crying and frying

[David Casseres]

>> I'm planning a seminar next term on death, mourning and suicide in
>> literature.  Someone mentioned Werther--any other suggestions?  I
>> thought maybe Hamlet and Gerald's Party, inter alia. I'm not limited by
>> genre, period or geography.  Diana 

to which Joe Varo sez

>Catcher in the Rye?

Good suggestion.

>If I recall, some other Salinger stuff deals with these topics also.

A Good Day for Bananafish is a suicide story.

Another possibility, going farther afield, is Oedipus at Colonnos.  And 
then there's all sorts of death in Faulkner.  A passage in one of the 
novels where one character takes revenge on another by ambushing and 
murdering him, and Faulkner sez that when you do that you discover to 
your dissatisfaction that you have killed a dead man.

And there's amazing writing about death in Kesey's Sometimes a Great 
Notion....



Cheers,
David