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Janet Malcolm’s opinions

• Franny and Zooey

  I don’t know of any other case where literary characters have aroused such animosity, and where a writer of fiction has been so severely censured for failing to understand the offensiveness of his creations. In fact, Salinger understood the offensiveness of his creations perfectly well.

  Read the full piece at New York Review of Books Janet Malcolm New York Review of Books 2001
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  His novels have all the unpredictability and changeability of mountain weather, and are marked by an almost compulsive disregard for the laws of genre.

  Read the full piece at New York Review of Books Janet Malcolm New York Review of Books 1984