F. Begbeder, with his inherent desire to shock, defines the genre of his new book “Una & Salinger” as faction, that is, fact plus fi ction. The facts are simple: 1940, New York. 21-year-old aspiring writer Jerry Salinger met 15-year-old Una O'Neill, the daughter of a famous playwright. The idyll did not last long, a few months later the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Salinger went to fight in Europe, and Una decided to try her luck in Hollywood. Having auditioned for a role in Charlie Chaplin's film, she received the main role in his and her life. Salinger fought honestly, then made his way through magazine publications into great literature and finally created his main work - “The Catcher in the Rye.” But Beigbeder is interested not so much in facts as in that magical meeting of heroes, which turned into separation for life and yet became what defines this life.