The Catcher in the Rye

Paperback, 288 pages

Langue : English

Publié 4 janvier 2001 par Back Bay Books.

ISBN :
978-0-316-76917-4
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Numéro OCLC :
422167144

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Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.

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J'ai enfin lu ce classique de la littérature américaine et je comprends pourquoi il fascine autant depuis des décennies. C'est assurément une réussite, même si le silence médiatique de son auteur a sans doute également joué beaucoup dans son statut d'oeuvre culte.

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The question about giving out your opinion about The Catcher In The Rye is that you feel like everything that you have to say has already been said by everyone else.
But the truth is that human experience (like opinions) are most of the times different inspite of similar. And that's what I believe is the biggest trumph of this book.
I must confess: I was hatting it in the first pages. It was looking like a pointless and superficial narration. I won't say it isn't. But I continued and started to believe there was more to it. Holden's complex personality reflecting the fight he was enduring with his growth and the contradictions he was becoming aware of generated not only some empathy with me as some feeling of needing to observe him. Because the representation of this human experience was quite well done in a perspetive of one person …

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