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– Incredibly good book. I also thought it was a quite funny and deep book if you read between the lines.
Catcher in the Rye
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.
Les merThe 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.
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Incredibly good book. I also thought it was a quite funny and deep book if you read between the lines.H
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 240
- ISBN
- 9780241950425
- Utgivelsesår
- 2010
- Format
- 18 x 11 cm
Om forfatteren
J. D. Salinger was born in 1919 and died in January 2010. He grew up in New York City and wrote short stories from an early age, but his breakthrough came in 1948 with the publication in the New Yorker of 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'. The Catcher in the Rye was his first and only novel, published in 1951. It remains one of the most translated, taught and reprinted texts, and has sold over 65 million copies worldwide. He went on to write three further, critically acclaimed, best-selling works of fiction:
Franny an
d Zooey, For Esmé - With Love And Squalor and
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour - An Introduction. Salinger continued to write throughout his life and left behind a large body of unpublished work.
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– J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" is a classic of modern literature, and is one of the most universal novels I can think of; it has something that everyone can identify with, and is as a result hilarious and often disturbing! The novel revolves around a young man named Holden Caulfield, who is absolutely confused through his own existential discontent, he is at odds with the world, and finds it impossible to fit in or find his way. This is a novel explaining and researching the difficulties of becoming a young adult, and it's of a plot and characters that I believe will appeal to young readers, perhaps making sense of the challenge of being a teenager and young adult. "The Catcher in the Rye" is truly a novel worth being called a classic! The writing is engaging, the characters as well! Well worth a read!
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– Holden Caulfield er 17 år og alene i New York. Etter å ha blitt kastet ut av kostskolen sin tre dager før juleferien, setter han ut på en ensom vandring i byen, for å slå ihjel dagene før han omsider vender hjem. Han forteller, med en 17-årings slang og flyktige tankegang, om sitt hat til alt og alle, om hvor kjedelig og idiotisk alt er, og om de få han faktisk liker her i verden; sin lillesøster og sin avdøde storebror. Holden prøver å være eldre enn han faktisk er, og tilbringer dagene med å bestille drinker, røyke og sjekke opp eldre damer. Boken er skrevet i jeg-form, og det er lett å kjenne seg igjen i fortellerpersonens litt umodne, pubertale følelser. Den er særdeles velskrevet og realistisk, men personlig synes jeg den rett og slett ble litt langtekkelig; det var altfor mye av det samme - og veldig lite handling. En overvurdert klassiker, etter min mening.
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– Holden Caulfield er seksten og blir kastet ut fra en fejrde skole. Han tar inn på et hotell i New York, og gjennom de få dagene får vi vite hvem han er og hva han tenker. Han er en spesiell ung mann, barnslig og deprimert, og hater at alle menneskene rundt ham er så falske. Det eneste mennesket han føler han kan stole på er lillesøsteren Phoebe, og sin avdøde lillebror Allie, som har hatt mer å si for Holdens liv enn han vil innrømme selv.
Dette er en av de beste bøkene jeg har lest, og jeg synes det er så rart at den ikke er mer kjent i Norge. Den er helt annerledes enn alle andre bøker jeg noensinne har lest, og jeg tror mange unge i dag kan kjenne seg igjen i denne.
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