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J. D. Salinger: The End of a Life Veiled in Irony and Mystery

By Jonathan Kirsch

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/j_d_salinger_the_end_of_a_life_veiled_in_irony_and_mystery_39100128

What remains after the passing of J.D. Salinger at the age of 91 is what we have possessed all along — a small but superb body of work that has never gone out of style or out of print. Indeed, “The Catcher in the Rye” is so thoroughly and uniquely American in its voice and its concerns that it deserves to be called one of the great American novels. Indeed, the case can be made — and has been made — that the social and cultural turmoil that we call the Counterculture may have begun with Holden Caulfield and his contempt for all that is “phony.”

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