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Wyżej podnieście strop, cieśle/ Seymour: wprowadzenie

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Dwa opowiadania połączone postacią Seymoura – najstarszego z rodzeństwa Glassów, znanych z innych utworów Salingera, m.in. Franny i Zooey.
"Wyżej podnieście strop, cieśle"
Buddy Glass, narrator opowiadania, bierze urlop, by uczestniczyć w ceremonii ślubnej brata – Seymoura. Podróż gości weselnych niespodziewanie się wydłuża, co daje Salingerowi okazję do wnikliwej analizy osobowości opisywanych przez Buddy’ego postaci, ale także do zagłębienia się w psychikę narratora, który od zawsze żył w cieniu wybitnego brata.
"Seymour: wstęp"
Buddy, po samobójczej śmierci brata, Seymoura, w 1948 roku, próbuje opisać całe spektrum jego zainteresowań, od fascynacji buddyzmem, przez filozofię zen, po haiku – japońskie krótkie formy poetyckie.
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240 pages, Hardcover

First published November 19, 1955

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J.D. Salinger

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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.

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