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Bezig met laden... Franny and Zooey (origineel 1961; editie 1991)door J. D. Salinger
Informatie over het werkFranny en Zooey door J. D. Salinger (1961)
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#718 in our old book database. Not rated. this book produced such a different reaction from the first time I read it, 50-60 years ago. Not only did I not like it, I was offended by much of it. And itr also was so boring with so many tedious and also body-related details. Franny was also desperately in need of psychiatric help, but was frequently belittled for her thoughts and feelings. She no doubt was attempting to achieve perfection, as aare many. The life of the family in their very overcrowded apartment due to their hoarding was desperately in need of help, but that would have felt like to defeat to many of them. The facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do. I expected to dislike this. "Franny," the short story that proceeds the novella "Zooey" mostly reinforced that expectation and made me think I would be in for a long, slogging reading for such a short book. But it turned out to be a pretty interesting and non-traditional story about a family, and needless to say, there is a lot of flair in Salinger's prose. First off, Zooey is a guy. I went into the story thinking it would be about two female friends, two sisters, etc. But Franny and Zooey are actually brother and sister, the youngest of the Glass kids (a family Salinger apparently wrote about in some of his other works). They were all famous as kids for regularly appearing on a quiz show. They were basically over-educated to the exclusion of other things. The story in "Franny" is picked up by the "Zooey" part. While "Franny" provides important backstory, it's not until reading "Zooey" that you see it fitting into a wider story. While this is one of the books this year that I think I'll be most glad I read, there are definitely a couple of points that give me pause: 1. There is so much mansplaining in this book. First Lane, then Buddy kinda, then Zooey. In fact, they even define the book's different parts. 2. A 25-year-old man talking down to his mother, calling her fatty, living in her house. Maybe it's time to get a damn job, huh, buddy? 3. A lot of ego for people who call the ego of others "lousy." All in all though, I was pretty amused by this family and the consequences they are dealing with due to their quiz-show background. I would definitely seek out Salinger's other stories about them. Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Glass Family (2) Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Keltainen kirjasto (42) A tot vent (152) Is opgenomen inBevatZooey door J.D. Salinger Bestudeerd inRereadings door Anne Fadiman Heeft als studiegids voor studentenPrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
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HTML:"Perhaps the best book by the foremost stylist of his generation" (New York Times), J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey collects two works of fiction about the Glass family originally published in The New Yorker. "Everything everybody does is so??I don't know??not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and??sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way." A novel in two halves, Franny and Zooey brilliantly captures the emotional strains and traumas of entering adulthood. It is a gleaming example of the wit, precision, and poignancy that have made J. D. Salinger one of America's most beloved Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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