| J.D. Salinger:Bouncing Like Madmen (The Catcher in the Rye) |
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Tuesday, February 06 2007 |
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J.D. Salinger's fiction has explored the spiritual quest more urgently and entertainingly than that of any other major American writer in the last hundred years. Each new generation of adolescents still hears Holden Caulfield speaking of its own restless yearning, and the Glass family remains the semi-neurotic, semi-enlightened foster family of everyone (especially every New Yorker) who has tried to walk the spiritual path. In this series, we will explore all four of Salinger's books, both as literary art and as the mirror of our own crazy enlightenment adventure. Each session will begin with a group meditation, then dive deep into one of the books, with an emphasis on decoding Salinger's powerful symbols of love, despair and spiritual aspiration.
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