60 years later - coming through the rye
Pocketböcker. Windupbird Publishing Ltd. 2009. 277 sidor.
60 Years Later is a work of speculative fiction featuring J.D. Salinger himself
as the main character. The theme is a probing psychological exploration of
an authors relationship and responsibility to his characters: specifically, J.D.
Salinger's relationship to Holden Caulfield.
In the novel a bitter and determined J.D. Sainger re-animates Holden Caulfield,
the novel's Mr. C, in order to finally kill him off and gain back his own unfinished
individuality and life, which his character, Caulfield, has taken from him -- by
sending him into a defended solitude -- by Holdens international status as
a cult figure, despite his fictional status. The figure of the decrepit and aged
(76) Mr. C. in 60 Years Later is -- while not minimal -- secondary to the agonies,
torments, self-arguments and machinations of J.D. Salinger himself. Mr.
C. mistily and imperfectly recalls -- and resolves -- incidents from the story,
Catcher in the Rye as the author/character, J.D. Salinger, draws Mr. C closer
and closer to him in order to finish him off. At the climax of the 60 years later,
Salinger at last meets his own character and --finally -- falls in love with his
own creation, freeing both Holden Caulfield and, more importantly, himself,
from the restrictions his own bitterness at being a 2nd banana in his own life
have cost him.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9789185869541
- Titel
- 60 years later - coming through the rye
- Författare
- John David California - Fredrik Colting
- Förlag
- Windupbird Publishing Ltd
- Utgivningsår
- 2009
- Omfång
- 277 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 130 x 198 mm Ryggbredd 20 mm
- Vikt
- 150 g
- Språk
- English