"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, originally published in the January 31, 1948 issue of The New Yorker. It was anthologized in 1949's 55 Short Stories from The New Yorker, as well as in Salinger's 1953 collection, Nine Stories.

Un jour rêvé pour le poisson banane

" Il y avait à l'hôtel quatre-vingt-dix-sept publicistes de New York. Comme ils monopolisaient les lignes interurbaines, la jeune femme du 507 dut patienter de midi à deux heures et demie pour avoir sa communication. Elle ne resta pas pour autant à ne rien faire. Elle lut un article d'une revue féminine de poche intitulée "Le sexe, c'est le paradis ou l'enfer". Elle lava son peigne et sa brosse. Elle enleva une tache sur la jupe de son tailleur beige. Elle déplaça le bouton de sa blouse de chez Saks. Elle fit disparaître deux poils qui venaient de repousser sur son grain de beauté. Lorsque enfin le standard l'appela, elle était assise sur le rebord de la fenêtre et finissait de vernir les ongles de sa main gauche. "

Nouvelles

Le roman, écrit à la première personne, relate la période où Holden Caulfield, expulsé du collège Pencey Preparatory trois jours avant les vacances de Noël, retourne à la maison familiale, à New-York. Il déambulera en ville avant de devoir annoncer la nouvelle à ses parents.Âgé de dix-sept ans, Holden est plein d’incertitudes et d’anxiété, à la recherche de lui-même. Il vit son passage à l'âge adulte et comprend qu'il perd l'innocence de l'enfance. L'une des plus belles images de l'auteur pour exprimer ce passage est lorsque Holden demande au chauffeur de taxi où vont les canards lorsque l'étang gèle. Salinger dans ce roman décrit avec ironie et justesse la société américaine des années 1950.

L'attrape-cœurs

The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergraduate who is becoming disenchanted with the selfishness and inauthenticity she perceives all around her.The novella, Zooey, is named for Zooey Glass, the second-youngest member of the Glass family. As his younger sister, Franny, suffers a spiritual and existential breakdown in her parents' Manhattan living room -- leaving Bessie, her mother, deeply concerned -- Zooey comes to her aid, offering what he thinks is brotherly love, understanding, and words of sage advice.Salinger writes of these works: "FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill."

Franny Et Zooey

Phénomène littéraire sans équivalent depuis les années 50, J. D. Salinger reste le plus mystérieux des écrivains contemporains, et son chef-d’œuvre, "L'attrape-cœurs", roman de l'adolescence le plus lu du monde entier, est l'histoire d'une fugue, celle d'un garçon de la bourgeoisie new-yorkaise chassé de son collège trois jours avant Noël, qui n'ose pas rentrer chez lui et affronter ses parents. Trois jours de vagabondage et d'aventures cocasses, sordides ou émouvantes, d'incertitude et d'anxiété, à la recherche de soi-même et des autres. L'histoire éternelle d'un gosse perdu qui cherche des raisons de vivre dans un monde hostile et corrompu.

L'attrape-coeurs

The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS in 1955, SEYMOUR ? An Introduction in 1959. Whatever their differences in mood or effect, they are both very much concerned with Seymour Glass, who is the main character in my still-uncompleted series about the Glass family. It struck me that they had better be collected together, if not deliberately paired off, in something of a hurry, if I mean them to avoid unduly or undesirably close contact with new material in the series. There is only my word for it, granted, but I have several new Glass stories coming along ? waxing, dilating ? each in its own way, but I suspect the less said about them, in mixed company, the better. Oddly, the joys and satisfactions of working on the Glass family peculiarly increase and deepen for me with the years. I can't say why, though. Not, at least, outside the casino proper of my fiction.

Dressez haut la poutre maîtresse, charpentiers

Nine Stories (1953) is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor". (Nine Stories is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories.)The stories are:"A Perfect Day for Bananafish""Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut""Just Before the War with the Eskimos""The Laughing Man""Down at the Dinghy""For Esmé – with Love and Squalor""Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes""De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period""Teddy"

The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep. J.D. Salinger's classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.

Un jour rêvé pour le poisson banane

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