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follow HeisermanMillerand Rosen in examining the modern world for
a “sickness of the mind” and “the death of belief.”
Shoeless Joe goes beyond
Catcher
howeverin that it offers a possible cure for this modern illness.
Although Shoeless Joe is a successful novel and work of art in its own
rightit makes the most sense when read in the context of
Catcher in the Rye.
Kinsella’s book isat least in partan attempt to interpretrespond toand
even redeem Salinger’s most famous work by afrming and rewarding the
kind of idealism exemplifed by Holden. Beliefs and desiresfor both Holden
and Rayform an antithetical and paradoxical relationship with harsh reality.
Te paradox is created in large measure as the characters recognize their own
complicity in the corrupt world. Using this idea of complicity as a partial basis
for his argumentJohn Seelye suggests that
Catcher “provided an American
counterpart to European existential texts like Sartre’s Nausea and Camus’s
Te Stranger” (24). Jack Salzmanhoweverbelieves that there is a distinct dif-
ference between Catcher and other more strictly existentialist texts: “Salinger’s
strength as a writer is not his appreciation of life’s absurdities and ultimate
paradox; ratherit is his
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