Franny and Zooey & Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger
I love me some Salinger. I really do. Despite all the backlash, Salinger was a good writer before he became an emo icon. His morose literary progeny are people I would bitchslap in real life, but he renders them palatable and even sympathetic by giving them an air of tragedy. His unique New York (now say that three times fast) exists only in his works, and by extension, The Royal Tenenbaums. There is a lot of criticism on Salinger’s supposed immaturity and manipulative antics because his characters are never quite real; they’re always so precocious, so smarmy, not understanding the gift of their genius or good fortune. But they are also humanistic because Salinger strikes at a common chord: vanity. He and his characters never shied from a certain seflishness we can all relate to, whether willingly or not. Salinger does not illuminate humanity in its best light, but it is a real one.
Favorite Stories:
Franny
The Laughing Man
Teddy
Favorite Stories:
Franny
The Laughing Man
Teddy
2 comments:
Your writing style is sophisticated without bordering on pretension.
I think me likes.
There are some 10 billion other zhangs in the world...am I supposed to randomly guess?
But it's sad that our brothers don't get along better. One day they will realize they are complete and utter twins.
'til the day of Zhang and Zhang.
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