Franny and Zooey

Franny and Zooey ( Franny and Zooey ) is a 1961 book published by JD Salinger. Salinger published in the two 1955 or 1957 resulting stories Franny and Zooey. Both act as almost the entire work narrow Salinger, the fate of individual members of New York Glass family. Already in the year of its appearance, the book reached number one on the bestseller list of the New York Times. The German translation of the book worried Annemarie Böll and Heinrich Boll. Published in 2007 a ​​new translation by Eike Schönfeld, who had previously been Salinger's single ( also first translated by Boll's help) novel The Catcher in the Rye recompiled.

Content

The first part Franny fills only one-fifth of the book, plays within a college of the American east coast (according to John Updike probably Princeton ) and is about a freshman who feels more and more disappointed by the selfishness and hypocrisy of their fellow students. The second, longer part is named after Franny's five years older brother Zooey, an emotionally much abgeklärteren, small linguistic genius, to have had already twelve years old the vocabulary of a spiritual scientist. He is asked by his mother, Bessie, to take care of Franny and find out what is going on with their depressive little nervous breakdown up.

Franny Lane Coutell brings his girlfriend Franny from the station to spend the weekend with her. He plans to jointly attend a football match and then go to a party. First, however, he invites Franny in a posh restaurant. While waiting for the different gears, he tells her of his trial successes and tries to impress them with the fact that his literary work on Flaubert to be published soon. Franny but reacts nervously, barely eats anything, smokes too much and leaves it lacking in the necessary enthusiasm. From Lane to task, it starts the whole college education to question and lanes than to criticize fellow students superficial. Suddenly she is uncomfortable, cold sweat you are on the forehead, and she is afraid to faint. She flees to the bathroom, get a wine attack, but begins again and returns to Lanes table. The the whole thing is puzzling and embarrassing at the same time, but looks especially its beautiful common weekend plan fall into the water. Striving for pity, he asks Franny after the little book that she brought and the title The Way of a Pilgrim bears. Enthusiastically she explains that it's about a Russian wanderer who deplored the Jesus Prayer ( "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner " ) talks, and indeed so intense course and endlessly until it just unconsciously him his breath is, and he believes, as if in a trance, to know God. As Lane dismisses the behavior of the pilgrim as an interesting psychological phenomenon and still completely fascinated by Franny explains that he loved her, she is again bad. She gets up, but breaks down in a swoon, and only wakes up five minutes later in the CEO office again. The story ends with the fact that Franny begins to mutter that Jesus poem, while Lane, very worried about the mysterious behavior of his friend, goes on the street to hail a cab and bring Franny home.

Zooey The continuation of the story of Franny's nervous breakdown takes place two days later. The 25 -year-old Zooey Glass sitting in the bathtub, smokes and reads a four-year -old letter from his big brother and role model to my buddies. His mother Bessie comes to sit on the edge of the bathtub, begins to tell him in detail about their concerns about Franny's depression and can also be carried Zooeys repeated teasing and rude calls to finally disappear and let him take his alone bath, not by dissuade her goal: she wants to convince him that Franny had to see a psychiatrist. Zooey but is strictly against it and wants to take the matter into their own hands. As the little sister responded to his questions about the meaning of the Jesus Prayer and also towards him extremely irritated and dismissive, he resorts to a trick. He withdrew to the former nursery of his big brother back, picks up the phone and calls Franny on. As Buddy and Zooeys voices on the phone are hard to distinguish, it is easy for him to impersonate the ( Franny dear ) older brother Buddy and to give her some advice carefully. And even after Franny has seen through the game after a while, this will not impose upon, but goes on to opens him more and more. As Zooey she finally tells the story of Seymour, her oldest brother, who is loved by all members of the Glass family as a saint (and not just since it several years ago on his honeymoon committed suicide ), and her mysterious of the Council for the art of living reported, Franny tension dissolves completely and they can satisfy crawl into bed and fall asleep happy.