Учебно-методическое пособие по работе с книгой "Девять рассказов" Дж. Д. Сэлинджера. Афанасьева Н.Р - 29 стр.

      Twenty stories published in between 1941 and 1948 appeared in                  Rumors spread from time to time, that Salinger will publish an-
a pirated edition in 1974, "The Complete Uncollected Stories of               other novel, but from late 60's he has successfully avoided publicity.
J.D. Salinger" (2 vols.) Many of them reflect Salinger's own service in       "There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Pub-
the army. Later Salinger adopted Hindu-Buddhist influences. He be-            lishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to
came an ardent devotee of "The Gospels of Sri Ramakrishna", a study           write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure," said Salinger
of Hindu mysticism, which was translated into English by Swami                in 1974 to a New York Times correspondent. However, according to
Nikhilananda and Joseph Campbell.                                             Joyce Maynard, who was close to the author for a long time from the
                                                                              1970s, Salinger still writes, but nobody is allowed to see the work.
       Salinger's first novel, "The Catcher in the Rye", became im-           Ian Hamilton's unauthorized biography of Salinger was rewritten, when
mediately a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and gained a huge in-            the author did not accept extensive quoting of his personal letters. The
ternational success. It sells still some 250 000 copies annually. Salinger    new version, "In Search of J D. Salinger", appeared in 1988. In 1992 a
did not do much to help publicity, and asked that his photograph be not       fire broke out in Salinger's Cornish house, but he managed to flee from
used in connection with the book.                                             the reporters who saw an opportunity to interview him. Since the late
           Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even      80s Salinger has been married to Colleen O'Neill. Maynard's story of
           praise, I happily suspect.)                                        her relationship with Salinger, "At Home in the World", appeared in
                                 (From "Seymour, An Introduction", 1963)      October 1998.

        First reviews of the work were mixed, although most critics con-
sidered it brilliant. The novel took its title from a line by Robert Burns,
in which the protagonist Holden Caulfield misquoting it sees himself as
a "catcher in the rye" who must keep the world's children from falling
off "some crazy cliff". The story is written in a monologue and in lively
slang. It is a study of a troubled adolescent boy. When asked if it was
in any way autobiographical, Mr. Salinger said: "Sort of, I was much
relieved when I finished it. My boyhood was very much the same as
that of the boy in the book, and it was a great relief telling people about
it."
        A 16-year old restless Caulfield runs away from school during
his Christmas break to New York to find himself and lose his virginity.
He spends an evening going to nightclubs, and meets next day an old
girlfriend. After getting drunk he sneaks home. He meets his sister to
tell her that he is leaving home and has a nervous breakdown. The hu-
mor of the novel places it in the tradition of Mark Twain's classical
works, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer", but its worldview is more disillusioned.
        Holden describes everything as "phony", is constantly in search
of sincerity and represented the early hero of adolescent angst.

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