A Book a Day: JD Salinger: Complete Narrative

Translation: several

Valuation: essential

Sorry for the omission of a possible question. I don’t know if the box that Alianza has on the market could be called that, when after a few years after the disappearance of the American genius, not much time passes without speculation about the possibility that there is literary production that he wrote in the extensive period during the who lived retired from any public or editorial activity. The unconditional ones of him are in a permanent wait and we find no other consolation than rereadings, and what better and more comfortable than accessing everything he published in one go.

Because the clear and blunt instructions continue to be strictly followed. His four books continue to be published regularly without allowing prologues, epilogues, introductory texts or mere presentations. The work of the writer, whether novel or short stories, and with that you have to manage while any anniversaries. Of course, all of his work is reviewed in this blog, along with some texts that refer to its author and, you will forgive me if this fits, since more than a review it is a hook, but the validity of the writer’s texts seems to me to be absolute and even more visible than ever in these strange times that combine globality and uncontrolled public exposure (promulgated without decorum from the RRSS) with withdrawal and exacerbated individuality.

Salinger dealt with all of this in a work that is concise and sometimes cryptic and disjointed, but its joint vision (here possible for an obvious practical issue) allows you to enjoy it. So allow me the license of a tenacious re-recommendation, of course there will be those who have not yet enjoyed the brief journey of Holden Caufield expelled from his school (I envy being able to discover that from scratch), but immerse yourself in the subtle plot around the Glass family that is combined in their stories, not only to understand how individual and collective conflicts – suicide, anguish, depression – were treated with such subtlety and precision that it influences an entire literary movement (from Pynchon to Foster Wallace) and integrates a corpus colossal literary, present, modern and, although we are already resigned to the fact that it can be limited to these four works (and Complete narrative be the title that defines it), probably definitive.