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J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

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Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with “cynical adolescent.” Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he’s been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.”
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.
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237 printed pages
Publication year
2013
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  • Karina Bychkovashared an impression5 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🚀Unputdownable

    Это моя любимая и очень важная для меня книга, я читала ее в переводе как минимум три раза, но до оригинала добралась впервые. Мне кажется, что ни Райт-Ковалева, ни Немцов не попали в интонацию Холдена Колфилда. У Райт-Ковалевой сглажены углы, текст же Немцова наоборот слегка истеричный. В общем, это жутко интересно в сравнении.

  • Иванов Алексейshared an impression8 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💞Loved Up

    I feel like I loved that goddamn book
    Maybe if I'v enjoyed much more if read it 5 years ago

  • Fernanda Gonzalez Tapiashared an impression5 years ago

    Maravilloso, una experiencia única de lectura

Quotes

  • Ayunita Xiao Weihas quoted8 years ago
    Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
  • Karina Bychkovahas quoted5 years ago
    You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phony stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they’re mean bastards at heart.
  • Julia Zakharovahas quoted5 years ago
    don’t care if it’s a sad good-by or a bad goodby, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t, you feel even worse.

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