The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955,
and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early,
critical entries in a narrative series I''m doing about a family of
settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a
long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a
real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I''ll bog down,
perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and
mannerisms. On the whole, though, I''m very hopeful. I love working
on these Glass stories, I''ve been waiting for them most of my life,
and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them
with due care and all-available skill.
關於作者:
J.D. Salinger was born in New York in 1919. His first story was
published in 1940 and he wrote a further twenty short stories
before he ''found his subject'' with the short novel The Catcher in
the Rye 1951. The book has enormous popular success, particularly
with students. It was followed by a collection of short stories,
For Esme, With Love and Squalor, which encapsulated many of the
themes later to be found in Salinger''s linked series of works about
the Glass Family.