J. D. Salinger Libri

"Non ho nessuna voglia di mettermi a raccontare tutta la mia dannata autobiografia e compagnia bella. Vi racconterò soltanto le cose da matti che mi sono capitate verso Natale, prima di ridurmi cosi a terra da dovermene venire qui a grattarmi la pancia. Niente di più di quel che ho raccontato a D.B., con tutto che lui è mio fartello e quel che segue. Sta a Hollywood, lui. Non è poi tanto lontano da questo lurido buco, e viene qui a trovarmi praticamente ogni fine settimana. Mi accompagnerà a casa in macchina quando ci andrò il mese prossimo, chi sa. Ha appena preso una Jaguar. Uno di quei gingilli inglesi che arrivano sui trecento all'ora. Gli è costata uno scherzetto come quattromila sacchi o giù di lì. E' pieno di soldi, adesso. Mica come prima. Era soltanto uno scrittore in piena regola, quando stava a casa".

Dvě psychologicky laděné novely s filozofickým podtextem o sourozencích Glassových. O Seymourovi, nejstarším ze sourozenců, vypráví Buddy, který přijíždí na bratrovu svatbu, jež se nekoná. Druhá novela je improvizovaný esej o smyslu poezie, o psaní a osobnosti spisovatele, který je prokládán a ilustrován historkami a názory rodiny Glassových.

Nine Stories (1953) is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor". (Nine Stories is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories.)The stories are:"A Perfect Day for Bananafish""Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut""Just Before the War with the Eskimos""The Laughing Man""Down at the Dinghy""For Esmé – with Love and Squalor""Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes""De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period""Teddy"

Buddy Glass introduces his older brother and describes the events of Seymour's wedding day

A haunting and deeply personal portrait of family tragedy from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the Rye Buddy Glass is the second-eldest son in the eccentric and enchanting Glass family. He is on leave from the army during World War II, attending the wedding of his eldest brother, Seymour. But the wedding is not a happy one: it is overcast by a sense of strange suspense. Perhaps everyone is aware, on some level, of what is to come. And in the years after the tragedy, Buddy is haunted by memories of Seymour, turning over in his mind everything that came to pass with his deeply complex and unhappy older brother. With painful tenderness and great subtlety, Salinger unfolds a story of family tragedy from the point of view of a character - Buddy - who has long been suspected to be a portrait of the author himself.

The story follows Jerome David Salinger, a young and ambitious writer with lofty aspirations for his career. With a strong desire to establish himself in the literary world, he aims to publish his early stories in The New Yorker, which he views as the ultimate achievement for any American author. His journey reflects the intense pressure and high expectations faced by aspiring writers.

"First published in the New Yorker in the 1950s, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction are two novellas narrated by Buddy Glass, a character often said to be a portrait of Salinger himself. In the first, Buddy has taken leave from the army during World War II to attend the wedding of the eldest Glass brother, Seymour, and an atmosphere of portentous suspense sets the scene for the tragedy that will follow. In the second, Buddy reminisces about Seymour and the novella unfolds into a deep and far-reaching exploration of a complex and sad character which displays all the tenderness and subtlety which distinguish the best of Salinger's writing"--Publisher's website

J.D. Salinger, author of the classic Catcher in the Rye (1951), wrote the stories Franny and Zooey for publication in the New Yorker magazine in 1955 and 1957 respectively. Both stories were part of a series centred around a family of settlers in New York, the Glasses, particularly the children of Les and Bessie Glass, a Jewish-Irish theatrical act. All are brilliant former radio actors. Their eldest child, Seymour, a genius, commits suicide in his thirties. The repercussions to the family of this act provide the unifying theme to the stories. In Franny and Zooey the youngest member of the family, Franny, has a religious and nervous breakdown. She attempts to ward off the meaninglessness of college life by the obsessive repetition of a Jesus prayer. Her brother Zachary (Zooey) rests at nothing in his attempts to restore her sanity. J.D. Salinger wrote the Glass stories, 'It is a long-term project, patently an ambitious one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in ly own methods, locutions and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful.I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill.'