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“Catcher in the Rye” author J.D. Salinger, who disappeared and stayed that way after becoming known as the seminal author of adolescent angst and alienation in the 1950s and early ’60s, has died at age 91.
You could almost argue that Salinger played an unwitting, tangential and nonsensical part in the murder of John Lennon. You can’t argue that and actually mean it, of course, because it’s fundamentally absurd. But as John Guare wrote in Six Degres of Separation, “Catcher” proved to be a seminal tome for more than one malignant malcontent.
Howard Zinn died yesterday…
..the J.D. Salinger of historians.
R.I.P. J.D. Salinger.
I’m curious as to how Catcher would read to me now. My guess is that it’s very age dependent. When you’re 17, you read Catcher, and then when you’re 21, you read On The Road. To read either as a 30 year old would likely be masochistic.
I think people read too deeply into Catcher, assuming its only value is that of some sort of rant against society. But it’s actually really, really funny. You can dismiss Holden’s ideas as teenage nonsense and still enjoy the book for its comedic value alone.
I’m sorry but I think it’s a bit strange the way our culture automatically reveres these artists who stop working and go into hiding. There’s something to be said a (public) prolific output.
This is in no way a slight against Salinger’s actual work which I adore for the most part.
But we’ll find out if he has, in fact, continued to write all these years.
by the way. how long before before the heirs of Salinger cave in and allow Catcher to be filmed? Emile Hirsh and his hunting cap eagerly await.
Hopefully his heirs will continue to respect his desire for privacy. Doubtful though, I’m sure multiple unpublished novels will start seeing print very soon.
“respect his desire for privacy?” He’s dead.
Does anyone remember this photo:
http://citypaper.net/blogs/criticalmass/files/2009/01/9c1aa64a.jpg
This was taken sometime in 1989/90. Some NY Post photographers (I think) ambushed him coming out of store in his hometown.
Ang Lee wanted to make it years ago. A great fit.
Terrence Malick wanted to make it, too. I’d take him over Ang Lee after the Taking Woodstock debacle.
Vonnegut, Mailer, Clarke, Terkel, Zinn, Salinger. Rough few years for post-war authors. At least we still have Bradbury and Hillerman.
HIllerman – DEAD
It’s weird how people die when they get old.
Hillerman?
Tony Hillerman.
Check that.
“You can’t argue that and actually mean it, of course, because it’s fundamentally absurd.”
Well, he was a spook in the proto-CIA, and in the area of intelligence, so….
http://www.djmick.co.uk/showbiz/top-10-celebrity-death-conspiracy-theories/
Plus, there was a similar situation with Sirhan Sirhan.
If Shia Labeouf inches within a country mile of playing Holden Caulfield I’ll go Mark Chapman on his ass.
Oh, and Miramaxe is dead. http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/16210/miramax-films-closes-down
Wall Street 2 teaser.
http://www.darkhorizons.com/trailers/
While I liked Catcher in the Rye, it didn’t make the impact on me like it did on many others. It was Nine Stories that made me see what all the fuss was about. A friend of mine quoted Norman Mailer’s critique of Salinger – that he had a mind that never left prep school. I think Nine Stories, particularly “Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut,” proves him wrong.
A Catcher in the Rye movie? Too bad K-stew is too old to play Phoebe Caulfield. She’s one of my favorite literary characters of all time. My daughter is named after her.
Someone should give Winona Ryder a call. See if she’s okay.
i always hoped that when salinger went it would be at the hand of some disenfranchised kid with a .38 in one pocket and a dog-eared copy of ‘catcher…’ in the other…… it just would have been so right…..
“To read either as a 30 year old would likely be masochistic.”
It’s still an incredibly well-written book. You don’t relate to it in the same way, but you also have insight into it that you didn’t have at the time.
My thought on this was, it’s amazing that ‘Catcher in the Rye’ is the only book that everybody was forced to read in school that nobody hates.
When the word leaks out about what he’s been doing all these years it’s going to blow some minds. Quietly, without fanfare, but for huge bucks, he was doing uncredited rewrites on all of the Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay films, except “Bad Boys II.”
Vonnegut got that gig.
On his desk at the time of his death was his new draft of “National Treasure IV.”
Man oh man…
If it could actually be proven that Vonnegut did write Bad Boys 2 I would have killed him myself 3 years ago.
I’m only half-kidding about this.
I rarely make these sort of exaggerated claims but quite possibly:
Worst. Movie. Ever.
Kane: So you liked Breakfast of Champions movie?
Gordon27,
Plenty of people I know hate Catcher in the Rye.
As for a book that everyone was forced to read, but no one hates, try something along the lines of To Kill A Mockingbird. I don’t think I’ve encountered one person yet who has read that book and hated it. They could be out there though.
I think Robert Redford would do a good job making a movie out of The Catcher in the Rye. I see parallels between that and Ordinary People, which I think is one of the best films on adolescence. As far as I’m concerned, TCITR was about an adolescent who has to learn to accept the death of his younger brother before he can move on in his life. I felt both Holden Caulfield and Conrad Jarrett felt responsible for their sibling’s death. I mean, that was why Holden wanted to be a catcher in the rye–to save youngsters from falling to their doom because he missed his chanceto do itj for Allie I first read TCITR during my sophomore year in high school and years later after I graduated from college. When you look at it from a “death in the family” perspective, it held up.
“As for a book that everyone was forced to read, but no one hates, try something along the lines of To Kill A Mockingbird.”
Ah, but there are plenty of schools (like mine) where they aren’t forced to read it. Also, I’ve known quite a few people who found that story (which I, personally, love) to be racially condescending in a way I can’t quite defend.
J.D. Salinger—-> May allah bless you
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