He says Jerome David Salinger is dead , aged 91, January 27, 2010 in Cornish, New Hampshire. He says the writer, born in New York on 1 January 1919, died of natural causes and that, as stated by his literary agent Phyllis Westberg, his health was excellent until a sudden deterioration after New Year.
Author of a handful of books and thirty short stories, gave birth, among others, the legendary "Holden Caulfield, the boy from a good family and a bit rebellious 'busted by the college that runs away and spends a night in NY, and then sneaks in her parents' house without being discovered, only to greet the "old Phoebe," the wise beloved sister.
says I am always very little information circulating about his private life and literary. He says that through participation in the Normandy landings, he met Hemingway, then a correspondent in Paris, that after reading his stories he said "Jesus! He has an extraordinary talent. " He says that the war had caused him a nervous breakdown, and that he had been hospitalized in a military hospital in Germany.
says that some years later, in 1948, was released one of his finest short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish", where you can buy for the first time the young Saymour Glass, retired military with a screw out of place, so The New Yorker, enthusiastic, has demanded the right of first refusal on all future work.
says that after the success of her first novel, "The Catcher in the Rye", released in 1951, Salinger took refuge in New Hampshire, in a voluntary imprisonment that ended with his death.
says that in 1955 he married a student, Claire Douglas, with whom he has two children, Margaret and Matt, and from whom he separated in 1966.
He says that the last story, "Hapworth 16, 1924, was released in 1965 in the New Yorker, (edition in Italy in a" pirate "published by Eldonejo), and since then nothing: no interviews, no publications or appearances public. Only silence.
People close to his agent would have reported the existence of a safe full of unpublished manuscripts to be published only after death.
says that in 1987, Salinger was able to block, but only temporarily, the release of the unauthorized biography "In Search of JD Salinger, Ian Hamilton, and in 2009 the" fake "sequel" 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye, "written JD from an anonymous California.
says that many have tried, unsuccessfully, to bring to the screen the odd night of Holden Caulfield (Billy Wilder, Harvey Weinstein, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, Tobey Maguire, Jerry Lewis), but only Sean Connery has played a writer inmate in "Finding Forrester", inspired by him (and William Burroughs!).
says that for many years it was thought that Salinger could hide behind the signature of the great "mystery" of American literature, Thomas Pynchon.
He says a dazed and crafty Salinger makes its appearance during a baseball game (his love), but only in the novel "Shoeless Joe" by William Kinsella, published in Italy by a new small publishing house .
says that in 1990, Francesco De Gregori live album titled "Catcher in the Sky," and Frank Sinatra quotes the "Borrower" in the song "The Hill" in 1970. It says that Green Day have written the song "Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?", Guns n Roses and even "The Catcher in the Rye.."
And what about "The Catcher in the Rye"? A masterpiece of Bildungsroman, even defined by the author as "a kind of autobiography," an ode to rebellion and to concerns of who is going to be great.
Released in Italy in a first translation in 1952 under the title "Man's Life" (Ed. Casini), and then discussed with a translation by Einaudi press office of the then Highways Adriana Motta said he did bother with Italo Calvino Note the opening to explain the problems of "untranslatability title, which crippled a poem by Robert Burns, and that the 'catch' is the" catcher "of baseball (which, with glove, mask and armor grab balls that escape the batter), and "rye" is the field of rye that leavens to get the whiskey.
Tale in direct contact made by an irresistible anti-hero, a misfit luxury with which so many young people have identified, "Catcher in the Rye" was immediately accepted worldwide as the stifled cry against conformity and hypocrisy of adult society's rules. He says the book is still disliked by many, has been banned in schools for his bad language ("Goddam," "fuck") and for certain situations "disreputable" (Holden's encounter with the prostitute).
And he says that Mark David Chapman, just after he shot John Lennon on 8 December 1980, he was arrested as he read a copy of the novel, saying he was "inspired" by the young Holden Caulfield.
says that a few years ago the writer Sandro Veronesi and Alessandro Baricco (which the rebel who runs away from school is a school dedicated curiously) have proposed a new translation Einaudi "updated", but did not succeed. It says that the "problem" of translation is not so much slang that the translator has reinvented with surprising results at times, when a translation completely "out of focus" of the English third person "you" (the young Holden tell someone what happened to him recently, but according to rumors, would not be speaking to the general reader, when the shrink, because they have confined to the clinic. The third person singular and plural, in English, it's always "you", but the meaning changes a lot ...) Now
Salinger is dead, even if we are to have so many thought he was immortal. And I have probably to him that I became a writer. We are anxious to leave a wonderful question unanswered: where do they go ducks in winter, when the Central Park pond is frozen? Migrate? Is there anyone that carries it in a warmer place? Vanish? Die or be reborn?
Bah. One says then life ...
"I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central South Park. I was wondering if it Would be frozen over when i got home, and if It Was, Where Did the ducks go? I was wondering Where the ducks Went When the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. Wondered if I Came Some guy in a truck and Took Them away to a zoo or something. Or If They just flew away. "
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