The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
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Author: J. D. SalingerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1994
ISBN: 014023750X
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Penguin
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Book Review: Great book
Summary: 5 Stars
I remember reading this book some nine years ago and thinking what was all the fuss about it. During that time I was still accquiring my taste but something just didn't sit right with me and Holden. It is interesting (at least to me) that I find this book way better now that I am somewhat older and rather exeperienced in literature.
What seemed than as boring, uninteresting, endless bragging about nothing now revelaed itself as carefully structured novel wich is full of life, sometimes the real life, which lies outside the borders of language, sometimes paper life of imaginary characters but life nevertheless.
I read this first time in translation (Croatian) and it is not possible to say how much is lost in it. This slang of Holden's that came from the mid forties and which I find so peculiar when reading ol' Stan Lee's comic books, really has a function here.
We are able to see struggle in text itself. One can observe everlasting change, one can feel with Holden on empatical level or one can observe Sallingers hand which puts him in solutionless positions and logical inadequacies.
It is not the kind of bildungsroman that you may be accustomed to from German authors. There is no message which must be relayed to the audience. At least no explicit one. Sallinger experiments to extent that it's almost scarry.
Maybe, from the today point of view this book can be viewed as "corny" (to use the word from it) and it may not be able to relate itself to modern audiences which is accustomed to different type of literature. Maybe one can view it as oversimplistic, old, batterd or whatnot.
All that doesn't speak trully for this book. Sallinger's effort to weave the tale (which he is doing extremely well) can be observed on every step. And this observation leads you to interesting readings of this book that are very often overlooked, but they themself make this one a true classic recommendable to all ages, from 7 to 77.
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