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Ο συγγραφέας του «Φύλακα στη Σίκαλη», που δεν έγραψε άλλο μυθιστόρημα και εξακολουθεί να ζει απομονωμένος χωρίς να δίνει ποτέ συνεντεύξεις ή να βγαίνει φωτογραφία (και χωρίς να έχει εκδόσει τίποτα εδώ και 50 χρόνια), είχε γενέθλια τις προάλλες, και οι New York Times έγραψαν διάφορα ενδιαφέροντα.

So what has Mr. Salinger been doing for the last 40 years? The question obsesses Salingerologists, of whom there are still a great many, and there are all kinds of theories. He hasn’t written a word. Or he writes all the time and, like Gogol at the end of his life, burns the manuscripts. Or he has volumes and volumes just waiting to be published posthumously. Joyce Maynard, who lived with Mr. Salinger in the early ’70s, wrote in a 1998 memoir that she had seen shelves of notebooks devoted to the Glass family and believed there were at least two new novels locked away in a safe.

Να πώς ήταν το 1951: