However, its conflict produced another interesting debate into the rights of the private, and the “rights” of the public, in pursuing celebrities, especially atypical tabloid subjects, like writers.

The film explored the mystery and mythology of the writer’s disappearance from the elite literary social scene to which he belonged, and has been markedly criticized for capitalizing on invasion of the author’s privacy. This rejection of cultural norms by such a celebrated author became fodder for a documentary released this past fall titled Salinger. This was because he vowed to never let anyone mishandle his stories while he was still alive. Despite the fact that he stopped publishing his writing long before his death, he actually kept producing more material until the very end of his life, leaving all of his work in storage, and his rights to his already published material entrusted to his wife and family. Salinger was an enigmatic and secretive author well-known for his seclusion and withdrawal from society, even though fans of his books still clamored for more of his work. Movie poster for the documentary Salinger via IMDB After a mental breakdown compounded with a religious obsession renders Franny sick, and others sick with worry for her, Zooey attempts to strike some sense into his sister with only the kind of brotherly compassion and commiseration that he can bestow. Salinger, of Catcher in the Rye fame, and both originally appeared in installments in The New Yorker – the former in 1955, and the latter, two years later – before being published together in novel form in 1961.īoth members of the Glass family – a frequent fixture of Salinger’s writing – Franny is an ambitious and impressionable college student, while Zooey is her brilliant and hardened older brother. How to Add Franny and Zooey to Your Own Wardrobeįranny and Zooey isn’t really a novella so much as a pairing of a short story, titled “Franny,” and a novella in its own right, titled Zooey.

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