The Catcher in the Rye

Hardcover, 240 pages

English language

Published Aug. 13, 2018 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-241-98475-8
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4 stars (12 reviews)

In honour of the centennial of the birth of J.D. Salinger in 1919, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback editions - with artwork and text based on the very first Salinger editions published in the 1950s and 1960s.

'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.'

The first of J. D. Salinger's four books to be published, The Catcher in the Rye is one of the most widely read and beloved of all contemporary American novels.

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El guardián entre el centeno

4 stars

Lo leí con 20 años y tenía ganas de darle otra vuelta para comprobar si es un libro que se disfruta más en la juventud o en la madurez. La verdad es que no me ha quedado claro y quizá lo que ocurre es que no uno de esos libros hechos para ser disfrutados.

Yo no fui un adolescente como Holden Caulfield. No fui rebelde, no ligaba y no tuve ese éxito social compatible con su extrañeza hacia el mundo adulto. Entiendo que hace falta ser como él para identificarse, porque si no lo cierto es que llega a ser un personaje bastante antipático. Es probable que sea un personaje diseñado para caer mal en cualquier caso, ahí está la clave. Es una de esas obras incómodas en las que hay que buscar la reflexión por encima de la identificación, aunque hay ciertos rasgos en lo que cualquiera se puede …

A good character study about an annoying kid

4 stars

I wasn't forced to read this in school, and I was curious why all the psychopaths have it as their favorite book.

I still don't know.

It's a good portrait of a spoiled kid with some mental illness. After, I read some thought PTSD, and that sounds about right. It's like talking to a 17 yr old, but the message is strong. Worth reading.

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Subjects

  • Fiction, coming of age
  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Caulfield, holden (fictitious character), fiction
  • New york (n.y.), fiction