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Cargando... Levantad, Carpinteros, LA Viga Del Tejado/Seymour: Una Introduccion/ (1963)por J. D. Salinger
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First story great. Second story: wtf! ( ) Two stories. The first (Roofbeams) struck me as a masterclass in narrative and characterization. An extended interaction between a small set of people, it's almost impossibly vivid; it reminds me of Raymond Carver, without the minimalism. What actually happens is not so important (although a mystery is solved by the end). It's the kind of story I want to read again just to study the technique. Needless to say, I also enjoyed it immensely as a scene. The second (Seymour), by contrast, seemed pointless and self-indulgent. Nothing important is revealed, and the narrator's (apparently) amphetamine-fueled, self-conscious logorrhea is irritating and then exhausting. It's all too typical for the writer/narrator to interrupt a sentence with an extended parenthetical aside about what led him to write the sentence and how he feels about the sentence and why he's going to write the sentence despite his misgivings about how it might be interpreted. This gets old in a hurry. I found it a struggle to get through. If it weren't too pat an assumption based on too little data, I'd say Salinger had run out of gas ("Seymour" was his last published story before "Hapworth 16, 1924," which by most accounts was even worse). If the Salinger heirs ever get over their own neuroses and publish the last several decades of their father's work, we might get to test that out. But I'm not holding my breath. Pertenece a las seriesGlass Family (3) Pertenece a las series editorialesLiterair paspoort (45) Nuovi coralli [Einaudi] (382)
Este volumen recoge dos relatos extensos que se cuentan entre los mas brillantes de Salinger. En ambos aparece la figura fascinante de Seymour, en un caso el dia de su boda y en el otro con motivo de los complejos sentimientos que despierta entre sus allegados. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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