Above the rafters, carpenters. Simore: Introduction, Salinger J.D.

Annotation to the turnover of the title.

“Above the rafters, carpenters,” - a quote from “epithalam”, a wedding song of the ancient Greek poetess Sappho.

On the wedding day of the protagonist, Simora Glass, his sister wrote a wash on the bathroom mirror: “Above the rafters, carpenters! The groom enters, similar to Areya, above the tallest husbands. ”

Simore Glass - 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 Slinger-one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century.