Above the rafters, carpenters. Simore - Introduction. Book 4, Salinger J.D.

“Above the rafters, carpenters” - a quote from “epitalam”, a wedding song of the ancient Greek poetess Sappho. On the day of the wedding of the protagonist, Simora Glass, his sister wrote a wash on the bathroom’s mirror: “Above the rafters, carpenters! The groom enters, similar to Areya, above the tallest husbands. ”

Simore Glass is the eldest of the seven brothers and sisters. For those who are little familiar with him, this is a strange, unbalanced person. And only relatives know another Simor - a philosopher, a poet, a deep and subtly feeling.

The story is imbued with the Spirit of Zen Buddhism and Nonconformism and gives a lot to understand the Salinger-one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century.