughing through Hapworth for that very purpose this last week. I've gotta
go back and watch `My Foolish Heart' in relation to `Uncle Wiggily in
Conneticut' once more.
Camille
verona_beach@hotpop.com
Camille
verona_beach@hotpop.com