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tradition of the quest
The atmosphere conjured up by J.D. Salinger inevitably recalls the era of nineteenth-century romanticism; then, too, the promise of utopia disappeared in blood, leaving the younger generation disillusioned and ready to escape into the personal search for truth and beauty. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, Arthur Heiserman, Byron romantic poet, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ihab Hassan, J.D. Salinger, Jack Skow, James ameron, James Fenimore Cooper, Janet Malcolm, John Lennon murder, Kenneth Slawenski, Lord Byron greece, Mel Gibson, Naomi Klein, Paul Levine, Slavoj Zizek, Stephen J. Whitfield, Taxi Driver movie, William Weigand
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a seymour misunderstood: hints of envy and terror
The ambiguity was strongest about Seymour, who is regarded by the surviving Glasses as something of a Holy Man. But there are hints in Franny and Zooey that coexistence with a saint, living or dead, can have its drawbacks and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, Calvancati Dead of Night, Franz Kafka, Henry Grunwald, Ihab Hassan, J.D. Salinger, J.D. Salinger Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger Seymour: An Introduction, Jack Skow, Janet Malcolm, John Updike, Kenneth Slawenski, Mary McCarthy, Maxwell Geismar, michael redgrave, Paul Levine, Seymour Glass J.D. Salinger, William Weigand
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view from the cliff
So long and thanks for all the fish.Even if it is hard to catch the imagery of fish frozen in ice as anything positive and constructive, a kind of purgatory state that is not fully human, but potentially on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, Carl Strauch, George Steiner, Henry Grunwald, Ihab Hassan, J.D. Salinger, Jack Skow, James Bryan, Josephine Jacobsen, Kenneth Slawenski, Paul Levine, Peter Martin, Peter Martin The Landsmen, seymour krim, Slawenski, Warren French, William Weigand
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the huck of it: the enviable goddam silences
Like Huck Finn, to whom Holden Caulfield is constantly compared, the hero of The Catcher in the Rye is usually described as a rebel, either against the materialism and ugliness of “our society” or against the realities of the adult … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, Anatole Grunwald, Carl Strauch, Claire Douglas, Eloise Perry hazard, Ernest Heingway, George Steiner, Henry Grunwald, Huckleberry Finn, Ihab Hassan, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Jack Skow, James Bryan, John Aldridge, Mark Twain, Maxwell Geismer, Peter Martin The Landsmen, Sumitra Panikar, Warren French
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