The author writes: Franny came out in The New Yorker</EM< Zooey. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. 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 my 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.
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J.D.塞林格(Jerome David Salinger,1919年1月1日生)出生于纽约的一个犹太富商家庭,他在15岁时就被父亲送到宾夕法尼亚州的一所军事学校。1936年塞林格从军事学校毕业,1937年又被做火腿进口生意的父亲送到波兰学做火腿。塞林格在纽约的时候就开始向杂志投稿,其中大部分都是为了赚钱,但也不乏一些好文章,其中包括了《逮香蕉鱼的最佳日子》。
二战中断了塞林格的写作。1942年塞林格从军,1944年他前往欧洲战场从事反间谍工作。战争令塞林格恐惧,他之后写了多本以战争为题材的书。
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在我看来历史上百分之九十的愤世嫉俗的圣人基本上就跟我们其余的人一样贪得无厌,一样面目可憎。
"他妈的,"他道,"这世界上还是有美妙的东西,我是说美妙的东西。我们都是白痴,才会这样钻牛角尖。不管是什么狗屁事,我们总是,总是,总是忘不了我们那点叫人作呕的、微不足道的自我。"
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