What's new in Salinger's safe?
NEW YORK - So what is it safe? The death this week by JD Salinger ends one of the most mysterious life of literature and reinforces one of the biggest mysteries: is the author of "The Catcher in the Rye" maintaining a stack of finished products, unpublished manuscripts in a trunk in his house in Cornish , NH? If they are masterpieces of curiosity or random scribblings? And if the publication of their work, the order of the release of the author? The camp is not talking Salinger. No comment said, his literary representative, Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates Inc. No plans for new books Salinger says her publisher, Little, Brown & Co., lawyer Marcia B. Paul Salinger, when the author was sued last year with the Publication of "Catcher stop" result is not in favor of the phone Thursday. His son, Matt Salinger, referred questions about the safe Westberg. Stories about a possible long-term mean Salinger. In 1999, New Hampshire, "said neighbor Jerry Burt, the author had told him that years earlier he had written at least 15 new books in a locked safe at home. A year ago, will save the author's ex-girlfriend Salinger and Joyce Maynard wrote that Salinger to write every day and uses at least two books had been removed. Salinger, who died Wednesday at age 91, began to publish stories in the 1940s and became a sensation in the 1950s after the publication of "Catcher", a novel, the author carefully already helped in almost complete isolation. His latest book, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour," was published in 1963 and his last published work of any kind, the short story "Hapworth 16, 1924," published in The New Yorker in 1965. Jay McInerney, a young star in the 1980s by the novel "Bright Lights, Big City" is not a fan of Hapworth and skeptical about the contents of the safe. "I think there probably are many things, but I'm not sure if this necessarily what we hope it is," McInerney said Thursday. "Hapworth` "was not a tradition or terribly satisfying work of fiction. It was a Monolene Epistola Mad og anger, almost without form or shape. I think that is his later work in this direction. "The author-editor, Gordon Lish, who wrote in the 1970s, an anonymous account that some readers that it has satisfied a genuine Salinger said he was" sure "that good work has been locked in Cornish. Novelist Curtis Sittenfeld, often because of Salinger's novel "Prep," was compared simply enjoy the adventure. "I can not wait to find out," she said. "In this age of shameless self-promotion, it is extraordinary, and so great to think someone who really truly write for the love of writing. "Some of the great literary works were published after the death of the author, and even against the will of the author, whose novels, such as Franz Kafka" The Trial "and" The Castle "which Kafka had asked to be destroyed. Because so little about what was Salinger is so easy to guess. McInernay known, said he had told an old friend who met Salinger and was told that the author was primarily writes about health and nutrition. Lish Salinger told the 1960s, he was still writing about the Glass family, were in the majority of the work presented Salinger. Salinger But newspapers exist only in our dreams as the second volume of Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls", which the Russian author was burning at the end of his life. Salinger Security can also be converted into a version of the novel to The Henry James's Aspern Papers, "in which more letters tell a poet dead ends with her saying is, they were destroyed. Margaret Salinger, daughter of the author, wrote in a memoir published in 2000, JD Salinger had a classification system specific to his papers: A red dot means that the book could be published "as is" when the author died. A blue marker indicates that the manuscript has been amended. "It is a marvelous peace in not publishing," said JD Salinger The New York Times in 1974. "Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I write. I like writing. But I only write for myself and for my own pleasure."