Дж. Д. Сэлинджер (р. 1919) — великий затворник американской литературы, чьи книги уже полвека будоражат умы читателей всего мира. В данном томе собран основной корпус его работ в новых переводах. Роман «Ловец на хлебном поле», «Девять рассказов» и повести о Глассах можно смело считать духовным завещанием XX века грядущим столетиям.
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Р. Райт-Ковалева. Предисловие (ко второму изданию), стр. 3-10 Д. Д. Сэлинджер. Над пропастью во ржи (роман, перевод Р. Райт-Ковалёвой), стр. 11-166 Дж. Д. Сэлинджер. Выше стропила, плотники (повесть, перевод Р. Райт-Ковалёвой), стр. 167-219 Дж. Д. Сэлинджер. Хорошо ловится рыбка-бананка (рассказ, перевод Р. Райт-Ковалёвой), стр. 220-231 Дж. Д. Сэлинджер. Человек, который смеялся (рассказ, перевод Р. Райт-Ковалёвой), стр. 232-244 Дж. Д. Сэлинджер. Голубой период де Домье-Смита (рассказ, перевод Р. Райт-Ковалёвой), стр. 245-269 Дж. Д. Сэлинджер. Лапа-растяпа (рассказ, перевод Р. Райт-Ковалёвой), стр. 270-284
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Works, most notably novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), of American writer Jerome David Salinger often concern troubled, sensitive adolescents.
People well know this author for his reclusive nature. He published his last original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980. Reared in city of New York, Salinger began short stories in secondary school and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. In 1948, he published the critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker, his subsequent home magazine. He released an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield especially influenced adolescent readers. Widely read and controversial, sells a quarter-million copies a year.
The success led to public attention and scrutiny: reclusive, he published new work less frequently. He followed with a short story collection, Nine Stories (1953), of a novella and a short story, Franny and Zooey (1961), and a collection of two novellas, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963). His last published work, a novella entitled "Hapworth 16, 1924", appeared in The New Yorker on June 19, 1965.
Afterward, Salinger struggled with unwanted attention, including a legal battle in the 1980s with biographer Ian Hamilton. In the late 1990s, Joyce Maynard, a close ex-lover, and Margaret Salinger, his daughter, wrote and released his memoirs. In 1996, a small publisher announced a deal with Salinger to publish "Hapworth 16, 1924" in book form, but the ensuing publicity indefinitely delayed the release.
Another writer used one of his characters, resulting in copyright infringement; he filed a lawsuit against this writer and afterward made headlines around the globe in June 2009. Salinger died of natural causes at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire.