Among the news today we encounter in the death of Jerome David Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye .
The first link to have happened under the eyes is this:
I read with interest the article is more going on than I realize of how the journalism we will reclaim yet another "chocolate filling tasteless"!
After a few biographical traits to attract sufficient to outline the career of the writer, a journalist with hard work focuses Benedictine sull'alone of confidentiality which the author had created around himself, who hid alone journalists, to interviews and, supposedly, to the photos.
Well, it is a picture of him to camp opening article. Not one of the few in which it appears young and smiling, compliant and well prepared before the trip (relegated to the bottom of the page!).
No!
As the caption points out, it is a "famous image stolen from the supermarket."
In other words, Salinger was a famous author, but rather too reserved, so it was necessary to stalk and wait days or even months before, and immersed in the unconscious thoughts, he went to stock up on food ... a stock of biscuits or a packet of coffee, to be able to immortal! What heroism
novel appendix!
Flipping a bit 'the Web is easy to see that this is not an isolated case, but there are many who repeat the same picture, although someone does not dwell too much on the overt "confidentiality", and I would say that with these assumptions is perhaps better.
I speak of "chocolate filling tasteless" because, as too often happened, we are served up a series of information whose only destiny seems to be to fill a page, but when the chips turn out to be meaningless.
And in a sign of respect for the author's desire for confidentiality, the day of his death, we are ready to publish that one picture that he did not want, the one step that is likely to have stolen mandate on a rampage (his expression does not seem well pleased to look !)...
Recite the article:
".. the author has granted very few interviews"
".. very few in fact, over the decades, the information about his writing. And even less about his private life "
" .. did not hesitate to go to court, in the eighties, to prevent the publication of his biography "
This should probably give the measure of what Salinger would have thought in relation to the publication of this picture!
I suppose that this is by insisting on his privacy is not just a trick, the kind that used to Julius Caesar when overplayed his hand in praise the power of a Gallic tribe, only to see a reflection of what strong was the Roman army that the tribe was defeated.
And so, despite the barricades of Salinger, the daring and proud paparazzo managed to win the coveted prize!
But all is not lost!
The article concludes by stating that " Among his other works, among which Raise High the Roof carpenters , The nine stories and Franny and Zooey . All in the name of existential unease.
A discomfort that probably explains the excesses of confidentiality Salinger. that in the era of mass media and popular existences beaten in the newspapers almost takes on a heroic . " The comments are superfluous!
