《麥田裏的守望者》J.D.塞林格/Rebel in the Rye (2017)

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《麥田裏的守望者》J.D.塞林格/Rebel in the Rye (2017)簡介

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[https://youtu.be/1qifBaXUPWE?si=1r33vXHiqTFn0VbA His girl-friend Oona O'Neill, 18YO, married 66-YO Charlie Chaplan while he served in WW2 Germany.

Rebel in the Rye (2017)

Director: Danny Strong
Based on: J.D. Salinger: A Life by Kenneth Slawenski
Cast:
- Nicholas Hoult as J.D. Salinger
- Zoey Deutch as Oona O'Neill
- Kevin Spacey as Whit Burnett
- Sarah Paulson as Dorothy Olding
- Brian d'Arcy James, Victor Garber, Hope Davis, Lucy Boynton
Synopsis: This biographical drama delves into Salinger's formative years, his experiences during World War II, and the creation of his iconic novel. It portrays his struggles with fame and his eventual retreat from public life.

塞林格 when that voice overwhelms the story it becomes an expression more of your ego

TJKCB

2025-05-29 21:53

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can I do for you Mr salinger well I I wanted to ask about what you
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talked about in class you know my voice overwhelming the story i always thought my voice is what defines me as a writer
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absolutely your voice is what makes your story unique
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but when that voice overwhelms the story as it did in your admissions essay then
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it becomes an expression more of your ego than of the emotional experience of
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the reader does that make sense
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kind of kind

what's the JD stand for it's juvenile delinquent

don't write that and I want those rewrites before next week and do not get used to the idea of

me staying for each class my dinner plans canled oh it's your first rejection letter you

have to get that frame so what do I do now you're a writer what do you think you do now write another story yes and

then write another one after that and then another one after

that and then another one after that okay and then another one after

that perhaps my dreams of literary triumph

were the delusions of an egotistical and overly ambitious boy who should have listened when he was offered the chance

to be the king of the bacon i could have been a king

went I don't know if I'm cut out for this

yeah maybe you're not you don't think I am

well let me ask you a question why do you want to do this publish

no be a writer why do you want to

write because I I get angry about a lot of things and

when I'm writing I feel like I'm doing something about it like I'm finally getting to speak my mind you see Jerry

this is what you need to be doing in your writing explore what it is that makes you angry and then put that into a story

no no no but here's the catch you still may never publish never

nope you may spend the rest of your life being rejected and now you have to ask

yourself a question are you willing to devote your life to telling

stories knowing that you may get nothing in

return and if the answer to that question is no well then you should go

out there and find yourself something else to do with your life because you are not a true

writer good day thank you very much

no no no no take your rejections with

[Applause]

you

would you look at this place it's beautiful you You'll find something else

you like to do Sunny we'll see and it'll be something you can actually make a buck at try not to worry about anything

this week dear it's a vacation you should relax

your sister didn't drive all the way up here to watch you write in a lobby for 5 days now put that away and come with us

for a stroll i will in in 1 hour i'm almost done okay what makes you think you have anything to say to people

grow up

oh Jerry you hang back for a minute

now that you have made a true commitment to your craft I think it's time

time for what for you to be

published in

This is the first damn story I gave you oh I loved it right away i just had to be sure you were a real writer before I

published it so this is your first check as a real

writer thank you thank you so much pathetic thing

I've ever seen [Music]

all right that's my queue going in

una so lovely to see you again Carol Ble i'm Bllythe great if you don't mind I'm

going to give the most beautiful girl in the world to twirl all right

[Music]

i read your piece and story you read a story i read everything

what did you think i thought it was

marvelous simply marvelous thank you you're without a doubt the

most special girl I've ever seen and you're very handsome jerome David

Salinger [Music]

what do you think i love it yeah how How long have you lived here just a few months but I don't think I'll be here

much longer why where are you going to go hollywood if I want to get into pictures

that's the place to be right yeah no I I used to want to be an actor

really but I hate Hollywood it's a bunch of Jaguar driving jerks making crap for knuckleheads that can't read

you're funny and you're so talented i love talent

don't go to California why i I think it's better if you stay here stay here and do theater

have you asked your dad to put you in any of his place

why we don't speak we don't speak very often

i'm sorry i didn't All right no I haven't seen him since I was a little girl

actually you know I don't know why he doesn't love

me i never did anything

wrong my My dad doesn't love me either

i I should probably go no Jerry you don't have to if I if I get back to my writing I could get a lot done tonight

okay um do you want to go dancing Friday yes yes yes i'd love to great me too okay

good okay

that's the thing about girls every time they do something pretty you fall half in love with

them and then you never know where the hell you are

jerry Jerry Jerry hang in there my love i know it can be a slog but you've got to stick out these dry spells everyone

loves the writing i get terrific feedback every time I submit you that's terrific but I haven't had a story

published in eight months well have you thought about writing something with a little more pop to it more post than New Yorker oh I hate the post it's a bunch

of sentimental crap i know i want to be a New Yorker writer and you will be but it's never easy my love there's no harm

in dumbing it down once in a while we just got to get you published again publishing is everything no I don't even

know what I should write about oh

Jerry first of all you need to relax you're not going to do better work being so

stressed take that pretty girlfriend of yours on a date have some

fun how's it going with her

hey Pearl i'm sorry Jerry but Una isn't here she left for the Hamptons this

morning she did what we had a date you know Una

yeah okay thanks

[Music] maybe I'm just not capable of experiencing happiness like the father

that works at a lousy job and has a pretty wife and a bunch of stupid

kids maybe I didn't lose my mind at

all maybe I never had it in the first place

you should get out of here kid

celebrate what i have some exciting news the New Yorker read Slight Rebellion off

Madison and they want to publish it

the New Yorker yes they love your Holden Caulfield character they feel he's completely original i'm so happy for you

Jerry new Yorker i can't believe it well believe it my love to

publishing it really is

everything now they have a couple of notes that they want you to address

notes yes all writers have to go through this with every magazine and The New Yorker has more notes than most they

want all their stories to have a New Yorker signature to them

what if I don't want to do the notes

they told me there are problems with the story should I tell you

sure sure okay tell them I have problems first off they think Holden's drinking

comes out of nowhere they want it to be clearer he's an alcoholic no he's not an

alcoholic he's He's just getting drunk because he's depressed about the girl well they think that's unclear i don't I

think that's perfectly clear well maybe you can make a slight adjustment so it's not confusing for

some people also they think it would be nice if in the end Holden and Sally got back

together they specifically said "We don't need to see it we just want the reader to have a sense that they'll end

up together." But they don't end up together that's not what happens why not because people don't end up together it usually doesn't work out okay I know in

every goddamn story in every goddamn magazine the couple always falls in love with a stupid kiss to make us feel all warm and fuzzy and full of Christmas

cheer but that's not what happens in real life someone always gets their heart broken and has a hard time getting over it

sometimes they drink because they're upset even though they're not

alcoholics i just want my writing to be truthful that's all

so what would you like me to tell them tell them I'm very open to notes but

Holden's not an alcoholic and they don't end up together those are the only notes jerry you tell him I won't make those

changes

[Music] you're so [Music]

talented givea a little twirl

[Music] so get this i told Una about The New Yorker and we've already been out three

times to the New Yorker the New Yorker

did they have any notes who the New Yorker did they have any notes

on the story no

well I'm not surprised they loved it that Holden character is fantastic it's exactly what I've been telling you about

digging deeper yeah I I felt it when I was writing him it just flowed out of me i want to keep writing stories about him

you

should there you okay there boss

well between you and me things aren't great at story money is tight i mean Martha watches the

finances and me apparently I'm still spending too much money you'll have to shut it down no no we'll

be all right for now but it's been tough on us

i got an eye i can spot talent coming a mile

away shoyan Chver Codwell I discovered them all of course it would be nice if

somebody discovered me hey come on you've been published i not only discovered them i shaped them i

challenged them this is

me you should continue to write about Holden but not as a short story

well hang on wait wait wait wait what do you mean

i think Holden Caulfield is a novel no no i I couldn't write a whole

novel i'm a dash man not a miler you only say that because you're

lazy holden Cfield deserves an entire book all on

his own the novel is a lot of words it's

just more words imagine the book that you would want to

read and then go write it

hey mom what's wrong mom hey what is

What happened we interrupt this broadcast to bring you this important bulletin from

the United Press we have witnessed this morning the attack of Pearl Harbor and the severe bombing of Pearl Harbor by

army planes undoubtedly Japanese it's no

joke it's a real war

i don't care what you say i'm sending you socks every week and you had better wear them please you'll embarrass me

they're going to supply everything I need everyone can I have your attention please as you all know tomorrow morning

our son Jerry is going off to war perhaps this will turn him into the man

I know he's destined to become and I would like to propose a toast to

the best student I've ever had to Jerry a wonderful writer an inspiration and a

great friend to Jerry jerry

this may not be the best timing but I have some bad news really what

the New Yorker isn't going to run the holding Cfield story why not they think it's too frivolous

now that we've entered the war i'm sorry Jerry

it's fine

promise you'll wait for me

i promise really

of course Jerry

well she is an actress hey hey mark my words i will marry that

girl well it's a good thing her father's a comedy writer

anyway how is it everything at the home front with you you uh good with Martha chew in your ear everything at my home

is fine because what you'll learn about having a wife is that occasionally she just needs to yell to feel better

oh and by the way I'm awfully sorry about the New Yorker

how'd you know about that oh please they canned the Cfield story because you wouldn't take any of their notes you

know you cannot be a pain in the ass until you're a success huh

well the hell with the New Yorker you know what i'll put it in an anthology with other short no no don't do that don't do that don't do that to Holden

Caulfield he deserves a novel really think so i know so he's a

fantastic character listen to me while you're over there you know uh getting

clap from all those French [ __ ] do me a favor i want you to write about it i

want Holden Caulfield to be your best friend and listen to me stay alive all

right stay alive no matter what

after I enlisted in the army I bounced from base to base until they finally shipped me off to

England i knew army food would be bad but they promised us a steak dinner the night before the big invasion

but I just couldn't start the Cfield novel that's why I kept sending you short stories for the anthology I was

writing instead i had never written anything so personal

that's why he was a first person character i didn't want to begin Holden's story because I was scared I

wouldn't live long enough to finish it

hey Jerry how's your girlfriend wish they'd all just forget about it come on J first guy to ever get dumped

on the front page of a newspaper in the country it's pretty nuts chaplain's old enough to be her father now what can I

say everyone loves that little [ __ ] in a scandal that has rocked the nation

the biggest movie star in the world Charlie Chaplan has married the 18-year-old daughter of famed playwright

Eugene O'Neal who has declared that she has finally met her true love

[Music]

it's just more words

holden Cfield she said "It's marvelous to see you it's been ages." She had one

of those very loud embarrassing voices when you met her somewhere she got away with it because she was so damn

good-looking but it always gave me a pain in the ass "it's swell to see you," I said i meant it too "how are you

anyway?" "Grand," she said if there's one word I hate it's grand it's so phony

[Music]

this is a momentous hour in world history d-day the men of General Dwight

D eisenhower are fighting their way up the beaches in fire and blood into the fortress of Nazi Europe casualties in

this mammoth operation may reach a dreadful toll

i had stormed Normandy with six chapters in my bag and I'd be lying if I didn't tell you Holdm got me through some rough

spells he gave me something to focus on when things weren't going so

hot that's one of the things I loved most about writing your mind keeps on working on

your stories whether you've got a pen or a gun in your hand it just never stops creating

you okay you got to be okay

[Applause]

i did everything I could to keep on writing i really

did no pen no typewriter to hell with

them i kept on telling Holden's story even if it was only to myself [ __ ] it

pneumonia and then I'd probably

die millions of

checks jerry jerry you're going to be all right okay

just got to warm up a bit okay come on here we go hey hey hey just got to warm up okay

hey about the socks your mom sent you it's a smart lady all right take them

keep you warm all right okay i'm not going anywhere all right

heat

heat heat

jerry can you hear me jerry I want you to look at me could

you look at me Jerry jerry squeeze my hand if you can hear me

i'm truly sorry you wasted all that time on me but you got to believe me when I

tell you I have nothing left to say about Holden Cfield or anything else

for that matter sincerely yours Jerry Salinger

he's here is he still crazy welcome home Sunny all the way home from Germany

uh this is my wife

Sylvia this is my mom

Miriam that's my sister Darus that's my father's

song look tell me you were uh you were interrogating Nazis after the war yeah

we were trying to find out where other Nazis were hiding that sounds exciting

so Sylvia what do you do she's a rodeo clown

it's a joke i'm an opthalmologist by trade the

father when did you two get married about 6 months ago oh that's when you

stopped responding to our letters

what i haven't written a word in over a year well I hope you're going to write stories again

maybe after Wade publishes the Young Folks anthology it's the only reason why I came

home and to see all of you

most of these I wrote before I went to Europe a few I wrote during the war what about the Cfield novel where are you

with that how about halfway what do you think you're going to finish

just I can't work on it anymore why not it brings back too many memories i want

to forget it all well have you written anything since you got

back i tried just can't do it

well we'll publish your anthology and I'll bet before long you'll be back at that typewriter

hope so i'm not getting enough sleep so it's hard to concentrate and sometimes I I

wake up and I'm I'm screaming no these are all very common postwar symptoms Jerry

okay and have you been painting at all

no no cuz I'm not a painter i'm a writer yes yes of

course writer no with the nightmares I just

Sometimes I have flashbacks at the camps during the day too it's almost like I'm there i can

smell is there anything I can do for that no these are all very common occurrences from soldiers returning from

combat it's just a face yeah

hey hello so you've been drinking no no i haven't

touched a drop in years oh that's right you joined a temperance union joined

they started i also joined a divorce union well kind of more enulled if you want to

get technical about it what happened something that never should have i think she might be a Nazi

are you serious maybe

well now see that is something you should write about have you started up again no

um you know I think once the anthology is published that'll hopefully get me going again

what the anthologies just turned out to be a little more complicated than I

thought how well you know we don't publish on our own we don't have the money for it so we have this

relationship with Lip and Cod to finance our long form and they've rejected the book they they

don't want to publish it so you're not going to publish folks it's me Jerry it's them i I nearly ended the

relationship with that you nearly ended the relationship how nearly brave of you that must have been come on no no no

that means a lot to me i mean you know that was the only reason I came back from Germany you knew how much it meant to me how much I needed that at least it

brought you home no I didn't want to come home jerry I'm sorry there's nothing I can do all right i went to war

with these guys over this war war war you went to war with these guys

that was a bad choice of words i didn't mean I landed on D i understand no no no no you have no idea i'm only alive

because we missed our landing by a thousand yards but I saw them all get killed i saw every single one of them get killed i should be dead too i

shouldn't be here jerry I'm sure no no no you're not don't sit there and tell me how you fought for this you are a

liar you're a goddamn liar and I never want to see you again

Jared

hey mister i had a question for you where do you think the ducks go in

the winter when the pound fridge is over i'm sorry P ain't got no idea

hey you uh you want to smoke yeah thank you hey you want to nip mind

if I do i got a light i think I do

oh [ __ ] hey hey i'm a veteran i'm a veteran

god damn it stop

[Music]

oh [Music]

my god

what are you all doing

i keep having nightmares about the war almost every night sometimes I wake from screaming

you also see it during the day

how do you know before I studied the teachings of Rama Krishna I was a freedom fighter in India against the

British it was the violence I witnessed that led me on the same path that has

led you to me you think the nightmares will ever go away oh

yes but first you must heal from the violence that has been inflicted upon your soul

how right our religion consists of

meditation on the spirit of full consciousness come remove your

shoes this is how we will begin to heal the pain those are very handsome shoes

thank you come

sit very good now close your eyes

is all right won't hurt

you ultimate reality is an allervading

unccreated self-luminous eternal spirit is the consciousness that

animates all conscious beings

i I try to write every day i sit at the typewriter but I can't start what do you

think about when you stare at the blank page that it won't be good that I've

lost my talent so what if you have it

but I shouldn't write you write to show off your talent or to express what's in

your [Music]

heart finally started yesterday good well it wasn't good i mean the writing

was terrible and I only managed one page then what happened

did you enjoy it writing no ripping up the

page [Music]

yeah i ripped up five pages yesterday

sounds like fun well I love what you've done with the place

you're writing again mhm the Cfield novel

uh no no i I tried but Thank you just some short stories I've been working on

then not very good but at least I'm getting pages done well that's why I'm here you remember that story that The

New Yorker was going to publish slight rebellion off Madison my first call for the story well they've been reviewing

all their past submissions from before the war and they are considering publishing it really yes really

i don't know if you remember but they had specific notes you didn't want to take and if you want them to publish it

you're going to have to make their changes oh come on at least hear them

out publishing is everything

well The New Yorker holds a special place in American literature and it's important to us that our stories have a

uniform vision i mean we want the reader to be able to read a story and know that it could only run in The New Yorker well

that's exactly what I don't want you don't want to be published in The New Yorker no no i love The New Yorker i

just don't want to write stories like everyone else you know the war hero doesn't always get a

parade sometimes he blows his head off i want to create a new form of writing a

modern form about modern society in which the pain of our existence is laid

out truthfully for everyone to

see i'll make a deal with you if you try the notes and don't feel they make your

story better then I'll submit your original version i don't want Holden and Sally to end up together that's not what

happens in real life at least not in my life well that's fine it was just a thought we had i thought it was a big

sticking point for you not if you feel that destroys the integrity of the piece look Jerry I'm not trying to take your

story over or write it for you but you have a wonderful voice but you

overexlain i trust that the reader is going to understand you

what do you mean I overexlain

that's better you know it's worked thanks

you're welcome i'll submit it to Harold Ross and the team should take a few weeks to get an

answer i wanted to give you another story I wrote

thought you could help me make it better well shouldn't banana fish be two words

no it has to be one why because two words would make too much sense

dear Jerry I've sent you several letters but you never respond i hope you believe

me when I tell you there was nothing I could do i begged them to publish it i really did and now I'm begging for your

forgiveness because I I truly I've read several of your stories and

they're very impressive for someone your age my writing changed a lot after the war

the war changed a lot of writers the ones that survived

jerry I brought you here today because I wanted to tell you personally that The New Yorker would like to publish

you which story all of

them all of them i would like to offer you a first rejection contract we'll pay you a

handsome yearly salary and in return we get to read all of your stories first the ones we don't publish you're free to

sell to other magazines it's the most prestigious contract in American publishing

congratulations Jerry you did it

[Music]

i present Jerry Salinger Peggy New Yorker's incipient great man

of American letters jerry if I may I am also a writer fantastic i thought Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut was marvelous i'm

simply dying for your next story when Seymour Glass shot himself you weren't just talking about the war you were

talking about the bgeoa capitalist infrastructure of modern butoracy or maybe there was the war but it's really

up to the reader jerry is in the very beginnings of his first novel and Bill says you may be writing a novel so when

are you going to write a novel well you know there's something I'm working on hopefully it won't be too long let's get a picture oh thank you so much

there we [Music]

go diggling jiggling jiggling jiggling

there's one thing that's been weighing on me a novel I'm trying to wanting to finish but

can't scared if I work in it the nightmares will come back is it about the war no it's about a character I

wrote about during the war he was with me everywhere I went every time you attempt to work on it you feel the war

again you know you never really get this amount of brain flesh out of your

nostrils perhaps finishing this book is the way for you to move on

right there's just so many distractions everywhere and you must remove

distractions well this is it

just a little drafty but the price is

right what are you going to do up here just a little writing

i'll just tell you about this mad man stuff that happened to me such an honor to have you here no I'm sorry for

stopping by unannounced i just wanted to speak to you personally no apologies necessary i I don't know if you remember

but a year ago you sent me the kindness letter about my writing asking if you could publish a book of my short stories

of course i love those stories thank you i just completed my first novel and

um if if if you like uh I'd like you to publish

it i am honored you'd think of me when can I read it

you know the pages of this book were with me when I stormed the beaches of

Normandy i wrote them in Hitler's death camps and in the hospital where I could barely remember my own

name i don't think I'd be alive if it wasn't for this book

i'm really flattered Jerry is it a war story

no it's about a troubled kid during the Christmas holidays

well I know you want us to give you some helpful notes on the novel but the truth is we both think it has a lot of

problems i just don't buy Hold him that's the whole book well he seems

phony as he would like to say he's so negative all the time he just doesn't feel real and your style is too writer

conscious i feel you're trying to be clever on almost every page did you at least think it was funny

yes but in a way where I feel the writer's being too witty you're making a real name for yourself and I would hate

for this book to throw that goodwill away the best note I can give you is to just put it in a drawer for a year or

two is that bad i'm afraid it is

i loved it Jerry i really did thank God but these things are never

easy what do you mean my boss didn't get it but I fought for

it and he said he'd be willing to publish if you did a major rewrite

what does he want rewritten he doesn't understand Holden what makes him tick and I got to

admit I found him confusing at times he hates everything and he he's always so

sarcastic is Is Holden supposed to be crazy

are you okay jerry

jerry no i've thought about it and I can't do a rewrite i won't do it i'm not going to change a word holden would never approve you might not have to what

do you mean look I didn't tell you I was going to do this but I sent it to one person just to test the waters who john

Woodburn and Little Brown okay well how was the water hot very hot he He liked

it no he loved it he thinks it's an American masterpiece he He He said masterpiece that's what he said and wait

you told him I wouldn't make any changes yes i told him that that could be a

problem and he still wants to meet with you to discuss marketing and distribution hold on marketing we also

love this one for the cover holden in his red hunting hat

i hate it so what's wrong with this one the reader

needs to imagine for themselves what they want Holden to look like what if we just use it for the galleys i think it

would really No I don't want any galleys sent out advanced copies are crucial for

publicity purposes i don't want any publicity you don't want any publicity

no I don't care if it's successful i just want it to be good the less

attention the book gets the more the story will affect people it won't affect anyone if they don't read it

well I'm not doing press this isn't about me or publicity or

reviews this is about Holden

jerry do you want us to publish this book or merely to print it because if

you just want a printer then I suggest you type up a few hundred copies and send them out yourself

fine you can send out galleys for advanced reviews thank you Jerry that's very generous of

you hey but I don't want to read a single review so don't send them to me okay

[Music] receiving Rapturous reviews the debut novel of JB Salinger is being heralded

as the breakout book of the year

[Music]

and do you feel peace

excuse me Mr salinger excuse

me um I I I just wanted to talk to you

i feel like I'm holding

Cfield and I just I need to talk to you about the

book about Holden everything I have to say I wrote in the book

how do you know so much about me i

don't It's It's just a work of fiction i'm I'm just a fiction writer

hey thank you for saying hello but I'm

holding I'm holding Caulfield

you're phoning like everyone else

sorry i want to wake you no no no you

didn't i was always worried you wouldn't be able to pay your rent now I got to worry about deranged fans attacking you

should take your photo of all those book covers i never knew you worried at all

since the day you were

born when I was a boy I I wanted to be a

pianist loved playing so much but my father was a rabbi so he just

couldn't understand how I I would be able to support myself and he he forced me to stop

playing i was upset but I I knew he loved me he just he just wanted me to be

okay

i never even heard you play no

but I was good

so you're Holden Cfield

right yeah your mother was right you

are very talented

thank you now you just got to write another

one even better no

pressure good night honey

i hear people talking about Catcher everywhere I go everyone just loves it

i'm so excited to read your next book is your steak okay yeah I'm just not

very hungry let's go get you something else maybe oh excuse me

you okay yeah I'm fine

you know there's a dinner party going on in there yeah I'm just a little uncomfortable

right now it's just a

book i didn't even like it that much if you want to know the truth

what didn't you like about it it was just like all those other phony

books a lot of whining and the ending was a lousy bore

you shouldn't take yourself so seriously you know it's not like you're the first guy to write a hitbook

wait wait can I get your phone number

got a pen

i got some paper too what's your name

claire claire you're the first person that's ever said they hated it

to your face thank you

you have captured the consciousness of the nation you've tapped into the way many feel and have given a voice to

their pain i can't go home anymore i wrote the book to get over the war now I feel like I'm going crazy all over again

have you not yet learned how to remove distraction

new Hampshire's really beautiful this time of year it's 90 acres mostly woods the

house is modest but very nice there's also a small bunker that can be converted to a guest house or an office

whatever you want i think you'll be really happy here

i hope so

an artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection and on his own terms not

anyone else's excuse me Mr salinger since you write about teenagers I thought you might be interested in

running a youth group i think the kids would love it i would too great yeah

they're right over here yet a real artist I've noticed will survive anything

jerry you invite me all the way out here and

then walk away as soon as you see me no I'm sorry i thought you were one of those crazed Cfield fans you should be

so lucky you are beautiful

what do you think it's just as you said in your letters it's like the city without the

city do you hate it i grew up in foster homes Jerry as long as your hair is

perfect her skin was lovely and her features were delicate no one could have

missed saying that she was a first class beauty he's overjoyed with his new

spiritual life and he goes on saying his prayer and telling everyone he happens to meet how to say it too

hey Mr salinger i know you're very private but I I was wondering if I could interview

you for my school newspaper they want me to write an article about someone I admire and you'd be perfect

i stopped doing interviews a while ago

but for a school paper I can certainly make an

J.D.塞林格（Jerome David Salinger）是一位極具神秘色彩的美國作家，以其開創性的小說《麥田裏的守望者》（1951年）而聞名。他於1919年1月1日出生於紐約市，其一生與他筆下人物一樣引人入勝卻又深藏不露。

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塞林格最著名的角色霍爾頓·考爾菲爾德（Holden Caulfield）成為文化偶像，象征著青少年的焦慮、疏離與反叛。《麥田裏的守望者》深深打動了戰後美國的年輕一代，至今已在全球售出數千萬冊。盡管廣受讚譽，該小說也因其語言與主題曾多次遭遇禁令。

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Rebel in the Rye (2017)

Director: Danny Strong
Based on: J.D. Salinger: A Life by Kenneth Slawenski
Cast:
- Nicholas Hoult as J.D. Salinger
- Zoey Deutch as Oona O'Neill
- Kevin Spacey as Whit Burnett
- Sarah Paulson as Dorothy Olding
- Brian d'Arcy James, Victor Garber, Hope Davis, Lucy Boynton
Synopsis: This biographical drama delves into Salinger's formative years, his experiences during World War II, and the creation of his iconic novel. It portrays his struggles with fame and his eventual retreat from public life. The Guardian+3Vogue+3Wikipedia+3Carol Cassara+4Wikipedia+4IMDb+4Vogue+4Military Wiki+4Wikipedia+4

Rebel in the Rye (2017)
Director: Danny Strong

Based on: J.D. Salinger: A Life by Kenneth Slawenski

Cast:

Nicholas Hoult as J.D. Salinger

Zoey Deutch as Oona O'Neill

Kevin Spacey as Whit Burnett

Sarah Paulson as Dorothy Olding

Brian d'Arcy James, Victor Garber, Hope Davis, Lucy Boynton

Synopsis: This biographical drama delves into Salinger's formative years, his experiences during World War II, and the creation of his iconic novel. It portrays his struggles with fame and his eventual retreat from public life.
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Film: A Genius at War: The Secret Life of a Writer

He was a soldier on the frontlines of World War II, a young man in love with a woman he could never forget, and a writer who changed the world with one book. But behind the fame and success was a secret life no one ever knew. Discover the shocking true story of the man who wrote The Catcher in the Rye. A story of love, loss, war, and the price of greatness.

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J.D. Salinger (Jerome David Salinger) was an enigmatic American writer best known for his groundbreaking 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Born on January 1, 1919, in New York City, he lived a life that was as compelling and guarded as the characters he created.

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Salinger's most famous character, Holden Caulfield, became a cultural icon—representing teenage angst, alienation, and rebellion. The Catcher in the Rye struck a deep chord with post-war American youth and has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. Despite its acclaim, the novel has also faced bans due to its language and themes.

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What many don’t realize is that Salinger served as a counterintelligence officer during World War II, participating in pivotal events including:

The D-Day landings
The Battle of the Bulge
The liberation of Nazi concentration camps

He carried pages of The Catcher in the Rye in his backpack throughout the war. These experiences deeply scarred him and influenced his later writings, shaping themes of spiritual disillusionment, moral ambiguity, and psychological trauma.

? A Love Never Forgotten

During the war, Salinger fell in love with a German woman, Sylvia Welter, whom he married briefly after the war. Their marriage quickly ended, and it’s believed this heartbreak haunted him for years, coloring his exploration of love, identity, and loss.

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After the success of his novel, Salinger retreated from public life, settling in Cornish, New Hampshire, and publishing very little. He became synonymous with literary reclusiveness. While he continued writing privately, he stopped publishing after 1965, fueling speculation and mystique about his unpublished work.

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Salinger was also deeply spiritual, exploring Zen Buddhism, Christian mysticism, and Hindu Vedanta, all of which informed his later, more esoteric stories like those involving the Glass family, especially in Franny and Zooey and Nine Stories.

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He passed away on January 27, 2010, at age 91. His estate has indicated that a trove of unpublished works may eventually be released, which could radically expand how we understand his genius.

Salinger remains a literary legend wrapped in mystery—a soldier-philosopher who gave voice to disaffected youth and then chose silence over fame. His story is one of genius forged in fire, haunted by war, and hidden from the world.

Cast film - A Genius at War: The Secret Life of a Writer?

Certainly! While there isn't a film titled A Genius at War: The Secret Life of a Writer, there are notable films that explore the life of J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye.

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A masterpiece of mental thinking and self-realization. Writing is only one form of art; ask someone who is disabled, and they may have something to give, but they cannot. The same goes for sexuality, the pain of being Gay, kinky, or other painful choices. Ask the rich about the pain of Money and the battle of rejection that comes with it.

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塞林格 when that voice overwhelms the story it becomes an expression more of your ego

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