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1 giorno fa · La personale deriva mistica dell’autore si riflette nel sincretismo religioso che permea le pagine di “Franny e Zooey”, in cui la preghiera assomiglia a un mantra, la figura di Gesù è affiancata da quelle dei bodhisattva e degli arhat, e il cristianesimo sfuma nella filosofia zen.
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5 giorni fa · 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 writers.
1 giorno fa · She is a 20-year-old college student during the events of the story who leaves her college to return home and have a mental breakdown. In “Franny,” she has an argument with her boyfriend, and then in “Zooey,” she is back home arguing with Zooey and going in circles. The first part of Franny’s argument is that everyone in college is so ...
2 giorni fa · Salinger published Franny and Zooey in 1961 and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction in 1963. Each book contained two short stories or novellas published in The New Yorker between 1955 and 1959, and were the only stories Salinger had published since Nine Stories.
1 giorno fa · In a manner reminiscent of classics like Salinger’s Franny and Zooey and Spencer’s The Light in the Piazza, Russo forces us to call into question if we can really delineate a fault line between normalcy and lunacy, and whether mystics are really just glorified mental patients or whether mental patients are repressed mystics.
4 giorni fa · Like Franny and Zooey, this book comprises a shorter story plus a novella or short novel. In this instance, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" is the shorter one, at some 22,000 words; while "Seymour, an Introduction" is the longer, some 29,000 words.
4 giorni fa · 'Franny and Zooey' consists of two novellas, 'Franny' and 'Zooey', about the two youngest children of the eccentric, highly intelligent Glass family. 'Franny' is about Franny, the baby of the family and her mental breakdown; 'Zooey' is about her brother Zooey's attempt to snap her out of it.
