[情報] Farewell, J. D. Salinger
Farewell, J. D. Salinger
By GREGORY COWLES
JANUARY 28, 2010, 2:24 PM
http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/farewell-jd-salinger
A lot of authors seem frozen in time, stuck forever at the age they were
when they first entered the public’s consciousness. That was even truer
of J. D. Salinger than most — because he stopped publishing after 1965,
because he fiercely guarded his privacy, because he remained so closely
identified with the perpetual adolescent Holden Caulfield and the arrested
adolescent Seymour Glass — and so the news of Salinger’s death today was
almost less shocking than the fact that he was 91 years old when he died.
There will no doubt be a lot of tributes and appreciations to Salinger in
the coming days — a notion that would surely have driven Salinger himself
crazy. Here’s Holden, cranky as ever:
Boy, when you’re dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do
die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something.
Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting
a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap.
Who wants flowers when you’re dead? Nobody.
But I’d rather remember Salinger (and Holden Caulfield) with the last words
to “Catcher in the Rye,” words that signaled Salinger’s future seclusion
even as they allowed for the joy and the pain of human connection:
It’s funny. Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing
everybody.
We’ve missed J. D. Salinger for a long time, but now we can bid him farewell
and wish him peace.
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