Be careful with this book please do not let the title fool quickly! This is, by no means a pompous test or an exercise in style of "literary" passion for scholars, which will leave the vast majority of players on the floor. Far from it! Salinger is a pretext: it is the year experienced by the author is at the heart of this story of life, which is not a novel but a kind of narrative, autofiction whose sincerity is one of essential characteristics. Story of the past year by the author to the Agency, its house of New York edition, living in the megalopolis in conditions far from normal middle-class, the author gives a gallery of characters and situations both anchored in real quite palpable, and universal in the initiation of writing and the quest for a mysterious master. I loved these pages, which devour with pleasure.