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Salinger drew from Sherwood Anderson, Isak Dinesen, F. Scott Fitzgerald and especially Ring Lardner, whose wise-guy voice you hear chiming in the snappy banalities and sometimes desperate patter spoken by Salinger's characters, a tone that found its way years later into the neurotic chatter of Woody Allen's New Yorkers. But Salinger bent it all into something new, a tone that drew from the secular and the religious, the worldly and the otherworldly, the ecstatic and the inconsolable. It's customary to assume that the seven Glass children - the Glass family, an intricate hybrid of showbiz and spirituality...
This much is wonderful: Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer's Kitchen Stories, in which he imagines an observer named Folke (Tomas Norstrom) perched in a sort of tennis umpire's chair, watching an old man named Isak (Joachim Calmeyer) doing his modest culinary chores. They're not allowed to talk; it would ruin the experiment's purity. But, of course, they do, these two lonesome men leading minimalist lives in the snow-shrouded countryside...
...most explosive action in the film--its equivalent of a car chase--comes when Folke moves a salt cellar and Isak has trouble finding it. Yet Hamer reveals a surprising richness in these lives. Isak's beloved workhorse is dying, and his neighbor, his only friend, grows increasingly jealous of Folke's presence. As for Folke, living in a cramped trailer parked outside, wearing a suit and tie in his observer's chair, his life is constrained. As far as we know, his only human contact is an aunt who sends him food parcels...
...Internet provide endless opportunities for free "cut-and-paste" material. In one year, my publication caught three writers who had lifted--almost directly--Internet information for use in their stories. One rather well-known writer had the audacity to appropriate an exquisite passage from the works of Isak Dinesen and weave it into his own story--unattributed, of course. Plagiarism never fails to induce a feeling of shock and deep disappointment. Fellow writers, editors and teachers, please continue to preach the word: plagiarism is wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong! JACKSON MAHANEY Lebanon...
...others--presents Judith Thurman, author of Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Knopf; 592 pages; $30), with both an embarrassment of riches and a Sisyphean task. Despite working on this book for nine years, Thurman, who won a National Book Award in 1983 for her biography of Isak Dinesen (and has been nominated again for this book), acknowledges that Colette remains an elusive figure, an author who hid herself in plain sight...