![]() ![]() It doesn't lean on a familiar plot structure (adventures of a runaway boy, as in "The Catcher in the Rye"), though it has, instead, a fading sort of timeliness "Franny and Zooey" is better than anything Mr. ![]() Salinger-including the most copious use of italics since Queen Victoria's letters. They have a do-it-yourself kit of phrase-turning and fretwork in any book by Mr. It was obviously irresistible to many members of a new postwar generation thrashing around in search of new attitudes. I have been reading imitations of it dutifully for ten years. He became a celebrity in 1951, when he published "The Catcher in the Rye." Thereafter he cultivated personal obscurity with formidable zeal. Salinger, according to The Oxford Companion to American Literature, was born in 1919. The story of their fabulous adventures continues today-for those who still observe publication dates-in "Franny and Zooey," perhaps the best book by the foremost stylist of his generation. In Kafka's dark wold, full of high spirits and low boiling points. Salinger's stories are always tap dancing expertly on one another's nerves. SeptemBooks of The Times By CHARLES POORE ![]()
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