The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just bee...
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The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection.
Lazy in style, full of slang and swear words, it's a novel whose interest and appeal comes from its observations rather than its plot intrigues (in conventional terms, there is hardly any plot at all). Salinger's style creates an effect of conversation, it is as though Holden is speaking to you personally, as though you too have seen through the pretences of the American Dream and are growing up unable to see the point of living in, or contributing to, the society around you.
Written with the clarity of a boy leaving childhood, it deals with society, love, loss, and expectations without ever falling into the clutch of a cliche.
Jerome David Salinger (1919-2010) és un escriptor nordamericà, conegut principalment per la seva novel·la El vigilant en el camp de sègol (1951) i per la seva reclusió solitària. No va publicar cap original des de 1965 i no va concedir cap entrevista des de 1981. És també l'autor del recull Nou contes (Empúries) i de Franny i Zoey (Proa), i de les dues novel.les Pugeu la biga mestra, fusters; seguit de Seymour, una introducció (Edicions 62).
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